Stimi ta 'Global Speċi Diversità

This recent article in the American Naturalist has taken a second look at some of the famously inflated species estimates, some going high as 100 million (Erwin, 1988). Estimates conducted by the authors indicate that projections above 30 million have probabilities of <0.00001. Their estimated range is more likely to be between 2.5 u . . . → Aqra Aktar: Stimi ta 'Global Speċi Diversità

Jum it-Tajjeb tad-Dinja

With a great message from Bill Nye, the Science Guy.

We need to be conservationists to be sure, preserving wetlands, forests, open spaces and coastlines. We need to reduce our wasteplastic trash and the like. But what we really need is big, new ideas: new ways to distribute and store energy for . . . → Aqra Aktar: Jum it-Tajjeb tad-Dinja

Off b'rashom!

(kreditu tar-ritratti)

The monarchs have started their spring migration north and you might even see one soon (mhux eċċitanti jekk tgħix fi FL jew HI fejn hemm residenti s-sena kollha, jew f'CA fejn hemm spots separati tax-xitwa). Ir-rapporti mill-lokalitajiet tax-xitwa tagħhom fil-Messiku madankollu huma diżastrużi; with possibly the lowest . . . → Aqra Aktar: Off b'rashom!