VIDEO: The Insane Biology of The Octopus
Great video on the biology of the Octopus! Quick and straight to the point by Real Science! Super smart animals! Read this recent article how an octopus outsmarts humans in experiments.
VIDEO: Sustainable Travel – Introducing Iceland
Start exploring Iceland with this video guide to getting around, when to go and the top things to do while you’re there.
What’s the biggest group of animals ever recorded on Earth?
Answering this question takes us to some very interesting places — back into the past, up into the sky, down into the ocean and sweeping across desert plains. It offers magnificent proof of the abundance of animal life on Earth, but it also points to humanity’s role in […]
VIDEO: World’s Best Eco-Friendly Hotels – Top 10 Best Eco-friendly Hotels in the World
World’s Best Eco-Friendly Hotels – Top 10 Best Eco-friendly Hotels in the World Come with us on a journey to the world’s best eco-friendly hotels! Take a break and relax guilt-free at these top 10 best eco-friendly hotels in the world. Be sure to watch all the way […]
Yukon River’s winter waters teeming with chinook salmon
Chinook salmon spend about a year and half in freshwater before making the journey to the ocean. While chinook salmon tend to get the most attention during their epic spawning runs in the summer, Yukon’s waters are teeming with the fish year-round — including during the winter. In […]
VIDEO: One Of The World’s Most Sustainable Hotels – EcoCamp Patagonia
EcoCamp Patagonia (www.ecocamp.travel) is one of the world’s most sustainable hotels. Located in Torres del Paine National Park (Southern Chile), it is also the world’s first geodesic hotel and the 1st fully sustainable hotel south of the Amazon. Discover how the hotel uses revolutionary design and techniques to […]
Humpback whale songs provide insight to population changes
Approximately 8,000-12,000 of the North Pacific humpback whale stock visits the shallow waters of the Hawaiian Islands seasonally to breed. During this time, mature males produce an elaborate acoustic display known as “song,” which becomes the dominant source of ambient underwater sound between December and April. Following reports […]
VIDEO: Sustainable Hotels in Greece
Ecotourism in Greece: With its many islands and thousands-years-old culture, the European country is a popular travel destination. To protect its environment, more and more hotels are offering soft, sustainable tourism. We will show you a hotel that completely banned plastic and a hotel room where cliffside is […]
Kuril-Kamchatka Trench in the Pacific Ocean is a trap for microplastics
Together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Senckenberg scientists Serena Abel and Angelika Brandt examined sediment samples from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench for the presence of microplastics. In their study, which was recently published in Environmental Pollution, the researchers show that 1 […]
VIDEO: Lessons from a thousand years of island sustainability
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Biologist and cultural practitioner Sam Ohu Gon III reveals the true Hawaii, a place much more than beaches and mai tais. In these islands, there is a message for the world. Senior Scientist […]
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