I played a part in a biology experiment 😃

A student placed European dung beetles in a circular arena in the URANIA-Planetarium in Potsdam, and recorded the paths they walked under four different light conditions (no stars, stars, stars + Milky Way, and the previous condition with an additional lamp). It's to some extent a replication of Marie Dacke's famous paper, but with a different species of dung beetle (that doesn't roll dung balls).

Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1… #LightPollution #Ecology #Beetles

#Holland

Climate panel calls for action on food waste and train tickets

A citizens' climate panel has presented the cabinet and parliament with a package of measures that could cut greenhouse gas emissions by between 4% and 12%

dutchnews.nl/2025/12/climate-p…

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Climate panel calls for action on food waste and train tickets - DutchNews.nl

A citizens’ climate panel has presented the cabinet and parliament with a package of measures that could cut greenhouse gas emissions by between 4% and 12%, according to an assessment by research bureau CE Delft.

^{Robin Pascoe (DutchNews.nl)}

#Antarctica

Antarctica, long considered a remote and isolated region, is now showing signs of emerging diseases. Migratory birds and rising temperatures are introducing pathogens into previously untouched ecosystems. This study highlights the spread of H5N1 bird flu among seals and other animals. It underscores the urgent need for monitoring and early-warning systems to protect wildlife

moneycontrol.com/science/h5n1-…

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ecology #environment #climate

Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it

popsci.com/technology/cat-vide… @popsci.com.tr

#ecology
#biodiversity
#science

Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it

Cat videos aren’t just funny, they fuel the growing field of iEcology.

^{Mack DeGeurin (Popular Science)}

#Introduction

Hello everyone,

My name is Karine Gadré. I am a trained #astronomer with a particular interest in our #environment and the actions we humans can take to preserve and even restore #ecosystems.

On this news feed, I invite you to share short texts, photographs, naturalist illustrations, and video clips that reflect our #observations and #actions in favor of the environment.

See you soon on this news feed!😎

#ecology #fauna #flora #earth #photography #Nature #naturephotography

les murmurations d'autoroute

Sam Youkilis, photographe et vidéaste né à New York et installé en Italie
#birds #car #mobility #ecology

"Despite bureaucratic and financial challenges, environmentalists in #Germany and #Poland are joining forces to protect the biodiverse #Oder River ecosystem." A story telling what #cooperation and people's #activism can achieve in situations when politicians fail:
dw.com/en/german-polish-activi…

#ecosystem #ecology #environment #river #biodiversity #water #pollution #climateCrisis

German, Polish activists fight to get the Oder River clean

Despite bureaucratic and financial challenges, environmentalists in Germany and Poland are joining forces to protect the biodiverse Oder River ecosystem.

^{Marta Thor (Deutsche Welle)}

I love how delightfully diabolical evolution can be.

A new article in Annual Review of Entomology is about the plant pathogens that are vectored between plants by herbivorous insects. These plant pathogens invade plant tissues and make plants sick. To get between plants they hitch a ride inside plant-feeding insects. The healthier the insect the more plants it will feed on.

So, what do the microbes do? They manufacture chemicals that make their insect hosts stronger. Several ways that they do this have been discovered "from balancing a nutritionally deficient diet" to "upgrading its defensive biochemistry against natural enemies."

Wild!

"Plant Pathogens Moonlighting as Beneficial Insect Symbionts" by
Aileen Berasategui and Hassan Salem

annualreviews.org/content/jour…

#entomology #SpeciesInteractions #mutualism #ecology #PlantPathogens #Herbivory #insects

Plant Pathogens Moonlighting as Beneficial Insect Symbionts

Herbivorous insects can shape the epidemiology of disease in plants by vectoring numerous phytopathogens.

^{Annual Reviews}

I'm one of the crazy people in France who don't heat his #home.

Just removes humidity. Can't afford heating, but I have all stuff to stay warm (clothing, etc)
It can go below 10°C

I know the techniques to sleep with -5°C : goose down #blanket, #wool hat, wool gloves, wool socks
And breath strongly at morning when dressing good clothes!

But in Gaza they don't have all this useful things now. It's an emergency to help them
gaza-verified.org

#winter #energy #ecology #heating #thermometer