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domingo, 17 de outubro de 2021
WWF International - "Winning images of wildlife: your weekly round-up 🐼" 2021
Welcome (or welcome back!) to our weekly round-up of news from around the world – picked out just for you.
Welcome (or welcome back!) to our weekly round-up of news from around the world – picked out just for you. From a story on how sharks provide a secret advantage in our efforts to combat the climate crisis to winning images from this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, we've got some great bits for you to read through – and look at – today.
This week, we've included a story on marine snow. We'll tell you now that no, it doesn't snow underwater, but the story is worth reading as it offers an interesting glimpse into how healthy oceans benefit our planet. And healthy forests do this too so read on to learn more. Finally, our last story explores why renewable is doable – as in, we really can move away from harmful fossil fuels to renewable energy. Happy reading!
Tiger sharks are a secret advantage against climate change
Did you know that tiger sharks help to make oceans more resilient to climate change? How? Swimming around the shallow seagrass meadows, which store climate-warming carbon, these sharks serve as crowd-controllers and prevent overgrazing by marine creatures such as turtles or dugongs:
Animals have all sorts of interesting behaviours, with some acting in ways not too different from our own. This year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners give us a closer look at their inner lives:
Reading the words 'marine snow' might make you think of some type of winter wonderland underwater. The reality, however, is pretty exciting too – microscopic algae that transport carbon to the ocean depths. That's great news for our planet:
Forests have a critical role to play in combating climate change. They are large storehouses of carbon, meaning they help capture greenhouse gas emissions which are harmful for people and nature. To protect our planet, we must protect trees:
Ending the planet's dependence on fossil fuels is critical to curbing the climate crisis, but we've got to step up our global efforts to tap into renewable energy. Here are five ways we can speed up the process:
