Category Archives: Wildlife

Death Valley

Death Valley National Park: Death Valley Explorer Episode 1.

“For many, the name Death Valley invokes a sense of fear and danger. In this lowest, hottest and driest place in North America, extreme heat and aridity characterize the landscape. Yet in this land of surprises, life has found a way to thrive.
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Death Valley Explorer is a video podcast series that highlights the rich environmental and heritage landscapes of Death Valley National Park.”

Wildlife in Unlikely Places

Boston Globe: The Big Picture: Wild Chernobyl.

“What happens to the environment when humans disappear? Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Reuters photographer Vasily Fedosenko documented booming populations of wolf, elk and other wildlife in the vast contaminated zone in Belarus and Ukraine. On April 26, 1986, a botched test at the nuclear plant in Ukraine, then a Soviet republic, sent clouds of smouldering radioactive material across large swathes of Europe. Over 100,000 people had to abandon the area permanently, leaving native animals the sole occupants of a cross-border “exclusion zone“ roughly the size of Luxembourg.”

(I thought the English word for Elch was moose, but it turns out that it’s the American species. The European species is called elk.)

Paradies im Garten

Chrismon: Pflanzen und Insekten im Garten helfen: Ich rette die Natur!

“Wenn Sie diesen Text lesen, wollen Sie anschließend Insekten herzen. Und Sie werden mehr hässliche und öde Gärten entdecken als zuvor. Paradies war gestern. Könnte aber wieder kommen. chrismon sagt, wie das geht.”

Einen schönen Stauden- und Präriegarten kann man in Weinheim besichtigen: den Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermannshof nämlich.