Landscape
If someone failed to go to the Amazon, Borneo or safari in Kenya last summer, they can also get a taste of the exotic adventure in the city. Interspersed in the architectural details on old buildings, there are, immortalized in stone, examples of our ancestors’ fascination with wildlife. Portals are often topped with an overdoor in low relief, which frequently shows an...
Biodiversity
In the August 2013 issue of ZooKeys, a group of zoologists in the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research centre based in Washington, published information about the discovery of a new animal species belonging to the Procyonidae family, the first predatory mammal found in America in the last 35 years and a true sensation of the twenty-first century zoology. The new mammal was described by its discoverers under the name olinguito Bassaricyon neblina, in accordance with every discoverer’s right to name a new...
Środowisko
Wielka Pacyficzna Plama Śmieci Wraz z zamknięciem klapy śmietnika przestajemy myśleć o wyrzucanych śmieciach, nie znikają one jednak ale zaczynają drugie, mroczne...
