Tag Archives: wildlife

The Importance of Parasites

Ah, parasites! Those pesky little critters that suck the life out of various other organisms. But guess what, they’re more important than most people think. According to a new study, anywhere between 10% to 30% of the world’s parasitic species might go extinct due to global warming by 2070. This might seriously (and negatively) disrupt the ecosystem via the domino effect:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/parasites-are-going-extinct-heres-why-thats-a-bad-thing-180964808/^

Probably this will add to the list of horrors^ that awaits us thanks to what we’ve done to the planet.

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Four Awesome Photo Series

These four amazing photography sets have showed their goods in front of my eyes in the past few months. After the ensuing visual orgasm, I have decided to share these with you, dear Reader.

Wildlife photographer of the year 2016:

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/09/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2016/499979/^

The most influential images of all time:

http://100photos.time.com/^

20 Awesome modern sculptures:

https://brightside.me/article/17-modern-sculptures-you-will-fall-in-love-with-62655/^

The very best drone photography of 2016:

https://qz.com/868006/drone-photos-dronestagrams-best-images-of-2016/^

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