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While cyanobacteria have been on earth for 2.8 billion years, jelly fish and sturgeon can also be counted amongst the world’s oldest living animal beings. Human beings seem to be at the top of the food chain in the animal kingdom, but some creatures outlast humans in terms of longevity. Animals living on the land, in the air, and in water can last for many decades or even centuries. Most animals people come into contact with on a daily basis, such as dogs and cats, will only live a fraction of their owners’ lives. But under the right circumstances, many animals worldwide can live for many decades or even centuries. If the mortality rate of a species does not increase after maturity, the species does not age and is said to be  biologically immortal . Many examples exist of plants and animals for which the mortality rate actually decreases with age, for all or part of the lifecycle. If the mortality rate remains constant, the rate determines the mean lifespan. The lifespan can b...

Populationis the number of individuals of a particular species in an area. Animal and plant populations depend on many things for survival. Reasons for Animal Population Decreases, Limiting factors like the availability of food, water, and shelter can impact an organism’s population. Poaching, habitat degradation, climate change, invasive species, and diseases threaten to wipe out wildlife in large numbers. In nature, populations of animals and plants are linked together like a puzzle. The pieces of the plant and animal puzzle depend on each other to form a complete picture. If something is wrong with any of the pieces, it impacts the whole puzzle. In the natural world, limiting factors like the availability of food, water, shelter, and space can change animal and plant populations. Other limiting factors, like competition for resources, predation, and disease also impact populations. If any of the limiting factors change, animal and plant populations also change. Some changes may ...

Oil palms threaten about 193 endangered, critically endangered, and vulnerable species globally. How Palm Oil Production Is Endangering Species Rainforest jungle in Borneo, Malaysia, destroyed to make way for oil palm. The International Union for the Conservation for Nature or IUCN warned about the dangers posed by  palm oil  production particularly on wildlife. The international conservation group said that production of the commonly used vegetable oil has decimated the animal and plant life in Indonesia and Malaysia. It also threatens the pristine forests in South America and Africa. IUCN  said  that habitat loss linked to expanding palm oil plantations pushed some of the iconic species, which include tigers, orangutans, and  gibbons  to the brink of extinction. Endangered species are driven into the brink of extinction as a result of their habitats being destroyed for palm oil production. The lucrative crop was found to have harmed 193 animals ...

Global warming will have long-term negative effects on the human race and also adversely affect all other life on earth. Global warming  has brought about possibly irreversable alterations to Earth’s geological, biological and ecological systems. These changes have led to the emergence of large-scale environmental hazards to human health, such as extreme weather, ozone depletion, increased danger of wildland fires, loss of biodiversity, stresses to food-producing systems and the global spread of infectious diseases. In addition, climatic changes are estimated to cause over 150,000 deaths annually. To date, a neglected aspect of the climate change debate, much less research has been conducted on the impacts of climate change on health, food supply, economic growth, migration, security, societal change, and public goods, such as drinking water, than on the geophysical changes related to globa...

According to data from the European Pet Food Industry (FEDIAF), about 26% of EU households own at least one cat. Cats are a popular choice in Europe when it comes to pet ownership, although we don’t see them outside as often as their canine friends. As shown in this statistic, Germany and France are the two countries leading the list of cat owners in the EU, with the former’s narrow win. While Germany also ranks as the top EU country with the  highest number of pet dogs , cats still win in European households. Compared with the cat population in Germany, France and the United Kingdom, countries such as Latvia, Ireland and Estonia had a low number of household felines. Yet across Europe in general, the number of cats has gone up significantly since 2010. In 2017, the EU alone was home to a large population of cats, making them the most preferred pets. Cats are the most popular pets in Europe. According to data from the European Pet Food Industry (FEDIAF), about 26% of...

West Germany and East Germany were divided until the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. At the end of the  Second World War , Germany was divided into four zones of occupation under the control of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union. Berlin, although located within the Soviet zone, was also split amongst the four powers. The American, British and French sectors would form West Berlin and the Soviet sector became East Berlin. The division of Germany and the nature of its occupation had been confirmed by the Allied leaders at the Potsdam Conference, held between 17 July and 2 August 1945. The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 with the purpose of separating East Berlin/East Germany and West Berlin/West Germany. The wall covered a length of 155 km (96.3 mi) and existed for 28 years. The fall of the Berlin Wall occurred on November 9, 1989.The process of German reunification began the following year in 1990. Portions of the Berlin Wall still exists ...

Studies place the threshold altitude for seeing Earth’s curvature at about 35,000 feet. Obviously space, or very high altitude, is your best bet. Unfortunately however, although space tourism is edging ever closer, it’s still not quite here which means that we can rule out that particular vantage point at least for the time being. Until a decade or so ago, Concorde was the next best thing. I took the above photo from a British Airways Concorde at about 58,000 feet on a “trip to nowhere.” It was taken with my brother’s old Pentax SLR and a standard 30mm (ish!) lens. Pressing my nose against the aircraft’s window and gazing from side to side, the curve was even more pronounced than the photo suggests, but these days I have to settle for those pictures to assure myself that BoB is mistaken. Although Concorde no longer flies, there are similar aviation opportunities using retired military fighter aircraft in Moscow. Sadly, they make Concorde look like a bargain which means that most of ...