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Ecology
The Aral Sea — A Dying Saline Lake
Dec 6th
by herwigphoto.com
East of the Caspian Sea, astride the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, lies an immense saline lake — the Aral Sea. Fed by meltwaters of high glaciers and snowfields in the lofty Hindu Kush, Pamir, and Tien Shan Ranges, the lake endured through thousands of years as an oasis for terrestrial and aquatic wildlife deep in the heart of the central Asian desert.
But in the last 30 years, the Aral Sea, once larger than Lake Huron, has shrunk to a shadow of its former extent. The volume of its waters has decreased by 66 per¬cent, and its salinity has increased from 1 percent to over 3 percent, making it more salty than sea water. Twenty of the 24 fish species native to the lake have disappeared. Its catch of commercial fish, which once supplied 10 percent of the total for the Soviet Union, has dwindled to zero. The deltas of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, which enter the south and east sides of the lake, were islands of great ecological diversity, teeming with fingerling fishes, birds, and their predators. Now only about half of the species of nesting birds remain. Many species of aquatic plants, shrubs, and grasses have vanished. Commercial hunting and trapping have almost ceased. More >
Ecology
Aug 21st
In nature, nothing lives entirely on its own. Instead, living things are influenced by their surroundings as well as by the other species around them. In ecological research, biologists try to find out how individual species fit into the world around them, and how different species interact.
Ecology is a relatively new science, but it has become very important because it helps explain how species normally live in the wild. It also explains how changes made by people, such as farming and deforestation, can upset their way of life. More >
Amazing Water – Is it Conscious?
Jul 13th
Amazing Water Filmmaker and mystic ecologist David Sereda discussed some of the amazing properties of water– it may actually have memory and consciousness, he said. Human beings are mostly made up of water and he suggested that restructured water could have healing properties on their bodies. Following up on the groundbreaking work of Masaru Emoto, Sereda exposed water to the sounds of the sun, and the water crystals changed to a beatific shape. More >
