Ecology

According to the Association of British Engineers, artificial trees are the most promising direction of inhibiting climate change. Currently, artificial trees are being studied at Columbia University.

Females of titmouses living near roads and human settlements have to change their sexual habits: they usually prefer low-lying males, but industrial noise makes them deal with those who sing high, but audibly.

The reindeer (six-ray) coral (Acropora palmata) was once the most widespread ripostroitelnik of the Caribbean, but over the past ten years, the population decreased by 90%. This was partly due to the so-called white smallpox, which exposes the skeleton of the coral, killing its soft tissues.

Global warming has unexpected consequences: now the main danger comes from fires in the tundra, writes Paolo Virtuani in a material published on the website of the newspaper Corriere della Sera.