On Monday morning, a Houston TV reporter rescued a man whose car got swept away by the record flooding hitting the city… “When an extreme event occurs one must factor in some role/influence that the underlying changes are exerting on things,” David Robinson, a climatologist at Rutgers University, told CBS last year. “For instance, making a wet spell somewhat wetter, a heat wave longer and more extreme, a drought more extreme and covering a larger geographic area.”
The humble dung beetle is a great ally in the fight against climate change
A life surrounded by and living in crap has its benefits – if you’re a dung beetle. That life is also a boon to livestock, us, and our planet. The dung beetle, who spends its days living, eating, and reproducing in poop, is a master at waste management… Today, many entomologists and farmers have high praise for dung beetles. “They are the good guys,” George Hamilton, PhD and chair of the Department of Entomology at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, said. “We have them here in New Jersey. On farms they aerate and consume decomposing manure. Without them, decomposition wouldn’t happen as quickly as it does now.”