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Urban sprawl might not be as harmful to wildlife as previously thought. When biologists compared the diversity of bird populations in natural forests, tree plantations and “exurban” (urban sprawl) areas in Tennessee, they found that tree plantations had substantially less bird population diversity than did native forests and exurban areas, and in some cases, exurban areas had even MORE diversity than native forests.

Researcher David Haskell says, “These findings suggest that urban sprawl is not all bad for wildlife. This turns conventional wisdom about wildlife conservation on its head.”
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We’ve always heard that no two snowflakes are alike. It seems impossible?and it turns out that it IS impossible. Scientists are studying snowflakes because they think they may play an important role in global warming.

Snowflakes are created when snow crystals stick together. In LiveScience.com, Charles Q. Choi quotes cloud physicist Jon Nelson as saying that the number of snow crystals that fall to earth per year is “about 1 followed by 24 zeros.” A cubic foot of snow contains around a billion crystals. With numbers like that, some of those crystals are BOUND to be identical.
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As we’ve reported before, tea has great health benefits?especially green tea. But it turn out that putting milk into tea, as the English and Irish do, destroys these benefits. And green tea may not really be more healthy?it may just seem that way, because people do not drink green tea with milk.
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There has been yet another mysterious ice fall, this time in Florida, and this time it crushed a car. Given the fact that these incidents are now being recorded with such regularity, it seems only a question of before death or injury results from an a block of ice falling from the sky due to global warming. What the local Fox news channel describes as a “refrigerator-sized chunk of ice,” weighing around 50 pounds, fell out of the sky at about 9 a.m. in a town near Tampa and crushed a parked car. As usual, local FAA officials said theywere “unsure” if the ice had fallen from a plane.
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