What would continue to be an update in news is of what exist of life on earth, the knowledge of our surroundings and the universe. The International Business Times reported that a NASA space telescope was employed by astronomers in discovering 11 new solar systems containing 26 planets. One of the planetary systems, Kepler-33 hosts 5 planets with heavenly stars. According to the Huffington Post the annual inventory of recently discovered species are some 19,232. Most of the new species are what many people call bugs-insects, there were over nine thousand of them listed. The annual 2011 State of Observed Species report inventory also include 639 sorts of chordates, 1,107 microbes, 1,360 types of fungi, 2,220 plantae (vascular plants) and 13,903 variable invertebrates.
The Huffington Post quoted Arizona state entomologist Quetin Wheeler in saying, “…that 10 million additional plant and animal species await discovery…” Could you imagine yourself uncovering a new species perhaps in a dense, rain forest or a vast woodland? You could only imagine how many more years it would require mankind to learn about these species. Of the more, well-known creatures scientists are still learning about them. For example the Kansas City Star reports that researchers at the University of Minnesota are studying the delicate, yet winter tolerant Midge bug. How could this little creature thrive in bone chilling, mid-western weather? There is so much to be discovered from the life existing around us, What enhanced reason to better care for the planet we live on from environmental abuses.
To note scientists had been alerting the public of an alarming build-up of micro plastics in the oceans threatening plant and marine life living in them. The microplastics are many zillions of tiny bits, traces of plastics also found washing up on shorelines of beaches in India, United States, Britain and Singapore-globally! The major portions of these many floating, bitsy plastics are derived from polyester garments releasing thousands of fibers per machine wash. One indication how this problem returns back to us is that sea creatures eat these micro plastics entering into the food chain. In this realization we are eating our own chemical sewage when consuming seafood which fed on these particles. With increasing awareness of land, air and water pollutions comes warnings that mismanagement of earth resources threatens human life as well as animal and plant life.
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