Why vitaparcours are the perfect pandemic exercise option | MNN
[ad_1] If you run outside and find yourself adding a short stairs routine or pushups against a picnic table during your run — or stretching out using the branch of a favorite tree — you’re already engaging in a version of vitaparcour. Vitaparcours, or parcours as they’re also known, are becoming more popular as people […]
Lost Apple Project hunts for vintage varieties | MNN
[ad_1] We’re familiar with deer hunters, truffle hunters and house hunters, but two retirees in the Pacific Northwest have found something else to track: vintage apples. In their most fruitful season yet, David Benscoter and E.J. Brandt have uncovered 10 apple varieties believed to have been lost. There were once 17,000 apple varieties in North […]
Don’t blame bats for their zoonotic viruses | MNN
[ad_1] Bats have an image problem even when they aren’t linked to a pandemic. Some people resent them for occasionally inhabiting attics and chimneys, for example, while others just typecast them as spooky or dangerous. As the novel coronavirus rampages around the world, however, its suspected link to bats has presented these misunderstood mammals with […]
‘Rebel botanists’ use sidewalk chalk to help people connect with nature | MNN
[ad_1] When Sophie Leguil hits the streets near her home in London, she’s armed with sidewalk chalk. The French ecologist and botanist is one of an army of “rebel botanists” working to identify the little-known and underappreciated wild plants that grow along the sidewalks and curbs of cities throughout Europe. “The idea of the project […]
A suburb in Costa Rica gives citizenship to plants, trees, and bees | MNN
[ad_1] If you happen to be a pollinator, you might want to wing your way to sunny Costa Rica. In fact, Curridabat — a suburb of the capital, San Jose — is pulling out all the stops to make bees, bats, hummingbirds, and butterflies feel at home. They’re even offering citizenship. It’s all part of […]
Tour operators are using their down time to plant new corals in the Great Barrier Reef | MNN
[ad_1] If we’re going to reboot a world shut down by a pandemic, we have to think creatively. For some Australian diving tour operators, that means ferrying marine biologists to the Great Barrier Reef instead of traditional customers. Those teams are using a special technique called coral clipping to plant coral pieces in the areas […]