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THE GREAT THINNING. "In Britain, national extinctions were not piling up like ravaged landscapes were. What was happening with wildlife was more subtle: it was a great thinning-out of all populations." https://lnkd.in/esig3Kt View in LinkedIn

HABITAT LOSS AND CLIMATE CHANGE. In the UK "Invertebrate numbers have decreased by 45% on average over a 35 year period in which the human population has doubled." The causes are habitat destruction and global climate disruption. https://lnkd.in/euCx9Fn View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL FERTILIZERS. "In 1909 the Haber-Bosch method to synthesize ammonium nitrate was first demonstrated. NPK fertilizers stimulated the first concerns about industrial agriculture, due to concerns that they came with serious side effects such as soil compaction, soil erosion and declines in overall soil fertility, along with health concerns about toxic chemicals entering the food supply." https://lnkd.in/eFrnZiK View in LinkedIn

INSECT IMPACT. "In the UK alone, scientists noted the areas inhabited by common insects such as beetles, butterflies, bees and wasps saw a 30-60% decline over the past forty years." Similar declines were found in larger animals. https://lnkd.in/euCx9Fn View in LinkedIn

"AGRICULTURAL POISONS. "Poisons for this, poisons for that. Kill off the insects. Kill off the snails. Kill off the wild flowers. Kill off anything that isn't your money-making crop with herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, molluscicides." https://lnkd.in/esig3Kt View in LinkedIn

"AGRICULTURE in the United Kingdom uses 71% of the country's land area, employs 1.5% of its workforce (476,000 people) and contributes 0.62% of its gross value added (£9.9 billion). The UK produces less than 60% of the food it eats." The post-war goal of self-sufficiency has not been met, despite the ravaged countryside. https://lnkd.in/ec-KRkc View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT IN NATURE continues again this weekend with the historic changes to both the British countryside, and the British flora and fauna in just fifty years. Unlike countries like America, where there are vast tracts of undeveloped land, Britain's ecosystems are largely cultivated by farmland. Destroy that, and the rest is history. View in LinkedIn

Beware commercial compost! View in LinkedIn

TUNNEL IN SPACE. "We experimentally show that the magnetic field from a source at one end of the wormhole appears at the other end as an isolated magnetic monopolar field, creating the illusion of a magnetic field propagating through a tunnel outside the 3D space. Practical applications of the results can be envisaged, including medical techniques based on magnetism." https://lnkd.in/erp7QhY View in LinkedIn

WORMHOLE CONSTRUCTED. "Here we construct and experimentally demonstrate a magnetostatic wormhole. Using magnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces, our wormhole transfers the magnetic field from one point in space to another through a path that is magnetically undetectable." https://lnkd.in/erp7QhY View in LinkedIn