Palm oil plantations are built over peat swamps in the #leuser ecosystem in Indonesia. This is causing dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere. It is leaving a devastating effect on the animals and people that live there. #cutconflictpalmoil 🌏💚 https://t.co/XiGzLgCWwM
The Leuser ecosystem used to be a gorgeous place where orangutans, rhinos, tigers, and elephants lived together in the wild, but thanks to your products it's turning into a sad, barren area.
What. A. Shame
Lichen is a pioneer species that breaks down rocks into soil that is responsible for the start of a new habitat for organisms. #ecologicalsuccession#lichen 🌳 https://t.co/sKv3BXgl5A
Oscar the mako shark´s last ping was off the coast of Virginia, April 16th at 3:45 am. What have you been up to for the past few months? What have you been eating? Has your environment changed at all? @MakoSharkOscar@OCEARCH 🦈🌊
When there are smaller seeds on the Galápagos Islands, finches with smaller beaks eat more efficiently than finches with larger beaks. So, the next generation of finches would have smaller beaks over larger ones. #naturalselection#darwin
GMO insulin is used for people with Diabetes that cannot produce natural insulin on their own. The insulin used to come from the pancreas from pigs. #insulin#gmo https://t.co/pSkg2lqieM
Colorblindness is a sex-linked trait that is carried in the X chromosome. It is most common in males because they have an X and Y chromosome, versus a female having 2 X chromosomes. #sexlinked