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Christianity and the environment
by Carl Wieland
‘What should we think of the Greenhouse Effect?’ AiG speakers often face questions like this on environmental matters. It is helpful, even vital, to view such things from a Biblical perspective. But in a complex world, it may not be possible to give a rigidly ‘for’ or ‘against’ Christian response. Biblical principles are unchanging, but the situations we face, and the information available, are not.
Imagine you are a bureaucrat in 19th-century South America, contemplating the vast, seemingly limitless expanse of the Amazon jungle. Some poor villagers ask you for a permit to clear an acre for their crops. Or you’re the same bureaucrat in the distant future; some rich estate-owner asks if he can clear one of the last remaining stands of Amazonian trees, home of some of the rarest and most beautiful of God’s creatures, because they obstruct the breeze to his mansion. Presumably your response would be different in each case! Read more about Fouling the nest …

suite101.com/article BirdingBy Fred J. Kane Hirundo pyrrhonota Vieillot The Cliff Swallows usually come into view in early days of May. In summer they stay only in the surrounding area of their usual nesting settlements. The number of this birds breeding in the provinces seems to have declined. Birders see small numbers after the month of […]

.americanartifacts.com Richard & Diane Van Vleck – Personal Pages Barn swallow colony sites are frequently destroyed when old buildings are demolished or sold to new owners, who wish to close them up. Attracting swallows to buildings where they will be allowed to nest has been simply a matter of opening a door or window, perhaps, […]

.americanartifacts.com Richard & Diane Van Vleck – Personal Pages Barn swallow colony sites are frequently destroyed when old buildings are demolished or sold to new owners, who wish to close them up. Attracting swallows to buildings where they will be allowed to nest has been simply a matter of opening a door or window, perhaps, […]

hkfsta.com.hk/articles Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shun Wan CHAN Abstract: Edible bird’s nest is one of the widely used health foods in Chinese communities. The market generated by it is increasing because it exhibits a lot of beneficial effects to human beings. For its high market value, fake […]

wildasia.net contributed by Reza Azmi Gomantong Hill is the largest limestone outcrop in the Lower Kinabatangan area, and contains at least nine caves. For centuries, the Gomantong Caves have been renowned for the valuable edible birds’ nests made by two of the four species of swiftlets that roost in the caves. During the harvesting months, […]

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This month’s fungus is another common inhabitant of bark or wood mulch. Although less than a centimeter in diameter, Cyathus striatus often grows in huge clusters, thus making them easily visible, even from some distance. They’re cute little fungi, almost always found wherever there is wood, as long as you look hard enough. The common name “bird’s nest fungus” should be obvious to anyone looking at the small mass of “eggs” within the small “nests” or cups of the fruiting bodies. The “eggs” in the nest contain the basidiospores within them. These eggs (technically called peridioles) are actually analogous to tiny puffballs (like Lycoperdon or Calvatia gigantea) in that they contain the basidiospores inside of them. The basidiospores are borne on small basidia that line the small chambers inside of the eggs. However, the spores are not forcibly ejected from the basidia as they are in Agaricus, Amanita, Boletus, and almost all of the mushroom formers.
Read more about Cyathus striatus, one of the bird's nest fungi …

Driving along, I glanced over and saw a bird’s nest. Woven into the tangle of a dense roadside shrub, it stood out because nature had placed a large snow blob upon it. The nest appeared baseball-sized, maybe a cardinal or catbird’s in light of its shrubby location. Seeing it inspired me to contemplate nests. Every […]

Friday March 24, 2014 Peace Country Sun, Canada – Mar 24, 2014 Peace Country Sun — While waiting for the spring yard work to start, I try to get out and clean my old bird boxes and even put up a few new ones. Boxes attract birds that normally nest in tree holes, often those left behind by woodpeckers. […]

The Jersey Journal Friday, March 24, 2014 BY JENNIFER MOSSCROP JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Spring is in the air – well, almost – and for its 10th year, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission will install 500 tree swallow nest boxes in the Meadowlands in an attempt to keep the little metallic blue and white birds in […]