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TOXIC AIR?

by | J Sep, PM | Air, Blog-en, English

Toxic air?

In the month of September there is a date of great importance and that is that year after year there has been awareness for cleaner air and a bluer sky. This joins the sustainable development goals for climate change in favor. 

An example is when pollution is evident in the sky which indicates that air pollution is very high, this occurs mainly in large cities due to the excess of cars, factories, waste, cigarette smoke and other substances.

Why is it important to reduce air pollution?

Behind this day we seek to inform and raise awareness, because this air is toxic and enters the body of humans and animals through totally invisible particles, damaging organs such as (the heart, lungs and brain)

According to the report of the United Nations Assembly on the Environment “approximately 6.5 million premature deaths” are due to breathing these polluting particles and gases, it is stated that if an aggressive change is not made in the way of consuming and of manufacturing processes in just 30 years this will increase by 50% which means that more and more people, animals and habitats get sick and die.

Is this boiled down to just factories and government?

Clearly these two entities are of great importance and of course an agent of change, but as consumers we have the responsibility to choose well and contribute with small actions that make a difference in a bluer sky. 

How to contribute to the change?

The first and most important thing is that you become aware of the risk we are running and, in addition to that, spread the information so that more and more people contribute to cleaner air. Follow these actions and get a future for you and your children:

Turn off the lights, use light bulbs with low electricity consumption, avoid public transport and the car, opt for the bike or other alternatives, close chemical cleaning products well, use water-based or solvent-free paints, do not spill gasoline, treat to go for more ecological products and practice the 3 R’s.

OUR LIFE DEPENDS ON BEES

by | J May, PM | Air, English, Uncategorized

Did you know that bees not only produce honey, but are also excellent pollinators? Did you also know that the smallest bee in the world measures only 2mm and the largest can measure up to 4cm?

In this article you will know a little more about bees and you will learn that they not only live in hives, but you can find them anywhere in the world, except in Antarctica. And it’s not because they don’t like the cold, but because there are no plants to pollinate and no food for their survival.

You can find different types of bees, wild bees and bees that live in hives, which are about 60,000 approximately, although it sounds quite a significant number does not mean that our pollinator friends are not in danger of extinction. And not only that, but there are also more than 20,000 species of bees and 85% of them do not live in hives and are solitary.

Learn more about bees, why they are endangered and how you can help them in this article.

Why do we depend on bees?

The mission of bees on planet earth is very important, they along with bats, butterflies, hummingbirds, some insects and animals, help in pollination. Thanks to this process, diversity in ecosystems can survive, along with the production and survival of many wild plants and crops.

Simply put, we depend on bees for our food security as 75% of agricultural crops are achieved through pollination.

Their life expectancy depends on the type of feeding. Queen bees can live about 5 years, drones approximately 100 days and worker bees between 45 to 52 days.

Is their survival at risk?

Bees are in danger of extinction due to monocultures, fertilizers, intensive agricultural practices, pesticides, invasive species, diseases such as mites, fungi, viruses, pests and climate change.

 Wild bees are most at risk because they do not live in hives and sometimes tend to be alone. They like to nest in mud structures, snail shells, abandoned nests of other insects and in some plants.

 Some of these bees are very selective with food, over time they have adapted to different plants and a few only feeds on a specific plant. This becomes a problem because humans have intervened by transforming much of the environment for their own convenience, eradicating or moving food that is only found in certain areas, changing it for agricultural industrialization and monocultures.

 

However, honeybees are also at risk, as both have to face several challenges. Let’s find out what they are:

 

– In agronomic practices, there is an improper use of pesticides, intensive cultivation that diminishes the habitat and food of several pollinators.

 

– Climate change has caused chaos in the seasons of some countries, lengthening the time of the seasons. Countries in the tropics are also often affected as nectar and pollen collection is interrupted, affecting the work of bees and damaging their colonies and offspring.

 

– Genetic modification has also affected bees, because it selects them more for honey productivity, reducing their genetic diversity, making them more vulnerable to diseases and parasites, and weakening queen bees.

 

– Varroa mites are the greatest enemies of honey bees, as they adhere to them and weaken them. They are also transmitters of viral diseases, putting the entire hive at risk, but not only this parasite weakens them, there are also predators such as the Asian hornet and other pests that cause diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and fungi.

 

-Destruction of their habitat or change of plant species that are not from the area, leaving the bees without food and homeless.

 

There is hope

It is possible that bees and other pollinators return and grow in numbers, one of the solutions is to stop using toxic products, exercise controls on pesticides, change aggressive crops and be more environmentally friendly by preserving the area’s own crops, adopting an ecological agriculture where the environment is not contaminated with chemicals, considering the health of people and pollinators.

 

Generate a wildflower corridor on agricultural land, preserving the diversity of different bee species.

You can be part of the change

 

Due to human impacts, extinction rates have increased from 100 to 1,000 times higher than normal. About 35% of invertebrate pollinators such as bees and butterflies and 17% of vertebrate pollinators such as bats are globally threatened with extinction.

 

In order to slow the decline in these species you can make a change in your daily life.          – Buy and support farmers who carry out sustainable agricultural practices.

– Help care for and maintain forest ecosystems.

– Share this article with everyone you know who wants to know more about bees.

– Grow different varieties of native plants that bloom at different times of the year.

 

Farmers and beekeepers can modify and reduce the use of pesticides, create natural barriers with local trees and plants, reserve and care for some areas as natural habitat, respect bee nesting sites.

 

We must raise awareness of what is happening to bees and other pollinators, their lives and ours are at stake. Let’s take care of this majestic blue planet and be part of the change.

 

The time is now, raise awareness of their situation by sharing this information on your social networks and in your circle of friends.

 

Don’t forget to follow us on social networks like Instagram and Facebook for more content and ideas to take care of our planet. 

• Bees hives are controlled Advanced superorganisms that can house up to 100,000 individuals.

Bees are at high risk of extinction learn how to help them

by | J Jun, PM | Air, English

The loss of their habitat, climate change, urban sprawl and fires is rapidly affecting the loss of the global bee population.

We can help by planting local and native plants they are much easier to take care of, since they have the appropriate climate for your region and their flowers will give them food. Does not use pesticides.

Facilitates water they needs it to carry out its functions as honey producers. You can have a small fountain, pond, and if you want to help drink, leave some little sticks floating in it.

Approximately 75% of human food crops depend in one way or another on pollination. There are many types of pollinators other than bees, but they are the most efficient insects for this function. If the bees become extinct, they will cause a worldwide food crisis.

Learn a little more about them:

• A hive is structured in three castes: the Queen bee, the workers and the males or drones. It is the only fertile female. Lays fertilized eggs that give rise to worker bees.

• The queen can live between 3 to 6 years, worker bees for 45 to 50 days and drones that are male insects live approximately 3 months

• Bees use the sun as a compass. But when it’s cloudy, there’s a backup: navigating through polarized light, using special photoreceptors to find the Sun’s place in the sky

• When a bee finds a good source of nectar, she returns to her panel to inform her friends of what they found by doing a special dance.

• The worker bees have a lot of work: they secrete wax to build the combs and they are in charge of cleaning the hive, raising the larvae, monitoring the honeycomb, collecting nectar and pollen. This can give us a rough idea of how little a bee can produce individually. What’s more, to get a kilo of pure honey, you need the work of 2,500 bees in full productive season

• Bees do not hibernate. They make like a pineapple-shaped sphere in the center of the panel to efficiently maintain heat and feed on it, they live there until high temperatures return. This is why you never destroy a hive in winter, our friends are resting there.

• Bees hives are controlled Advanced superorganisms that can house up to 100,000 individuals.

The spectacular phenomenon of the Rainbow

by | J Jun, PM | Air, English

Behind all these legends is the meteorological and optical phenomenon, one of the most spectacular in nature. When it rains and light rays enter the water droplets, the light breaks down into colors (such as when light passes through a glass) and changes its direction. When this light reaches the opposite side of the drop, it tries to leave it but a small fraction does not succeed and is reflected backwards, leaving the face of the drop through which it had entered and undergoing a new refraction. Because the walls of the drop are curved, the light is reflected back towards an angle of 138º with respect to the incident light, which means that the rainbow can only be seen when we are facing away from the sun. This decomposition of white light was demonstrated by a prism by Newton.

 

It does not have seven colors. The range of colors in the rainbow is infinite. If it is a continuous spectrum in which one color becomes another, why do we always talk about seven colors? Seven is a number with strong superstition and associated mysticism. And it is that at the end of the 17th century, seven were the known celestial stars, seven the metals used in alchemy, seven the musical notes and seven the days of the week, so it seems logical that Newton designated seven colors to follow the famous law of seven.

There are rainbows without colors: They are the well-known rainbows of fog (Fogbow) that shows the reflection of sunlight due to droplets of water from the fog. The lack of colors is in the smallest size of the water droplets since the colors fade contrary to what happens in larger drops, which act as a prism reflecting sunlight.

Hurricanes Powerful, Relentless and Rearsome hurricanes. Why they are so important to our Planet

by | J Jun, PM | Air, English

The word “hurricane” derives from the Maya word “hurakan”, the name of a creator God, who, according to the Maya, spread his breath through the chaotic waters of the beginning, creating, for that reason, the earth. These form in the open sea of the equatorial zone, feed on heat and low atmospheric pressure.

The benefit and importance for our planet and for other living beings is rarely mentioned due to material damages and human lives lost but for the planet they form an important role as climate regulators and are activated when the planet detects unusual changes in temperature and pressure as a measure of control. Its severity and quantity depend on climate changes for this reason more and much more severe are forecast as climate change affects the planet.

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