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Finland’s emissions jumped when the forests’ carbon sink collapsed – Climate Minister Ohisalo: There should be no stopping on the road to carbon neutrality
Finland is in a new situation on the road to reducing emissions. For the first time, the net sink of soil and forests is not helping to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality, but causing emissions.
In Porvoo, there was possibly a wolf on the Haikkoo fitness track – observations for weeks, now the animal is being driven away
Risö beach area is being renovated in Vaasa – with the aim of improving the living conditions of many different bird species
Tons of plastic rose from a waste vortex the size of a large state in the Pacific Ocean: video shows the shocking masses of waste
The amount collected is only a fraction of the plastic waste that is constantly piling up in the Pacific Ocean’s waste vortex.
In a six-day operation, the Dutch environmental organization raised a total of more than 145,000 kilograms of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean in October. The single largest cargo was more than 10,000 kilograms, The Ocean Cleanup organization says on Twitter.
The video shot by the organization shows how bulk goods such as barrels and plastic baskets roll onto the ship’s deck from a net lifted from the sea.
The catch was taken from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the North Pacific. It is estimated that there is a total of 2.41 million kilograms of plastic waste in the vortex.
Its area is estimated at 1.6 million square kilometers, which is up to three times larger than the French state.
The 10,000 kilograms collected in the latest operation is therefore about 0.4 percent of all the waste floating in the vortex. The number is growing all the time.
New natural plants have been approved for food use – yarrow and sweet-smelling sedge made it to the list of permitted ones
Permitted wild plants open up new opportunities and taste experiences for the beverage industry, among others.
Jääskänjärvi’s shore dredging brought plenty of little lake mussels to the cottage beaches – \”A good sign\ says Professor Konnevesi from the research station sanoo professori Konneveden tutkimusasemalta
The water level of Jääskänjärvi in \u200b\u200bAlavu was lowered during the fall and winter so that the beaches can be dredged. In Jääskänjärvi, as dredging progressed, the lake’s large number of small lake mussels has been marveled at.
Birds are being saved by active protection, the last raccoon of the pearl of the Archipelago National Park, Jungfruskär, has been removed – for the time being
WWF Finland awarded the 2022 Panda award to the Archipelago Nature Management and Protection Association, which has done successful work to remove alien animals from the archipelago. Clearing the islands requires the seamless cooperation of dogs and skilled hunters.
\”Threat from the depths\” is the nature picture of the year
Seinäjoki resident Antti Strang’s \”Threat from the depths\” was chosen as the 2022 nature photo from among almost 12,000 photos.
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Many of us have at least once dreamed of revenge – the primal need has been passed down to us from the monkeys
A person lives according to jointly agreed norms and laws. This is where we differ from other monkeys, but we share the phenomenon of revenge with our close relatives, chimpanzees.
Surely each of us has vowed revenge at one time or another. That you can somehow give back. However, revenge is not only a specialty of the human species, animals also know how to take revenge. The desire for revenge is known to have been transferred to humans through evolution from apes.
But how does revenge manifest itself in the animal world?
Many animals know how to cooperate with each other for the common good. Some animals even help their fellow species to get food, without wanting to part with the prey themselves. It is therefore no wonder that animals also feel unfairness deeply and react to it.
A famous example of a reaction to unfairness is the capuchin monkeys’ \”Wall Street protest\”. The monkeys had been taught the simple task of collecting stones and giving them to the researcher. During the experiment, capuchin monkeys working in adjacent cages were initially each given a piece of cucumber as pay. Then the other one got better food, i.e. grapes, as a salary increase. The other monkey saw the unfairness and got angry, and no longer wanted to continue working for a lower salary.
It is still unclear whether the Capuchins’ frustration and going on strike can be considered actual revenge.
Revenge of chimpanzees, on the other hand, was found in an experiment where two chimpanzees were on opposite sides of the table. Another was offered food, but the food was taken away. The individual under investigation had the opportunity to collapse the table by pulling the string, so that the food spreads on the floor and no one gets to eat. If the researcher first showed that there was food here, but took the food away, the chimpanzee did get upset, but did not snap at the researcher. The chimpanzees also did not collapse the table while playing or trying to pull the string.
Revenge is sweet
The sweetness of revenge is based on its power to balance the evil wind. This was found in an American study.
The subjects first wrote an essay about some personal topic. Some of them received good feedback on their writing and some received crushing feedback.
In the next step, subjects who received negative feedback were allowed to show how angry they were by means of needles poking a voodoo doll. Before and after the experiment, it was measured how good their mood was.
Those who received crushing feedback returned to the same good mood after the sting as they were before writing the essay, and their mood did not differ from that of those who received good feedback.
The experience of unfairness drove more pain
Next, the subjects were given a placebo pill, which was said to strengthen the train of thought in the upcoming experiment. Some of the subjects were also told that as a side effect of the pill, the mood remains stable during the experiment.
In the experiment, a video game was played and the test subjects were initially given the experience of unfair treatment. After this, they were offered a chance to take revenge.
In the second game, test subjects thirsty for revenge had to race to the buzzer and the winner got the chance to shake the loser’s ears with a loud sound. The race was repeated, and if the victory came again, the winner had the opportunity to raise the decibels of the bell to match the sound level of the helicopter hovering above.
Those subjects who had lost unfairly in the first game were tapped to use decibel torture in the actual revenge test. However, the subjects who received the \”mood stabilizer\” were an exception to this. According to the researchers, this was because they did not feel that their mood would improve as a result of revenge.
Revenge is therefore sweet, because a person consciously uses it to correct the resentment caused by mistreatment.
The powerful will be indirectly retaliated against
If a fellow human being has experienced injustice and shares the matter with the public on social media, pretty quickly you will find a group of friends who are ready to take revenge on behalf of the victim. This is where humans differ from other apes, such as our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos.
