Video: How a pandemic is helping our planet: When a person retreats, nature takes its
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The wealth and beauty of Mother Nature are endless! Everything that surrounds us is immensely beautiful: mountains, seas, rivers, fields, meadows, gardens, many different animals! And how insanely wasteful man treats all these riches! One small, microscopic biological form called the coronavirus has done more for our planet in these two months than all the world's ecologists in two decades! Let's see how everything in nature is restored and returns to normal when a person does not interfere.
For the first time in several decades, residents of some regions of India have seen the Himalayas! This is because, as a result of total quarantine, enterprises stopped working and made harmful emissions. The air has cleared and became simply crystal.
Local residents say that the air quality has improved greatly, and they have never seen mountains before. “To save India, to save every citizen, you, your family, we will close every street, every quarter,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the quarantine was introduced throughout the country on March 24.
India is inhabited by over 1.3 billion people. According to the World Health Organization, in 2012, almost 1.5 million people died from air pollution in the country. This is due to the fact that Indian air is five times dirtier than the safe air quality limit set by the WHO.
The quarantine has had an impact on air pollution not only in India but around the world. This can be seen from satellite imagery.
Nature slowly but surely returns what belongs to her. Animals appear on empty, man-made streets. Previously, these were deer, wild boars, horses, goats, sheep. Now countless other wild animals have joined them around the world. Dangerous predators such as bears, mountain lions, wild cougars and even alligators roam the city streets.
In eastern India, for the first time in years, hundreds of thousands of olive turtles have come down to a deserted coast to lay their eggs. Such an opportunity appeared only as a result of quarantine, because earlier this was prevented by crowds of tourists scurrying everywhere. Previously, they were still exterminated by poachers, since the meat of these sea turtles is an expensive delicacy, and the skin and shell are also very valuable. Today, according to experts, these animals, which reproduce rather slowly, have managed to lay almost a hundred million eggs.
The consequences of the quarantine as a result of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic have also affected the population of pink (tomato) jellyfish in the southern Philippines. They just flooded the local beaches. Usually there are not so many of them, due to the influx of tourists. In addition, they always appear in late January or February, but this year jellyfish appeared off the coast of the islands only in March.
An ocean current brings them to Korong Korong Bay. There are no tourists, the locals are in quarantine and no one bothers the jellyfish. Climate change also contributes to the reproduction of tomato jellyfish, because these animals consider water with a low oxygen level to be their favorable environment.
This can be a threatening phenomenon, since a huge number of these jellyfish have already brought significant harm in different years. They harm fish, their uncontrolled population can be the cause of fish death. Man also suffers from these animals. In 1999, there were so many jellyfish on the island of Luzon that they were sucked into the mechanisms at the power plant and electricity disappeared throughout the island. Good news for humanity - the ozone layer began to actively recover over our planet. Prior to this, environmentalists sounded the alarm, because a huge ozone hole had formed over the Arctic. Scientists have described its size as equal to three Greenlands. Such changes led to the fact that high air currents moved far to the south. This brought with it many adverse changes in the Earth's climate.
Harmful emissions from industrial enterprises, especially in recent years, destroy the ozone layer. It recovers extremely slowly. Now, due to the shutdown of many industrial complexes, this process has gone faster. If it continues at this pace, then by 2030 it will fully recover over the Northern Hemisphere. It will take another thirty years to recover over the entire surface of our planet.
So, as we can see, in order to bring benefit to the Earth, very little is required from a person - just not to interfere with nature to do its work on its own.
Read about how a person can help nature in our article. A 70-year-old woman decided to make the world a better place and cleaned 52 beaches in a year.
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