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the elaborate rumor that nothing on Earth gets to be lonely.
means The branch of biology that studies how living things relate to one another and to their surroundings — who eats whom, who needs whom, and how it all hangs together.
from Coined in German as Ökologie by biologist Ernst Haeckel in the 1860s, stitched from Greek oikos, 'house' or 'household,' and -logia, 'study of' — literally the study of nature's housekeeping. It shares that oikos root with 'economy,' so ecology and economics are linguistic siblings: one keeping the books of money, the other the books of life.
- young science
- The word was coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel.
- wolf magic
- Reintroduced wolves reshaped Yellowstone's rivers.
- hidden internet
- Fungi link tree roots into trading networks underground.
- keystone power
- One sea otter can guard an entire kelp forest.
- shared word
- Economy and ecology both mean managing the house.
everglades restoration — florida wetland ecosystem recovery project spanning 18,000 square miles since 1999
serengeti ecosystem — tanzania-kenya savanna with 1.5 million wildebeest migration annually
amazon rainforest — brazil's 5.5 million square kilometer forest containing 10% of earth's species
coral triangle — southeast asia region with 75% of world's coral species across 6 countries