Indeed, covering the 2010 Belgian general election, I felt like a palaeontologist exploring some ecologically pristine Venezuelan tepui, stumbling upon species not seen elsewhere since the Ice Age.
But some ecologically minded towns have been designing a new breed of wildlife preserve, one that gives recycling a lively twist.
In Australia and New Zealand, some ecologically rich sites including the Great Barrier Reef, the Queensland Wet Tropics, the Kakadu wetlands, sub-Antarctic islands and alpine areas are deemed to be at risk of significant biodiversity loss.
Photostimulated decomposition and oxidation of some ecologically significant volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on surfaces of natural aerosol constituents are taken as an example for demonstrating the importance of these processes as the tropospheric sink of organic pollutants.
Woodland burials are a normal grave, usually buried in some ecologically friendly container, [such as] willow, usually no headstone, planted amidst trees, or in meadowland, [and] without the body being embalmed, so that it returns to nature quickly.
However, some ecologically engineered systems, which exploit the activities of acid reducing microbes in the sediment, rely on photosynthesis in the water column as a source of organic matter.
