G. Tyler Miller - Environmental Science

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In recent years, scientists have been studying nature in an effort to learn how a variety of life has existed on the earth for 3.8 billion years despite several catastrophic changes in the planets environmental conditions. They include strikes by huge meteorites, long warming periods and ice ages, and five mass extinctionseach wiping out 30% to 90% of the worlds species. Examples of how life on the earth has sustained itself for 3.8 billion years are being used to help us develop technologies and solutions to the environmental problems we face and to learn how to live more sustainably. For example, the front cover of this book shows a humpback whale. These whales, which can be 12 to 15 meters (40 to 50 feet) long and weigh as much as 36,400 kilograms (80,000 pounds), can move swiftly and turn quickly as they swim in ocean water. Research, including wind-tunnel tests, shows that this dexterity is due to bumps called tubercles along the edges of their flippers (see photo at left), which somehow help whales move efficiently.

A company called WhalePower is using this lesson from nature in designing the blades of wind turbines (see photo below) to be more efficient in producing electricity. Wind power is the worlds second-fastest growing source of electricity, as discussed in detail in Chapter 13. Throughout this book, we provide a number of other examples of biomimicry, or learning from the earth. Photo Credit: Ksander/Shutterstock.com Copyright 2019 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part.

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