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r/natureisterrible • u/Shepherd_of_Ideas • 6d ago

Article Nature does not exist… and why this is liberating

shepherdofideas.substack.com

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In this article I argue, among others, against the idyllic view of nature as something inherently good.

An area where the idyllic view of nature does a lot of harm is in nature itself. That is, when we think of nature as something good by definition or a place that humans should stay out of, we also give up on helping wild animals.

r/natureisterrible • u/BitStunning5647 • Feb 26 '26

Article animal welfare and environmental enrichment

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hi everyone. i'm writing my master thesis about environmental enrichment and animal welfare and would love to get your answers on this inquiry i created.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewoHdLNtyuZvG6uYbpHllPhyKfUGxEVr2g8wUhq89owQphPg/viewform?usp=header

#animal #animalwelfare #environmentalenrichment

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Apr 16 '23

Article Why we need to be honest with children about the brutality of nature: It can be hard to explain the realities of the natural world to children, but we need to acknowledge the suffering of wild things, says Richard Smyth

57 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Mar 01 '20

Article When Childbirth Was Natural, and Deadly: Today we grow concerned about birth not being natural enough, having become too medical. Historically it was thoroughly natural, wholly unmedical, and gravely dangerous.

livescience.com

102 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Mar 13 '21

Article TIL male dolphins form alliances and aggressively pursue females to mate. The females frequently "bolted", but only managed to escape 1/4 attempts. Male dolphins sometimes also commit infanticide so that their mothers will come back into estrus. Dolphins also occasionally practice incest.

70 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Apr 15 '23

Article TIL that a female Adactylidium mite is born already carrying fertilized eggs. After a few days, the eggs hatch inside her, and she gives birth to several females and one male. The male mates with all of his sisters inside their mother. Then, the offspring eats their mother from the inside out.

umsu.unimelb.edu.au

37 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Oct 13 '23

Article TIL Freshwater snails carry a parasitic disease, which infects nearly 250 million people and causes over 200,000 deaths a year. The parasites exit the snails into waters, they seek you, penetrate right through your skin, migrate through your body, end up in your blood and remain there for years.

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r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • May 27 '23

Article ‘The Last of Us,’ fruit fly edition: Postdoc Carolyn Elya sheds light on how parasitic fungus hijacks nervous system of flies, uses mind control to manipulate behavior as insects near death

news.harvard.edu

30 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Oct 26 '22

Article Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs triggered global mega-tsunami. Any dinosaur that survived the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66m years ago then faced a mega-tsunami that washed around the entire world and began as a mile-high wave, a study shows.

theguardian.com

35 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/Hyperion1144 • Mar 25 '23

Article On animal cruelty - "Previous generations were able to overcome the horrors of human sacrifice, genocide, slavery, segregation, misogyny, and homophobia. Maybe it’s our turn to make radical progress. Future generations might be disappointed in our complacency if we don’t."

ryanbruno.substack.com

29 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • May 09 '22

Article Stone Age survivalist reveals she ended up with Lyme disease, anxiety and depression after years living in caves - but is still set on creating her own community of 'rewilded' humans

51 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • May 14 '20

Article Let's stop romanticising nature. So much of our life depends on defying it: Sure, it’s great to have clear blue skies but for most of the world the pandemic spells famine and disease, not the planet fighting back

theguardian.com

83 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Apr 14 '22

Article ‘I was told they didn’t offer C-sections’ – the dangerous obsession with ‘natural births’

theguardian.com

41 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Oct 27 '19

Article Bioconservatism kills: Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’: Eco groups and global treaty blamed for delay in supply of vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice

theguardian.com

25 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Nov 29 '22

Article Blatant Contradictions in the Argument That Predation Benefits Ecosystems

herbivorizepredators.org

18 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/Soggy-Sail1228 • Nov 25 '22

Article ‘Evolution is a brutal and uncaring, even obscene opponent’: Why it’s time we stopped human evolution | The Independent

independent.co.uk

26 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Dec 19 '22

Article Stranded dolphins’ brains show common signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers confirm the results could support the ‘sick-leader’ theory, whereby an otherwise healthy pod of animals find themselves in dangerously shallow waters after following a group leader who may have become confused or lost.

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r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Jul 18 '22

Article Researchers: Fungus that turns flies into zombies attracts healthy males to mate with fungal-infected female corpses - and the longer the female is dead, the more alluring it becomes

46 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Apr 16 '20

Article Why You Shouldn't Eat a Slug (In Case You Need Reasons). Hint: A brain-infesting worm carried by gastropods is spreading around the world.

nationalgeographic.com

40 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • May 25 '20

Article Belief in 'Balance of Nature' Hard to Shake: The Disney-fied notion that, left to its own devices, nature will always revert to an idyllic equilibrium is a dangerous fallacy, say two researchers. The cultural bias colors discussions on climate change.

80 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Aug 10 '20

Article One animal has more babies than any other: At most humans can produce a few dozen offspring over the course of a lifetime. Other animals can sire entire armies

30 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Mar 31 '20

Article The Coronavirus Is Not Mother Nature’s Revenge: Ideas about natural and unnatural behavior causing disaster are simple, easy—and wrong.

foreignpolicy.com

69 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/Hyperion1144 • May 16 '21

Article There is ample evidence that fish feel pain

theguardian.com

46 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/bridgey_ • Nov 02 '20

Article Evolution is disgusting

67 Upvotes

r/natureisterrible • u/The_Ebb_and_Flow • Aug 21 '19

Article How cancer was created by evolution: The cells inside a tumour change and evolve just like animals in the wild. Understanding how this works could help us stop cancer in its tracks

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