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                The Living Planet

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lanet Earth hosts a prodigious amount and variety of living organisms-perhaps many millions of species. Much of this life, which thrives in the soil, the air, and the water, is too small for the naked eye to see. For example, just one gram of soil has been found to host 10,000 species of bacteria, not to mention the total number of microbes! Some species have been found up to three kilometers underground!

The atmosphere too is packed with life-and this does not mean just birds, bat, and insects. Depending on time of year, it is also filled with pollen and other spores, as well as seeds and-in certain areas –thousand of different kinds of microbes. This puts the diversity of microbes in the soil, says Scientific American magazine.

WATCHING THE WORLD

§         “A team of astronomer using the Subaru and Keck telescope on Mauna Kea [Hawaii] has discovered giant, three-dimensional filaments of galaxies extending across 200 million light-years of space.” These filaments make up the largest-known structure ever discovered. -SUBARU TELESCOPE WEB SITE, JAPAN.

§         The United Kingdom’s office for National Statistics reports that  “the number of wedding [in England and Wales] in 2006 was the lowest for 110 years. More and more couples prefer to cohabit.”

-THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY, BRITAIN.