By Zsuzsa Román Today we hear the shocking news of the war in Ukraine, but there are many more military conflicts in the world, including those of Yemen, Syria and Ethiopia. As a result, let us now take a look at war, at the effects of its dark pages of history! The phenomenon of war…

By Zsuzsa Román In our blog we seek to express the thousands of nuances of  the relationships present in nature. The question becomes very interesting when we discover that we can’t observe these relationships and interactions from the outside because we are very much inside nature and a part of it. Studies on climate change show…

By Zsuzsa Román Several studies have explored the topic of communication among plants, including some articles on this blog, such as Catherine Belzung’s Trees too collaborate and Maria Florencia Decarlini’s A hidden giant of our planet. Beyond the underground “information” networks formed by fungal roots there are also communication routes established by chemical and electrical…

By Zsuzsa Román “Coronavirus” is perhaps the most used word in the media and on social networks today, where some speak of the war against this virus. The question then arises: but is every virus harmful, does every virus cause diseases or are there also good viruses? Viruses are “obligatory parasites” in the sense that…

By Zsuzsa Román We are connected with our environment in a very complex way, not only with some part of ourselves, but in our entirety. The life of big cities presents us with an example: everyday noise arrives to us inevitably. The WHO document entitled “Environmental Noise Guidlines for the European Region”1 indicates the importance…

By Zsuzsa Román When we hear the word “bacteria” we immediately think of diseases. Let’s be careful though, we may not be right! There certainly are bacteria that cause even serious diseases, but there are also various types of bacteria that “collaborate” with other living beings in a positive way. In an ecosystem, these “constructive”…