Ethiopian authorities have come up with cruel plans to kill thousands of stray dogs ahead of the Coptic millennium celebrations next week. They are to be fed meat laced with strychnine, a cheap and powerful poison often used to kill rats that causes a..
Life Improving Guide
Life Improving Guide
In the midst of a growing concern about pollution ahead of the 2008 Olympics, China is coming down heavily on the drug industry after focusing on polluted rivers in July. China’s environmental watchdog has closed down or suspended 649 firms and given…
Arctic is melting at such a rate that in the coming 23 years, it will be left barren. Mounting heat pressure is endangering the most profound ice sheets in the world.
Ice in the Arctic usually begins to freeze over the winter. But, this summer…
We choose Oil palm plantations instead of orangutans, quick bucks over later losses. Even as their limited habitats are destroyed, they cling precariously to life. From a once-mighty orange army of 300,000 their numbers have dwindled to 25,000…
Drought-resistant ankole cattle are being displaced from African farms by the northern hemisphere’s holstein-friesian dairy cows, which produce much more milk.
We are close to witnessing another major drawback of introducing invasive species. This…
The Brazilian Foreign minister(FM)Celso Amorim recently suggested that UN should create a separate body to look over the environmental matters. Given the ever escalating number of environmental issues, it is critical that the UN create a separate..
Burgeoning population is a roadblock not only to development, but also a burden on natural resources, heralding a pace of slow growth and fast exploitation of resources. Both, global warming and rising population are a drag that needs fixing, if man..
Much to the surprise and joy of conservationists, a freshwater dolphin that had been declared ‘extinct’ only days ago, has made an appearance in the Yangtze River! This is the Baiji Dolphin, also called the Chinese River Dolphin and affectionately…
An increase in tourism, vehicles and a deadly frog fungus is being held responsible for landing a rare Japanese wildcat on the ‘critically endangered list’.
This change in status by the Japanese Environment Ministry is the latest indication of..
It may sound unbelievable but as per a report, the Great Wall of China might disappear in some twenty years from now. The report also confirms that the Great Wall is being reduced to ruins and dust, the reason being the great sandstorms. However, the…
