Life Improving Guide
For the 26 people who live and work on Lundy Island, the road ahead might seem a little difficult, both literally and metaphorically. The only beach road that connects to the top of this four and a half kilometer long and a kilometer wide island is in…
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Surprising though it might seem, a global warming side effect seems to have made it very much possible to grow sunflowers in the arctic cold! Elisabeth Iversen’s garden on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen is a defiant reminder of a warmer south.
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So far it were humans facing the heat of the illegitimate war forced on them by war mongers in Congo, it is now turn for innocent animals to suffer from the same, as guerillas capture gorilla territories. Is it the beginning of a war against the…
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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..
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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…
China’s SEPA targets drug factories for environmental pollution Read More »
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…
Arctic could be ice-free in coming 23 years Read More »
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…
Are we looking at the extinction of orangutans in the wild? Read More »
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…
Are Indigenous livestock breeds in danger of extinction? Read More »
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..
Separate UN agency to look over environment, suggests Amorim Read More »
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..
Global warming, rising population is straining soils Read More »