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Not only polar bears' woes but also President Obama's Defence Department float some ideas on the drastic and potentially deadly results of our loss of Arctic ice; Polar Bear Image ; Credit: © Shutterstock The White House is concerning itself about the loss of ice from the Arctic Ocean...
Neonicotinoid nightmares By Dave Armstrong - 03 May 2013 6:39:38 GMT The aquatic larvae of macro-invertebrates such as dragonflies have been found to be severely affected by many systemic insecticides, even at low concentration; Dragonfly Image ; Credit: © Shutterstock The most widely...
The planet is offering us little help in deciphering the warming connection with our eternal emissions, aerosols and air and ocean effects! - Planet Earth image ; Credit: © Shutterstock Since a great peak in the 90's, the global temperature has refused to rise consistently. Those in t...
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) was created on 23rd March 1950 and in 1951 it was designated as being a specialised agency within the United Nations System. There are now 191 members of the worldwide meteorological community. World Meteorological Day is celebrated each yea...
As always, agricultural waste and sewage need ultra-modern treatment, or at least some treatment to achieve any standards in highly populated regions of the world. In the US, the upper Atlantic seaboard, (e.g. Virginia, Delaware and New Hampshire) has generally better water quality th...
, the species we all expect on the savanna, has only 7,000 animals in central or western Africa. This could explain why poaching of the forest species is so extensive. In 2012, Cameroon saw well-armed poachers on horseback killing several hundred elephants. In mid-November, the Camero...
And he bought in his staggering, record-breaking 22.4 tonnes per hectare (five times the usual yield) with nothing but some clever and careful nurturing of his crop - without a drop of pesticide , herbicide and fertilizer in sight. Not only that, but Sumant Kumar is far from the only ...
Poverty contributes to poor health and poor health anchors huge populations in poverty . Health development is directed by the ethical principle of equality and access to life-saving or health-promoting interventions should not be denied for unfair reasons. Health development is targe...
