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Conservation, Green living, Nature, Nov 8th, 2009,
Yet another display has been created to raise awareness on trees and their usage, or rather, the waste of them. Lukas Koh—a Korean designer—created T-issue (Tree Issue) to raise such awareness about sustainability, in a most simple way. By using a tissue box made from 100% recycled paper and the graphic of a tree, Koh is making an effort to help people understand the serious link between trees and the tissue use that comes from them. In other words, it shows people the ratio between how many tissues people use to how many trees are cut down in order to…
Tags: environment, Nature, paper, Recycling, sustainability, trees
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Nov 2nd, 2009,
As many know by now, COP15 is less than 6 weeks away. Come December, governments, businesses, organizations and people in general will be keeping a close eye on the proceedings of the Climate Change conference of the year. We all know that this big event is to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, but how many of you know much about Denmark itself? I’ll bet it will surprise a lot of you to learn that from 2006 to 2008, Denmark was ranked the “happiest place on Earth”. That’s right, move over Disney World, the Danes have you beat for this title…
Tags: Climate change, cop15, copenhagen, denmark, environment, Nature
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Oct 31st, 2009,
Henry David Thoreau once said: “It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious”. If only people today saw things the same way he did. The future of the world’s tigers is diminishing fast and looking very bleak, despite efforts made to protect them and bring them back. Of the nine known subspecies of tigers, 3 became extinct during the 20th century; the beginning of which saw more than 100,000 tigers in existence. Now their numbers have dwindled down to 3 or 4 thousand at the most. The other…
Tags: endangered species, Nature, poaching, population decrease, tigers, Wildlife & Flora
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Oct 29th, 2009,
As cliché as that phrase sounds, “live and let live” is exactly what biodiversity is all about. This seamless coexistence of all species is what makes life on earth so interesting. From microbes to whales, life on earth comes in all kinds of packages. If earth was a disco with each clubber representing a different species, than a Friday night is similar to what earth’s biodiversity looks like. And if some of the regulars stop coming after some time then that would be extinction of species. When the new guys join the crowd, it is like new species or sub-species…
Tags: biodiversity, Nature, Wildlife & Flora
Politics, Wildlife & Flora, Oct 17th, 2009,
The critically endangered leatherback sea turtle may gain a better chance of survival in the Pacific Ocean. NOAA Fisheries officials are considering the possibility of designating special habitat for the turtles off the coasts of California and Oregon. Pushed by a petition and lawsuit filed by conservation groups—including Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Turtle Island Restoration Network—the decision must be made by December 4th. Since the turtles migrate from nesting areas in Indonesia to the U.S. Pacific coast each year in order to feed on jellyfish, the conservation groups proposed designating that particular patch of ocean as critical…
Tags: critical habitat, endangered species, leatherback sea turtles, Nature, NOAA Fisheries, Wildlife & Flora
Wildlife & Flora, Sep 11th, 2009,
Going on holiday is the ultimate time to tune out. You get to leave work and even your mother-in-law behind in the home country. For a few blissful weeks, the rainforest and the tropical ocean are your habitats, not the office cubicle. Ahhh … what a great vacation, nothing beats a rejuvenated attitude upon returning home. What could possibly go wrong after a delightful stay in the tropics? Well nothing except a customs officer confiscating your luggage, issuing a huge fine and threatening prosecution for importing illegal souvenirs. Yes, that’s right, that little shopping spree can cost you a bundle….
Tags: endangered species, Nature, Wildlife & Flora
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 30th, 2009,
Wildlife biology seems like a blast when watching National Geographic or Animal Planet. Going to faraway places and trekking in the jungle to stalk wild creatures of the rainforest. Not to burst your bubble, but David Attenborough never collected dung samples. Despite what you see on TV, real researchers do the grunt work in the field and then spend half a lifetime in the lab trying to decipher all that shit. Take the case of the Borneo pygmy elephant and its mysterious origins. How did this small-sized Asian elephant land on the island of Borneo? Borneo is huge, larger than…
Tags: borneo, DNA, Nature, pygmy elephant
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 27th, 2009,
Species come and go. This is a fact. The dinosaurs have all perished and someday so shall we. Yet unique organisms are also things we as humans treasure, either due to scientific interest, sentimental reasons, or because we recognize their roles as vital members of ecosystems and that to lose them could cause other creatures – such as ourselves – serious problems. The disappearance of the honeybee (Colony Collapse Disorder) is just one potent example of this. Here are some other recent developments in the struggle to survive for a few endangered species. Poor Devils If you haven’t heard, Australia’s…
Tags: dolphins, Eastern Himalayas, endangered, Nature, Tasmanian Devil
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 25th, 2009,
A river on Canada’s Pacific Coast, once known for it’s most fertile spawning ground for sockeye, has seen millions of sockeye salmon disappear mysteriously. This summer, no less than 10.6 million bright-red sockeye salmon were expected to return to spawn on the Fraser River. The latest estimates however say fewer than 1 million have returned. Read the full article here
Tags: Nature, rivers, salmon, Wildlife & Flora
Climate Change, Aug 22nd, 2009,
It’s another eventful time for international organization Greenpeace, as they staged more actions this month as part of their campaigns to save the earth. In an effort to stop bottom trawling in Sweden, Greenpeace’s activists dropped giant granite boulders at the bottom of the sea in Lilla Middelgrund. Bottom trawling is the practice where fisherman drop weighted nets to the sea floor and drag them (usually tied to 2 boats) across the sea, to catch fish indiscriminately, while the nets destroy the fragile corals which many fish call home. Even though this particular area has been protected for years, there…
Tags: fish, fishing, Greenpeace, Nature, news, ocean
Science & Technology, Aug 20th, 2009,
Until recently I lived in southern Sweden, a flat landscape with plenty of farms, lots of coastline and a healthy amount of wind. While traversing across this broad rural landscape or crossing the Øresund Bridge into Denmark, I was often struck by the collections of white monolithic wind turbines that soar majestically above green fields and extend in daring rows into the sea. They stand watch like soldiers in a brave battle against the wastefulness of man and the senseless ecological violence of carbon-based energy. I was proud to live in a part of the world forward thinking enough to…
Tags: environment, Nature, renewable energy, wind farm, wind power, Wind Turbine Syndrome, wind turbines, WTS
Green living, Aug 17th, 2009,
While most of us prefer to dine out, or munch on fast foods, we still spend time in our kitchen cooking up meals that will satisfy our taste buds, or tossing in all ingredients from our cupboard into a hot sizzling pan. Indeed, for cooking fanatics, spending most of their time in their kitchen perfecting their gourmet meals can be undoubtedly blissful and harmless. However, some environment-conscious individuals will see a great opportunity here that will benefit not only the cook, but also the environment. Solar cooking has become a household name because of the increasingly aggressive campaigns of environmentalists…
Tags: alternative cooking, Health, Nature, solar cooking
