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• Desertification
  02 Jul 2008 in Travel & Nature

  There are many ecosystems on earth not rich in vegetation and other organisms. This is natural wherever there is low rainfall and hostile ground. However, there are other areas, in theory able to sustain a variety of living organisms, with …

• Stop the fires!
  23 Jun 2008 in Travel & Nature

  It has been almost one year since the last big fires were set in Europe. Last summer, many square kilometres of forests were burnt into ashes, with Greece being the most serious example. One year later, authorities have taken no …

• Noise pollution
  23 Jun 2008 in Food & Health

  Noise can actually be a form of pollution that characterizes urban and industrial areas. It affects not only the human hearing, but all our functions. The unit for measuring how loud a sound is, is called decibel. One decibel describes …

• Eutrophication
  16 Jun 2008 in Travel & Nature

  There are many environmental problems caused by human but not widely known. One of them is eutrophication. This phenomenon cannot be entirely characterised as water pollution, as it mostly describes the process of too many plants growing in lakes, rivers …

• Rainforests and deforestation
  09 Jun 2008 in Travel & Nature

  Inside the Rainforest – Cape Tribulation – Queensland – Australia. Photo: Rob Inh00d. Tropical rainforests have the largest biodiversity of all ecosystems on Earth. The soil is rather poor, but it sustains a great variety of plants. It is estimated …

• Why did they use DDT?
  04 Jun 2008 in Biodiversity

  During a nighttime robbery, the horn of a 120-year-old stuffed rhinoceros was stolen, from the museum where it was displayed. Museum authorities warned that using this horn as a traditional medicine on the Asian black market could have lethal consequences …

• Are you sure you know all the reasons why shopping destroys the environment?
  02 Jun 2008 in Business & Politics

  Shopping can be a really refreshing habit that has been proved to make the purchasers feel happier. It also satisfies basic human needs. Thus, it would be a pie in the sky to say that shopping should be stopped. But …

• Greece promotes green-bags in Athens
  28 Feb 2008 in Business & Politics

  All developed countries have started taking measures to reduce their bad impact on Earth. Banning incadescent lightbulbs, cars from the city centres, or introducing laws for greener factories and industries. Greece at last followed their example by promoting a greener …

• Green shipbuilders hark back to age of sail
  28 Feb 2008 in Cars & Transportation

  German engineers have devised a way of tugging merchant vessels along with huge, computer steered kites, known as Skysails, that catch the ocean winds. It marks the beginning of a revolution in the way that ships are powered. The sails …

• If you return as a seal in your next life, you are so dead
  27 Feb 2008 in Green Action Tip

  Up to 350000 newborn seals were estimated to be killed last summer in Canada, and the number is thought to be much bigger this coming summer. In 2005 the 98,5% of the babies killed weren’t even 2-months-old, and autopsies showed …