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• Burning letter
  19 Feb 2008 in Green Quote

  The following touching text is a letter written by a fireman, some months after the one thousand fires Greece endured last summer, and addresses to people all over the world. “I would like to forget: – Those 3-4 sheeps we …

• The never solved, never forgotten issue…
  18 Feb 2008 in Biodiversity

  It is a fact that more than 1000 whales and dolphins are killed every year by whalehunters, who make some endangered species head torwards extinction. Mainly Japan, with support from Norway and Iceland, refuses to obey the rules of the …

• The Ozone Layer “Going extinct”
  21 Jan 2008 in Travel & Nature

  Ozone is a poisonous gas with strong smell, and is a form of oxygen. It is pollutant when it exists between 5-10km above the earth’s surface, causes breathing problems and harms the eyes. However, the ozone layer high above the …

• Icebergs and Global Warming
  03 Jan 2008 in Global Warming

  It is a fact that global warming affects the icebergs in a most dramatic way. The greenhouse effect is to be blamed, as it is the cause of global warming. How does that make the sea level rise? Well first …

• All the things we throw in the sea
  02 Jan 2008 in Travel & Nature

  Despite the ban in 1994, radioactive depositions still reach the seas. In french pipes of nuclear facilities Greenpeace’s divers found the waters to have 17.000.000 times more intense radioactivity than clean waters. In Norway, crabs and seaweeds have been polluted …

• Panda pioneers teach babies how to survive in the wild
  02 Jan 2008 in Biodiversity

  China has a dream that the giant pandas it breeds in captivity will one day frolic in the mountains with their wild cousins. This is the next challenge for the scientists who manage the country’s biggest reserve for captive pandas. …

• Rubbish, rubbish and more rubbish
  21 Nov 2007 in Business & Politics

  3,5 million tones of domestic garbage are produced every year in a country of the size of Greece, Italy etc. This number does not include the thousand tones of industrial garbage! In Greece, from the total 5000 dumps, 70% are …

• Acid Rain and How to Fight it
  27 Oct 2007 in Travel & Nature

  The accurate term for this phenomenon is acid precipitation,as it does not only occur with rain. When saying acid rain, we generally refer to the deposition of acidic components in rain, snow, fog, dew, even to dry particles. The rain …

• Overfishing and how we can stop it
  12 Oct 2007 in Food & Health

  Almost all of human activities are connected with the environmental destruction. Food consumption is one of the most major factors and surprisingly, it mostly affects the sea and marine life. Fish is proved to be a healthy meal which provides …

• Plants and Water: What we should do
  03 Oct 2007 in Travel & Nature

  During the last decades, the byproducts of humanity’s activities have altered most of the earth’s characteristics. As a concequence, many sources that used to exist in large quantities now face depletion. Two of the most famous of such sources are …