September 30, 2011 / energy, green
Wind and solar energy, in particular, are touted as the energy sources of the future. But entrepreneurs have tried to harness both for centuries. Their limited utility and obstacles, documented since
February 9, 2011 / green
Ecotourism is one of the two fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry. Second one is ethnic tourism. Ethnic tours encounters visitors with the forms of native peoples, cultures and arts. Eco
January 28, 2011 / Earth
Eco-friendly travel ideas According to the Google maps flight emission calculator, a direct flight from Denver Colorado to Jacksonville Florida (1,445 miles) produces 1.173 tons of CO2 emissions. T
January 27, 2011 / Earth, disasters
The word Tsunami comes from Japan where it has been a frequent phenomen and originally meant a wave in harbor. Before there was a clear understanding of the tsunami phenomenon, Japanese fishermen woul
November 29, 2010 / Earth
The Serengeti region is located mostly in Tanzania and a little bit in Kenya. This region within 30,000 km2 consists of Serengeti National Park and few game reserves. Those lands are mostly for wildli
November 28, 2010 / Earth
Fossil fuels are to play significant as an energy source, even in 21st century but now we must pay attention on carbon dioxide accumulation in air and try to prevent it, as much as we can. Current rat
September 21, 2010 / Earth
The bags landfills pollute ecosystems taking too long to completely decompose and kill animals that mistake the bags for food. When produced, plastic bags they’ll accumulate and persist on our plane
September 12, 2010 / Earth
After Haiti’s devastating earthquake, an ecological disaster has been unfolding elsewhere across the country. Mountain forests of Haiti’s Massif de la Hotte region have been more critically endang
August 13, 2010 / Earth
Argentina's remote lake in northwestern territories may have clues on how life got started on Earth and how life could survive on Mars or other planets, not just in our solar system. Researchers have
August 10, 2010 / Earth
Brittish explorer named Ed Stafford finished his 6500km long journey along the Amazon River in little more than two years. Ed started his journey at Camana, Peru on April 2, 2008 and ended it yesterda
July 18, 2010 / Earth
Last report by the U.N. Environmental Program or UNEP showed that about a one fifth of the world’s mangroves have been lost since 1980. It is more than 36 square kilometers of forests that are strad
May 18, 2010 / Earth
Lights in the sky have fascinated us for thousands of years. The lights in the far north and south of our planet are some of the more famous ones. What was in that soup? Travel to Antarctica or th
April 24, 2010 / Earth
Forget expensive machinery, the best way to purify water could be hiding in a cactus. It turns out that an extract from the prickly pear cactus is effective at removing sediment and bacteria from dirt
March 23, 2010 / Earth
There are approaching 100,000 different human made chemical compounds in use around the world today, in millions of different products. Additional compounds are created as by-products of manufac
