Just one day having started the global meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Paris, predictions about the content of the report on global warming in the next five years to be presented on Friday is hardly encouraging: during the next 100 years the pace of global warming will double.
“This new report will [...]

Bisphenol A is an industrial chemical used primarily to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins - both of which are used in countless applications that make our lives easier, healthier and safer, each and every day.

Depending on whom you talk to, Bisphenol-A(BPA) is either perfectly safe or a dangerous health risk. The plastics industry says [...]

You wake up and go through your morning routine and as you head the door to seize the day, more than half of you are grabbing that ever so popular bottle of water. Next, its time for lunch, and you sit down to enjoy what is probably your first real meal of the [...]

Almost 2 years after its release date, the documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, which put one of the biggest spotlights on the detrimental effects of our careless lifestyles on the environment, conveys important information and carries a message that must be heard on an ongoing basis.
On An Inconvenient Truth’s website, climatecrisis.net, it states: There is [...]

KOALA
Phascolarctos cinereus
MAMMAL
Order Marsupial
Habitat
Eucalyptus (gum tree) forests and woodlands.
Niche
Strictly arboreal, living in and feeding on the leaves of eucalyptus trees. Caecum of gut is greatly enlarged (about 6 ft. long) and houses a large bacterial colony that aids in leaf digestion. Usually comes to ground only to change trees. Preyed upon at those [...]

The main definition of bonsai as an outlet for both art and horticulture is quite wide. There are many myths which are associated with bonsai. These not only provide confusion for budding enthusiasts, but gives the pastime a bad name for anyone not majorly experienced in the area. A bonsai is not a genetically dwarfed [...]

Plant poisoning is caused by chemicals in plants that have undesirable affects upon animals and humans. Some poisons must be ingested whereas others, such as chemicals in poison-ivy, only require contact to elicit response in sensitive humans. Some chemicals must be modified before they are poisonous to animals, such as prunasin and other cyanogenic glycosides. [...]

The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation.
Forests are cut down for many reasons, but most of them are related to money or to people’s need to provide for their families.The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting [...]

Cars with petrol driven internal combustion engines produce toxic waste products that pollute the air, damaging our health, animal life and the environment.
Road transport is responsible for the emission of hydrocarbons, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, metals and a variety of organic compounds into the environment. Sunlight acts on some of these to produce [...]

Nuclear power shouldn’t be an option when we talk about power generation. It is neither carbon emission free nor would new power stations come on stream for at least ten years. It threatens the environment and people’s health. No safe solution has yet been devised to store its carcinogenic toxic radioactive waste, some of which [...]