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 [...]
by Annie Spiegelman
It’s time we started showing some respect and gratitude for the underappreciated earthworm and his boy back-up band, fungi & bacteria. They are the true humble heroes and workhorses who do the necessary dirty work to keep your soil full of nutrients.
Yet, in our home gardens, we’re constantly killing earthworms with synthetic fertilizers. [...]
Biofuel: Tomorrow´s Fuel
Biofuel can be broadly defined as solid, liquid, or gas fuel consisting of, or derived from biomass. The definition used here is narrower: biofuel is defined as liquid or gas transportation fuel derived from biomass. Biomass can also be used directly for heating or power. One type of biomass is wood, which is [...]
Why don´t you choose an Organic Fertilizer?
Fertilizers typically provide, in varying proportions, the three major plant nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium), the secondary plant nutrients (calcium,sulfur,magnesium), and sometimes trace elements (or micronutrients) with a role in plant nutrition: boron,chlorine,manganeso,iron,zinc ,etc).
In the past, both organic and inorganic fertilizers were called “manures” derived from the French [...]
Eucalyptus
A large and important genus of Australian forest trees; includes about 500 species in the family Myrtaceae. Only two species occur naturally outside Australia in the adjacent islands. Eucalypts occur throughout Australia except in coastal tropical and subtropical rainforests in Queensland and New South Wales and in temperate rainforests in Victoria and Tasmania. They are [...]
When should I water my orchids?
When to water will vary based on type of orchid and what the conditions are. Over watering is probably the major cause of orchid death with new growers.
The best thing is to develop a method of knowing when to water. Some people go by “heft.” Lift the pot right after [...]
Orchids are easily distinguished, as they share some very evident apomorphies. Among these: bilaterally symmetric (zygomorphic) and resupinate, a petal (labellum) is always highly modified, stamens and carpels are fused and the seeds are extremely small.
Orchids belong to the most diverse family of plants known to man. There are over 880 genera, 28,000 species and [...]
Deforestation:
Deforestation is the permanent destruction of indigenous forests and woodlands. The term does not include the removal of industrial forests such as plantations of gums or pines. Deforestation has resulted in the reduction of indigenous forests to four-fifths of their pre-agricultural area. Indigenous forests now cover 21% of the earth’s land surface.
Generally, the removal or [...]
