Category: Nature & The Environment
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The current buzzword in marketing is ‘going green’ or ‘eco-friendly’. Today’s New York Times has an apropos look (subscription required)at the phenomenon ( which I had ranted about earlier in my Madness of Magazines post on my personal blog), thus confirming my suspicions that while going green might be desirable, there will always exist a…
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Make what you will of this very interesting AP article after weighing all sides. It appears that two decades after the frightening accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the area around it has become a haven for wildlife! Moose, lynx, fox, birds and small mammals have gathered in droves in a place which was…
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I love watching clouds. I don’t know much about them but I like to look at them. The eagerly awaited Indian monsoon clouds, the foreboding dark clouds during a thunderstorm, the golden clouds at sunset, the menacing funnel clouds signaling tornadoes and the plain white fluffy clouds drifting in a cerulean sky – they are…
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Melamine has now been found in the feed given to farmed fish. There goes another part of the human food chain! Farmed fish have been fed meal spiked with the same chemical that has been linked to the pet food recall, but the contamination was probably too low to harm anyone who ate the fish,…
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The mysterious disappearance of colonies of honeybees across several nations has alarmed commercial beekeepers who rent their services to a variety of large farming operations, due to what has been termed the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Entomologists and apiologists have been proposing and testing hypotheses ranging from radiation from cell phones (‘Turn off your cell…
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…. in her back yard and for a good cause, of course. Sujatha and her daughter take stock of their garden and dream of tomatoes, peppers, beans, radish, spinach and other staples.
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Scientists may have found the first habitable planet outside the solar system. The earthlike planet orbits a red dwarf star in the constellation, Libra. Although much closer to the star which it orbits (in thirteen days), it appears to have a temperate climate – red dwarf stars are much cooler than our own sun. The…
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During a few short weeks between the last frost and the first hot days of summer, the Texas country side is aflame in a riot of colors. A whole host of wild flowers paint the grassy patches in the fields and on the sides of roads in the most gorgeous shades of red, pink, yellow,…
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A couple of days ago, headlines from the usual news websites surprisingly led with the accusation that the US government had hidden data on the levels of lead in vinyl backpacks, toys and other articles from the consumers. "In 2005, when government scientists tested 60 soft, vinyl lunch boxes, they found that one in five…
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Grass is greener on the other side of the fence. For one Nepalese airline employee, the mountain is more majestic on the other side of the world. In a baffling (and embarrassing) move, the scenic country of Nepal which is located in the foothills of the spectacular Himalayas, publicly misrepresented its natural environments. In a…
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Two events that occurred close to home yesterday have put me on edge a bit. One took place 175 miles from my home in Austin and the other unfolded a mere 5 miles away in Sugarland. (Updated photo : Dead bird on the side of Colorado highway. Link :Sujatha) AUSTIN — More than 10…
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(Leaked classified military chart showing where Iraq stands on the Peace – Chaos spectrum) A Work of Art: On a day when violence continued unabated, a US general compared Iraq to a "work of art in progress" in order to play down the deteriorating situation. I am not sure if the general just has a…
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