Tag: nature
Endangered Species of the Week – Bactrian camels
Species Camelus bactrianus Bactrian camels can be currently found in the remote areas of the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts in Mongolia. It is one of the two species of camels that is surviving and has 3 humps on its back, rather than the single hump of their Arabian relatives. It is these humps that give the animal to survive the harsh conditions of the desert. These are the [...]
Endangered Species of the week – Red-crowned Crane
Species Grus japonensis Red-crowned Crane is also referred to as Manchurian Crane or Japanese Crane. This large east Asian crane is among the rarest cranes in the world. Because of its small population, the species is classified as Endangered and the numbers continue to dwindle due to loss of wetlands due to industrial development and [...]
Top 10 Environmental Protection Agencies
Environmental protection is the joint responsibility of every inhabitant of this planet, also know as the blue planet or Earth. There are different kinds of pollutants and contaminants spreading at a rapid speed in the natural environment around us, such as the atmosphere, sediment, surface water, soil and groundwater. Environmental protection has become very vital not only for [...]
Green Wind Power on its way at Great Basin National Park
The project to set up 66, 275 foot tall wind turbines directly beneath the heights of Great Basin National Park, Nevada is now well underway as the April 22, 2012 photo exhibits. Nevada’s first wind farm, which will disturb almost 15 square miles, was approved by the BLM without even an environmental impact statement. It [...]
5 Ways Global Warming Is Changing the Globe
Over the last century global temperatures have warmed up by 1.33 degrees Fahrenheit (0.74 degrees Celsius) on average. The change might appear small, but it’s occurring really quickly — more than half of it since 1979, reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 1. Moving the military north Because the Arctic ice opens up, [...]
Endangered Species of the week – Asiatic Cheetah
Species Acinonyx jubatus venaticus Extinction is not new and in the wild, the future of the Asiatic cheetah is uncertain and is a global problem. Living in an unsuitable environment the extinction rate is all the more accelerated due to ignorant human beings. The term “ cheetah” originates from the Hindi word chitraka, which means speckled. It [...]
Endangered Species of the Week – Mountain gorilla
We started a awareness project to help protect endangered species. This week hero is a Mountain Gorilla. Species Mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei Habitat There are two populations of Mountain gorilla. One of them is found in Central Africa among the Virunga volcanic mountains . The other is found in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. Status There are less than 800 mountain gorillas worldwide as per the recent statistics. In Belgium, there is [...]
10 Places Destroyed by Humans
The disasters caused by people may be more or less tragic, but none so terrible as when a man totally destroy the clear convenient place to live. Pripyat, Ukraine Pripyat is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine (Kiev region) near the border with Belarus. It was the city where the employees lived and worked in [...]
Ten Most Amazing Albino Animals
image credits Winter is the time of year when these living ghosts really come into their own, as the world becomes white, allowing them to blend in perfectly. Albino Animals are actually very rare in nature, and humanity has been enthralled by these creatures for thousands of years. For some cultures in the [...]
9 Most Dangerous Nuclear Power Plant Accidents
Based on a report by INAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), a radiation & nuclear disaster or accident is described as “Any event which leads to a significant consequence/s to the environment, facility as well as people. A few examples of such are the lethal consequences to individuals, a large release of radioactivity in the environment, [...]
Ways to Use Green Renewable Energy At Home
Renewable energy is increasingly becoming popular because of the innumerable environmental benefits, plus the high-energy cost & forever advancing technology is leading people to think about installing intelligent systems that work on renewable energy in their houses. Energy that is coal-powered is polluting as well as expensive, nuclear power is potentially dangerous, and then there [...]
10 Most Common Effects of Global Warming
One of the most controversial topics in today’s date is that of Global warming…and it has far-reaching consequences for our entire planet. Global warming has been described as a long-term effect of the greenhouse gases that will affect our planet’s (Earth) temperature as they build up in the atmosphere. Even though global warming’s a topic [...]
First Ever Photo of Shark Cannibalism
Australian researchers snapped this extraordinary sight in August while they were carrying out a census of fish off Great Keppel Island off the Great Barrier Reef image credits This is believed to be the first time scientists have ever photographed a shark eating another shark. The photo shows a type of carpet shark called a [...]
