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For agricultural countries, the soil is the most important resource. For Taiwan too, the soil is the origin of its industrial power. Through time Taiwan’s farmers learned how to maximize the use of their land to yield high productivity. Here, farmland…

Should we call it the best and the last resort to aware people? Making celebrities call for awareness? In a televised interview and presentation of part of the documentary “Global Warming”, movie star Leonardo Di Caprio warned of the current and future…

Armed guards for Olive Ridley turtles! Yes, armed guards. And it is they who have helped them increase in their population safely. So far this year, about 13 million endangered Olive Ridley turtles have hatched on Mexico’s Pacific beaches and scuttled…

Overlooking the first failure to restore the animal from extinction, six beavers from Bavaria were released in western England as a second attempt. It is a species that has been extinct in the country since the 12th century. The earlier effort was made…

The entry of the deadly avian influenza virus through migratory birds needs immediate preventive steps. And the Philippines have geared up with taking actions. They have stepped up surveillance of 55 wetlands across the country. The H5N1 strain of bird…

Climate change is destroying the world’s coral reef. Unless urgent measures to protect them against the threat of climate change are taken, nearly half of the world’s coral reefs may be lost in the next 40 years. This is reported by the World…

The whales in the southern Australian state of Tasmania are dying. They are probably becoming disoriented in confusing coastal waters, according to officials. About 110 stranded whales have died till date. The long-finned pilot whales died after two…

Scientists want to turn carrots, celery, broccoli and mushrooms farm into a certified wetland bank. It will be the only wetland bank of its kind in the nation. The mushroom farm was later used for research on hybrid poplar, greenhouse gases, berries and..

It’s a rare experience for the US residents. The black-tailed gull from Asia is supposedly spotted for the first time on Lake Champlain of Vermont. According to a bird watching expert, there are 20 to 25 records of the bird being spotted in North…

American drivers are cool with using natural gas. But, the problems they face lies somewhere else. Natural-gas stations are few and far between, and until recently the vehicles were nearly as expensive to fuel up as their gasoline-powered counterparts….