Well its simply not what I would want to spend 200,000 smackers on, I also have doubts on how safe this venture really is. " The Mojave desert, 160km north of Los Angeles, is best known for its...
Gud day, its not the dingo's nor the roos that are causing mayhem down near the billy bongs, but damn ugly beasts that spit and chew on the cud. Its the same old problem of introducing a species, that just...
We've just heard from the Namibia Ultra Marathon race director Steve Clark, that everyone is now back in Swakopmund. Steve said the race was very tough with temperatures getting up to 42 ºc. Winner Darren Roberts was very surprised and shocked to hear he...
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By, Uwe Paschen. Tropical Hardwood to save Panama from Deforestation. Tropical Deforestation and decades of Agricultural Misuse and abuse of the land have left Panama's Rain Forest in a dyer state to the point it...
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By, Uwe Paschen. Christmas Eve in Niger. I do have some good memories of what Christmas was when I was a Child and even as our Children where still Young, yet the last time we managed to have our whole family...
created by Paschen | 49 wks ago | updated 47 wks ago 639 views | 88 recommendations | 17 comments
Parental love has no bounds: Pakistan man pardons son who threw him out of house A recent happening in Mazaffargarh district of Pakistan’s Punjab province has reinvigorated that the parental love has no bounds. According to a newspaper report, a man threw his parents out of...
Kinda like those wake up lines at the side of the road... .. only more musical." Local officials say it was a mistake to allow a television commercial company to grind grooves into a stretch of desert roadway near Lancaster to enable car tires to play a song -- "The...
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Evan Tanner, the former UFC Middleweight and USWF Heavyweight champion was found dead in the desert mountain area near Palo Verde, California, he was 37. His body was found 2 miles from his campsite in a...
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Well, this sounds incredible; combining sun and seawater to make deserts yield food:" The Sahara forest project will use seawater and solar power to grow food in greenhouses across the desert. Photograph: Exploration Architecture Vast...
A dust storm late Saturday night chased some participants away from the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, before the traditional climax of the whole event."Roger Farschon, incident commander for the...
created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1594 views | 16 recommendations | 4 comments
To the candidates - further proof that being all Talk and No action is going to result in remarkable climactic changes. To those in the McCain Camp, please read the article about what Palin is supporting...
created by phoenixesrose | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 732 views | 19 recommendations | 10 comments
"A tiny rectangle superimposed on the vast expanse of the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe's carbon emissions by harnessing the fierce power of the desert sun. Dwarfed by...
created by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 280 views | 2 recommendations | 5 comments
By, Uwe Paschen. The History of the Sahel Desert is a very long and fascinating one as well! Human have lived, hunted and farmed here for the longest time of all areas on this Planet Earth! The first Humans...
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"A couple days ago we drove with Mike to a jobsite to check on the progress. He called me out of the van to look at a clump of caterpillars hanging from a bush. As we looked around, we noticed that they were...
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