World Billion tree planting Mission, India Ranked 9th with 96 mi

UNEP launched a mission to plant billion tree in 2006, latest report says that four billion plant has been planted till date. In this mission of planting tree India stood 9th with 96 million trees."India has been ranked ninth in the tree planting roll of honour in a campaign...

Indian Plant Helps Maintain Blood Sugar and Cholesterol Balanced

" The extract of an Indian plant called Gymnema sylvestre helps maintain blood sugar and cholesterol at normal levels. The new extract, OmSanA, is a concentrated form of Om Santal Adivasi (OSA), the active...

Desperate Farmers of a dying environment.

By, Uwe Paschen. Desperate Farmers.   For decades now Farm communities around the globe have been bleeding by several factors. Politics comes to mind as well as Industry and mismanagement by the WTO, the...

The Obamas plan to plant a White House vegetable garden

Michelle Obama will start digging the White House vegetable garden today, well not her personally but her staff will anyway. There has not been a vegetable garden on the grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's garden...

Amazon Rainforest could be 85% gone in 100 years

Scientists at the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen this weekend, deliver some alarming news for the Amazon Rainforest: a rise in 4 degrees will kill off 85% of the whole forest in the next 100 years. The fact...

Japanese waste treatment plant recovers gold from sewage

A sewage treatment facility in Central Japan is recovering more gold per year from processed sewage than some of the country’s biggest mines can yield. The plant has reported recovering almost 2 kg of gold per...

The agricultural apocalypse and the upcoming food shortage.

By, Uwe Paschen.  Climatology and Agriculture are by far not a simple science nor easily understood by simply reading a couple of articles or even books about it. Why it is so difficult to follow and make sense...

Big solar power plant planned for northwest China

Two companies in China announced yesterday that they plan to build a huge solar power plant in the northwest, that could be the world's largest photovoltaic project. China Technology Development Group Corp will...

Merry Christmas: Plant a Tree This Christmas

Why This Project Why has the Conservancy begun the Plant a Billion Trees campaign? Because our forests are on the brink. Coastal development, urban expansion, agriculture, exotic plantations, ranching and...

Nfld. Premier Revokes Resource Lease, Ontario to Follow Suit?

Canada:  About two weeks ago, AbitibiBowater Inc. announced plans to shut down their century-old Grand Falls, Newfoundland pulp and paper mill early next year.  At that time there was widespread...

Mistletoe shortage could ruin Christmas kissing

A potential Mistletoe shortage could ruin the age old tradition of Christmas kissing, as the plant is in danger due to current farming methods. Due to a loss of ancient orchards and differing harvesting methods...

GM cancels shift at Oshawa, about 700 workers to be laid off, CAW says

Another blow to Ontario's economy:" TORONTO - General Motors Canada will temporarily lay off the third shift at its Oshawa car plant starting the first week of February, the Canadian Auto Workers said Thursday...

Solar Power and Photosynthesis: Breakthrough

US researchers have taken photosynthetic molecules from plants, attached them to gold sheets, and are harvesting solar power. Still in the intial stages of research." ...

Bruce Willis sues Petra and Tunku Imran

"Bruce Willis sues Petra and Tunku Imran BY B.K SIDHU PETALING JAYA: Hollywood actor Bruce Willis has sued the Petra Group and its chairman, Tunku Imran Tuanku Ja’afar, to recoup US$900,000...

Greenpeace blockades ageing Spanish nuclear plant

Greenpeace protestors blocked the entrance to a Spanish power plant today asking for the government to shut it down immediately due to the fact it uses nuclear power. It was set to close next year as it is."The...

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