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Deforestation: Destroying the rain forest as the world population increases

This is a quick understanding of the effects of overpopulation and deforestation in our world as they are two important issues that will and has affected our world, already. So we need to reduce it's impact...

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Clipped Wings

 The following is a poem that touches on many subjects. I have added images and video in hopes of giving you a full experience. Some of the pictures and most of the video can be considered disturbing. I do...

2 comments    education politics america
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Restoring the Early Church, Reliance on Scripture, and Achieving Unity

Almost every individual who has had a significant impact on the kingdom since the time of Jesus has had a desire to restore the New Testament church; no group or individual has the corner on restoration...

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Revealing the Daily Destruction of the World's Tropical Rainforests

Photo courtesy: Getty Images The tropical Amazon rainforest is often referred to as “the lungs of the Earth”; but, the truth is that any forest can lay claim to that title. Forests are crucial for...

1 comment    deforestation financial prosperity
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Global Warming, Climate Change Solutions

UN Convention on Climate Change / Global Warming Solutions Katrina in New Orleans brought home  the disastrous threat of global warming in stark and tragic clarity. The Maldives, their island culture...

0 comments    politics energy science
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How to Handle the Heat

Our world is being drowned in green. Al Gore is showered with prizes for alerting the world to An Inconvenient Truth, urging us to each play our part while his mansion and private jets produce emissions...

0 comments    global warming land liberal
This Ancient myrtle forest at Arthur River, in the Tarkine, is supposed to be protected. Instead it is being decimated for wood chip. This timber, if used for furniture, is worth  $1500 per cubic metre. Gunns pays around $10 per ton.74

A Worm in the Apple

This Ancient myrtle forest at Arthur River, in the Tarkine, is supposed to be protected. Instead it is being decimated for wood chip. This timber, if used for furniture, is worth $1500 per cubic metre. Gunns...

6 comments    pollution deforestation
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News That May Interest Sci-Fi Fans

And now for some science news that I found fascinating, and other geeky people may find interesting as well. Dr Henrik Ehrsson, neuroscientist working at UCL (University College London) has discovered a...

0 comments    green disease global warming
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Deforestation in the Amazon

The biggest percent of deforested land in the Amazon basin is used as grazing land for livestock and farming land. Deforestation also occurs due to development projects in the area, such as building dams and...

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A new Star Trek movie

"Space...the final frontier, these are the voyages of the starship Enterprise..." That's the way William Shatner began each TV episode of Star Trek. The original series ran in the mid 1960's and was not very...

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