The speed of the Brazil’s Amazon rainforest deforestation is gaining massive proportions. The rainforest is now disappearing at 3 football fields per minute speed and is approaching a level of destruction from which it will never recover. Some areas...
Climate change has been recognized over the years for its role in influencing the economic state of a country. This crucial role is underscored more so in the development of the agricultural sectors of an economy through the sudden...
The recent deployment of China’s military into South China Sea Islands has elicited criticism from the United States of America. The territorial dispute which was expected to remain an Asian affair has drawn the interest and involvement of other...
Depleted uranium (DU) is the remnants after the removal of the highly radioactive elements (isotopes) of uranium used in the production of nuclear weapons and nuclear fuels. The DU used in enhanced armour protection and armour-piercing munitions for Abrams...
The world has become a global technological hub and technology cuts across almost every aspect of life. Some people even argue that it can address some of the world's most intriguing problems such as hunger. Whether that argument is...
The last few months have been bizarre - to say the least - for the locals of Hong Kong. 240,000 protesters marched the streets of Hong Kong to protest against the controversial extradition bill that could potentially challenge the...
Climate change is on the verge of changing for the worst. The United Nations Climate Change Special Report of 2018 showed that we may have only 12 years or so for global warming to be kept at bay which...
The world has heard of the genocide committed by Nazi Germany on Jews during World War II. The media talks about genocides in the Soviet Union during the reign of Stalin. But what do we know about genocides in...
The Amazon tropical rainforest has an area of approximately 3.4 million-square mile. It currently represents more than half of the remaining tropical rain forests in the world. It is located in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname...
Scientists believe that Africa may have held as many as 20 million elephants in pre-European colonization. In 1979, the figure was only 1.3 million. Over just seven years (2007-2014), the elephant population decreased by at least 30 percent (ca....
