Pandas eat bamboo, so why shouldn’t we? Many Asian cultures have used bamboo as a food source for centuries. But what exactly can bamboo offer to people as food and medicine? - Much more than originally thought.
Bamboo is rich in minerals and high in fiber, which can be a great addition to any nutritious, well […]
We all know a few facts about rainforests from Tarzan movies; for instance, in the rainforest you will find lush green vegetation, exotic animals, restless natives, and usually a few white men up to no good. But beyond those stereotypes, what are the real rainforest facts? What is the status of the world’s rainforests, and […]
Water has to be one of the most amazing things on our planet. It is everywhere in several different forms. It is found in the atmosphere of our planet and it takes on liquid form as well to rain down upon us in most places. There are fresh water sources and salt water sources. Water […]
While here in America we have been so wrapped up in our own recent events such as tropical storm Fay, hurricane Gustav, and the coming of possible hurricane Hannah, we have probably not given much thought to the hundreds of thousand of people in India that have been left homeless because of the recent flooding […]
Our Earth is largely covered by water and there are things underneath parts of it that mankind has never thus far been able to lay our eyes on. Although sonar and other techniques have been discovered and used as ways to see some of what lies beneath our seas and other bodies of water, there […]
Well it has finally been made official. Hurricane Gustav was a category three and was making a bee line straight for New Orleans and surrounding areas. This will be the second time in less than five years that New Orleans was expecting a direct hit from a hurricane that was category three, but there will […]
We commonly refer to the smoke that we see coming from the stacks of factories and plants as pollution. We call it pollution for a very good reason because that is exactly what it is. We have been polluting our air more and more over the past two hundred years and it has almost reached […]
In the spring time everyone welcomes the gentle rains that make the trees and flowers bloom. Farmers love it when the warm weather comes and the rain falls so that their seeds will sprout and begin to grow. Life is renewed and it is always pleasant to know that warm weather has come at last […]
There are over a million different species of animal have been discovered, and there mil1ions more up to now to be discovered. Animals are living breathing organisms found in nearly all of the Earth’s habitats that include the depths of the oceans, the freezing Arctic, and even inside other plants and animals.
The kingdoms were animals […]
September of 2008 will be remembered because of the 9/11 anniversary, but it will also be remembered because of the damage caused by Hurricane Ike. Much of the destruction that was caused by this category two hurricane took place in Texas and Louisiana along the coast lines of the Gulf of Mexico, but other areas […]
