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Biodiversity and food security

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As covered in this post on World Biodiversity Day, the theme for this year’s celebration is “Biodiversity and Agriculture,” highlighting the role of biological diversity in keeping our people fed today and in the future. A high biodiversity is crucial to sustainable agriculture, the only kind of food production [...] Continue Reading…

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Pollution and loss of biodiversity.

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants to an environment, according to wikipedia. Pollutants are not necessarily toxic chemicals that poisons the air we breathe, soil we stand on, and water we drink. Even chemicals seen as beneficial like fertilizers, which in reasonable amounts can boost crop production, becomes a [...] Continue Reading…

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Why is biodiversity important?

Why does biodiversity matter? Let’s first have a closer look at the word. Biodiversity is a shortened and blended form of biology and diversity. The Encyclopedia of Earth has a brief but accurate definition of it: variety of living organisms.

There are three kinds of biodiversity: (1) variety of genetic [...] Continue Reading…

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Celebrate the World Biodiversity Day!

Biodiversity is the total number of species or life forms within any given ecosystem. The more varied the species, the healthier the earth is. Even cockroaches have their uses.

To celebrate a healthy Earth, the UN established International Day for Bilogical Biodiversity, which is celebrated every May 22, intending to [...] Continue Reading…

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Is global warming the cause of genocide in Darfur?

Why is Darfur in the news? Darfur–loosely translated as land of the Fur, the dominant tribe in this western region of Sudan– has been the scene of another ethnic cleansing in Africa reminiscent of the Rwandan Genocide. This time, it’s the Sudan government and a nomadic arab tribe, the [...] Continue Reading…

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Celebrate World Environment Day on June 5.

It’s never too early to prepare for World Environment Day. We can, in fact, start celebrating it now. :) The said environmental holiday was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 as part of the United Nations Environmental Programme (wikipedia.org). It’s main purpose is to “stimulate awareness [...] Continue Reading…

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Tesla electric roadster: the hottest eco-friendly car.

The electric vehicle was first realized in the mid-1880s but PayPal co-founder Elon Musk wanted to take electric cars to the next level so maybe that’s why he named his company after Nikola Tesla, a pioneer in electromagnetism. When we first came across the site of the Tesla [...] Continue Reading…

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Animals affected by global warming.

A study in the Ecological Applications journal published by the Ecological Society of America takes a look at arctic animals and how global warming affects them. As discussed in our previous post on 10 effects of global warming, marine arctic animals are threatened by arctic shrinkage or melting of [...] Continue Reading…

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Top ten eco-friendly mother’s day gifts.

During the month of May, we usually puzzle over the perfect mother’s day gift. Isn’t it a coincidence we also call nature as “mother?” So why not look for something that celebrate both our nurturing mothers and mother nature? For those who are still at a loss on what [...] Continue Reading…

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Treasure Nature made it to EntreCard favorites.

Please bear with this very short post. Treasure Nature was featured in Entrecard Favorites in celebration of Earth Day. Read all about it here. We know, it’s not a Pulitzer but we’re happy TN got acknowledge for blogging about nature and the environment.

Thank you. :D

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