Coastal crisis: Mangroves at risk
Taken from UN Environment's August 2, 2017 article .
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Garbage of Eden
Garbage of Eden Want to be at one with nature? Take a stroll around Singapore’s island of trash. By Eric Bland SINGAPORE’S only landfill is a 20-minute ferry ride south from the main island. On Pulau Semakau, coconut trees and banyan bushes line an asphalt road. Wide-bladed grass, short and soft, forms a threadbare [1] carpet. The only visible trash is a bit of driftwood on the rocky shore, marking high tide in an artificial bay. Water rushes out of the bay through a small opening, making waves in the Singapore Strait. The smell of rain is in the air. You would never know that all the trash from Singapore’s 4.4 million residents is being dumped here 24 hours a day, seven days a week – as it will be for the next 40 years. This is no ordinary landfill: the island doubles as a biodiversity hotspot, of all things, attracting rare species of plants and animals. It even attracts ecotourists on specially arranged guided tours. Eight years in the making, the artificial island i
Why Blogger? + Our Efforts on Being Green
We chose to use the blogging platform Blogger (blogger.com) because it scored an amazing A in 2017 Greenpeace Click Clean report. Click on Korea on http://www.clickclean.org/ to see it for yourself + read this Korean article on the act. As a team working on a text related to we found it necessary to keep our work as eco-friendly as possible. Therefore, other than selecting Blogger for our blogging platform - despite its un-updated systems - we've: used the search engine called Ecosia ( ecosia.com ). According to Wikipedia, our good friend, Ecosia is: a web search engine based in Berlin, Germany, which donates 80% of its surplus income to nonprofit conservationist organizations, with a current focus on tree planting. printed the materials double-sided. Small, yet still significant...
