Africa has a reputation of being an extremely dry continent. After all, 300 million people in Africa don’t have regular access to clean and safe drinking water, so that must be the case. Not necessarily.
Once a forest is gone, it’s gone forest, especially if what replaces it is dry, arid land the becomes a virtual desert. While for millennia that may have been the case, it’s not necessarily true anymore.
Are you looking for an easy way to support the environment? Ecosia.org gives you a way to do that just by performing internet searches.
If you’re associated with a scout troop, work with school groups or maybe even an avid gardener, chances are you have heard of seed bombs.
Weather modification sounds like a term out of a sensationalistic movie, doesn’t it? Yet, it’s something that occurs almost every day in the massive country of China.
Located in southeastern Siberia north of the Mongolian border is Lake Baikal, the oldest freshwater lake in the world.
You may not be ready to become a complete vegan like your neighbor or even switch to a Lacto-Ovo vegetarian lifestyle, but cutting down your food intake to one or two meatless meals per week and limited the amount of meat in your other meals can have a tremendous impact on the environment.
The number of storms per year and the strength of each storm are two indicators that these weather events have intensified since the beginning of the 20th century.
Wetlands are also incredibly important to protect human settlements and natural habitats from flooding. They are a sort of natural sponge and as such are able to absorb massive amounts of water.
Desertification refers to a complicated ecological process and in general it does not get the media attention or press times that is warranted by this serious issue.
With extreme droughts like those in California and many states reporting that they are in “water stress” conditions, what you do around your home and yard is more important than ever.
Here at the Great Gathering, we understand that one of the biggest environmental challenges in our lifetime is saving the Brazilian rainforest from destruction.
