If there weren’t any mushrooms, our world would be one medium garbage dump. Mushrooms play an important role in the world by breaking down plant and animal material. Mushrooms are fungi. Fungi are as uniquely different from plants as plants are from animals. In fact, fungi and animals are now in the same super-kingdom, Opisthokonta....

Earth itself is not a renewable source of energy, it has limits. We humans are morons to plunder it and accelerating a one way trip. Leave the pity Earth, we have the Sun to offer all the energy we crave for. -Words by Din

Eco Preservation : Dead Sea may not go Dead, Red Sea-to-Dead Sea water deal

The Dead Sea also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east andIsrael to the west. Its surface and shores are 427 metres (1,401 ft) below sea level, Earth's lowest elevation on land. The Dead Sea is 306 m (1,004 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. With 34.2% salinity (in 2011), it is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, though Lake Vanda Antarctica (35%), Lake Assal (Djibouti) (34.8%), Lagoon Garabogazköl in...

Know : Basel Convention ( Treaty to prevent transfer of Hazardous Waste between Nations)

What is the Basel Convention? The Basel Convention is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries (LDCs). It does not, however, address the movement of radioactive waste. The Convention is also intended to...

Know : The Tree of Ténéré : The End of the most isolated pal

The Tree of Ténéré, was a solitary acacia, of either Acacia raddiana or Acacia tortilis, that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth- the only one for over 400 kilometres (250 mi). It was a landmark on caravan routes through the Ténéré region of the Sahara in northeast Niger, so well known that it and the Arbre Perdu or 'Lost Tree' to the north are the only trees...