The Taklamakan desert

The Taklamakan desert is one of the largest deserts in the world, just a little smaller than the popular African Sahara desert. It currently covers about 130.300 square miles of…

Causes of Environmental Pollution and possible solutions

Various human activities and the quest to attain the highest possible comfort has resulted in the overexploitation of the environment with consequent damage to the natural world. Our industries pour…

Deforestation: Human causes and solutions

Deforestation is the removal of trees and vegetation in a place, resulting in conversion of wooded land to bare land. This removal could be due to two major factors; human…

If we get rid of mosquitoes, what next?

There are 3,500 named species of mosquito, of which only a couple of hundred bite or bother humans. They live on almost every continent and habitat, and serve important functions…

The Story of Bitter Cola

Bitter Kola (Garcinia kola) is one of the popular names in orthodox medicine, with a great spiritual and socio-economic significance in many African Cultures.  It is known and used in…