Imagine loving someone so much that you’d swim more than 5,000 miles to see them. Dindim manages to swim that far every single year to visit his friend Joao Pereira de Souza in Brazil.
Fighting For The Amazon
More than twenty men hired by an oil company hacked through the Ecuadorean jungle. Suddenly, they found themselves surrounded by a large group of indigenous people called the Cofan. The newcomers were clearly outnumbered. In the last five years, several oilmen had been beaten or killed by various tribes inside the jungle.
Death Of An Ancient Tree
The oldest tree in the world died one day in 1964. Its name was Prometheus, and Donald Currey cut it down. It was not only the oldest tree, but the oldest living thing ever recorded. Currey wasn’t an un-caring logger or farmer making room for crops. He was a 30-year-old graduate student doing research into climate change throughout history.
Battle For The Bees
It’s no secret that the number of bees around the world is decreasing. Bees are simply leaving their hives and never coming back. This is called Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD. Scientists aren’t 100% sure why it’s happening, but it spells big trouble for humans. Many of the foods humans eat depend on bees for pollination.
Hubris
In the 1950’s China was working to transform from an agricultural society to a communist industrial society. Their leader, Mao Ze Dong, wanted to completely reshape society, and his efforts didn’t stop with humans. One of the strangest reforms of this period was an order to exterminate sparrows and other pests.
Gaia
Is our planet alive? Some who call our earth “Gaia” seem to think so. After all, something keeps the earth habitable for us. British chemist James Lovelock gave a lot of thought to the idea of “a single giant living system … with the capacity to keep the Earth always at a state most favorable for the life upon it.”
A World Without Bees
When most people think of honeybees, they think of honey. And while honey is delicious, honeybees actually serve a larger purpose: pollination. Pollination is the process of transferring pollen, which is necessary for many plants to reproduce.
Going Bananas
The humble banana is in trouble. Favorite fruit of body builders, practical jokes and gorillas for decades, it’s now threatened by a killer disease. But this isn’t the first time. Let’s back up a little. In 1900, the banana had gone mainstream, in US culture, US comedy, and US bellies. It was the golden age of the golden fruit, and times were good.
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