Plots at Amazon rainforest being sold illegally in Facebook Marketplace

  Brazil’s protected rainforest including parts of national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples are being illegally sold via Facebook. The Californian social media giant said it was “ready to work with local authorities”, but indicated it would not take independent action of its own to halt the trade. Our commerce policies require buyers…

Hyundai Motor’s electric bus catches fire

  The City Bus, Hyundai Electric City Manufactured in 2019, caught fire in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province on February 15. The bus was moving back to the garage after repair and inspection as the fire started in the roof, where its battery was located. Fortunately, there were no passengers on the bus and no one…

New tunnel linking Kent and Essex will add 5m tonnes of CO2

A British government report published in March provisionally estimated the UK carbon emissions in 2019 to be 351.5 million tonnes. The traffic created by the road is expected to generate 3.2 million tonnes over 60 years. The Lower Thames crossing (LTC) the UK’s biggest roads project since the M25, a flagship project in the UK’s…

Climate Change: Species to shrink by 23 per cent by 2100

The University of Cambridge said mammals, birds  and amphibians globally could lose 23 per cent of their natural habitat range due to climate change and land by 2100. The species have lost an average of 18 per cent of their natural habitat. The latest study analysed changes in. the geographical range of 16, 919 species…

Large crack at Birling Gap

RNLI Coxwain MarK Swayer said the authorities understood   it was a beautiful place with stunning views, but a large crack at Birling Gap, the south coast near Eastbourne, has led to fresh warnings to people to keep away from dangerous cliff edges as the cliffs were crumbling and could fall at anythime. Mr Sawyer said…

50th Anniversary of the Earth Day – The Bee

50th Anniversary of the Earth Day and celebrate one of the smallest but most critical organisms. Did you know the bee pollinate two-thirds of our world’s crops and  85 per cent of the world’s flowering plants and vegetables? Bees are flying insects related to wasps and ants, especially the western honey bee is famous for…

Underwater Photographer  winners of 2020 competition

  Underwater Photographer of the year celebrates photography under the ocean, lakes, and rivers, with over 5, 500 underwater pictures from 70 countries around the world. French Greg Lacoeur is this year’s champion and a multi-award-winning wildlife photographer who dedicates his life to the marine world, living a nomadic lifestyle expressing the emotion of the…

Bolsanaro allows sugarcane cultivation in the Amazon

Mr.  Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president’s decision to allow sugarcane cultivation in the Amazon region has emerged  as a further obstacle to a trade deal between EU and South America, European Commission officials have warned. The EU sealed  a deal in June with the Mercosur bloc – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay after two decades…