Blog – Page 1190 – Shamskm: A site to exchange knowledge and solutions

Extinction rate is higher, says the German Environment Minister

German Environment Minister, Sigmar Gabriel told a conference in Bonn that extinction rate for plants and animals is hundred to thousand times higher than the natural trend. It’s a U.N. biodiversity conference that plans to work out lines to slow down the extinction by 2010. Target line is too short. But steps to move forward are promising. Reuters news.

(more…)

Vitamin D: saves from Prostate to Breast Cancer

Health

When exposed to sunlight our skin produces vitamin D, mainly the form called D₃. It’s important for bones. Deficiency can cause rickets (deformed bone growth) in children and osteoporosis (bone fracture) in adults, among many other health problems.

(more…)

Polar Bears (getting attention)

Environment

It’s old news already. But good to hear again. Polar bear is now in the list of endangered species of U.S government. Polar bears sea ice habitat has melted dramatically in recent decades (a clear sign of global warming). And further receding of polar ice is likely in the coming years (45 years in the count that the PBs will face trouble harder).

(more…)

Exhilaration…..ohh…..well….!!

Culture

Q: When in your career did you find life to be the most exhilarating?

Answers:

(more…)

Arsenic in the park and phytoremediation

Environment

When the U.S Geological Survey geographer Terry Slonecker was going through aerial photographs, he could easily detect the stress and stunted growth of trees and grass in the park in Washington that led him to conclude its arsenic. He was in fact looking for arsenic in a nearby area used for military activities in World War I. But the park has no history of WWI activities rather it goes back to the American Civil War which occurred between 1861 to 1865. But how it could leave arsenic there?

(more…)

Friends, if you need a ‘friend’s definition :-)

Culture

If you are ‘natural-type’, fine. You are flexible. But if you are ‘suspicious-type’ or ‘question-type’, may be you need a norm 🙂 . Ya, we are about to know ‘friend’s definition.

There are 18 entries in dictionary.com for ‘friend’. It can be a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard, or a person whom one knows, likes and trusts (these two seems to be the best ones).

(more…)

Wind energy, the next riding horse of power

Environment

As U.S Department of Energy (DOE) doing a feasibility study to generate 20% of power for Americans from wind energy, turbine industries can be a new lucrative market for investors. The approximate time planned is by 2030. More than 20 years at hand. The turbine market will be advancing tremendously in the coming decades. That’s a certainty.

(more…)

Do animals sense natural events?

Culture, Environment

Were these natural warning of an impending earthquake in the mountainous Sichuan province in China – there is much news coming out now, something that could look like superstitions. As the news emerges, three days before the earthquake thousands of toads appeared on the streets on Mianzhu city or hours before the unusual behaviour of lions, zebras and other animals at the zoo in Wuhan. What the human perception could not catch, animals could!!

(more…)