These children do not have a very lucky childhood. A big part of the year they breathe the air full of dust and dangerous pollutants. Almost forty per cent of them suffer because of it from a dangerous illness – asthma. We do not speak, nevertheless, about an industrial suburb of Chinese Beijing, a shanty town of Indian Bombaii or slums in Rio de Janeiro.
The children just in the centre of Europe suffer like …
According to public opinion survey Eurobarometer, more than two out of three Europeans consider climate changes a very serious issue. Additionally, almost 80 per cent of people believe that adopting preventive measures against these changes may stimulate both the economy and employment.
The European public´s concern for climate changes is increasing. A comparison of the current survey with an earlier one from 2009 shows that the number of people who realize the seriousness of the …
A wolf made appearance in Belgium after more than one hundred years of absence. His visit to the countryside located around Gedinne in Namur, province of Wallonia, was recorded and shown on VRT TV channel.
The Wolf’s presence was proved after several killed sheep had been discovered over the course of the summer period. Such findings, uncommon in this area, stirred the attention of animal television programme makers “Dieren in nest”, and Flemish TV decided …
The number of Caucasian Wisents increased by 10 per cent last year. According to DPA agency, there are now 540 wild-living wisents populating the Western Caucasus while ten years ago there were only 220 of them.
The last wild Caucasian wisents were killed by poachers in 1927. At that time there were merely 48 captive species left. In order to save this Caucasian subspecies, they had to be cross-bred with their relative – American Bison.…
The ice covered area in the Arctic is the smallest since the use of climate-monitoring satellites in 1972. According to experts from the Bremen university, the diminishing of ice around the North Pole is not just a consequence but also a motor of global warming.
The Arctic ice coverage in the first half of September was 4.24 milions square kilometers which is the new historical minimum. Experts believe that the ice now covers about half …
