The USA and the world economy are not only threatened with recession, but with a fundamental realignment of our mostly credit-based consumerist society. How long can this principle of an enormous supply of and demand for consumer...

Extinctions in the animal and plant worlds are happening so quickly that I'm in danger of losing things to photograph in the near future. While surfing the internet I stumbled on the website of the "Alliance for Zero...

Orcas, also known as Killer Whales or Grampus, are contaminated in Norway with dangerous chemicals such as PCBs, pesticides and bromide fire retardants. Probes were taken from animals in the Tysford Fjord by the Norwegian coast....

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My theory is that the up and coming economic powers, particularly China and the Tiger states, want to beat the western economic system with its own weapons. They flood the world market with the commodities which...

I am back again from my latest trip to the Orcas in Norway. Unfortunately the weather was far too warm again, which meant rain and lots of wind. All the clouds made the light conditions particularly difficult for underwater...

Bad news for whales. The Japanese whaling fleet wants to carry on killing Minke Whales and now even Fin Whales for supposedly scientific reasons. Must the Japanese eat whalemeat? An online article in the Spiegel collects the...

The best-selling US author Jared Diamond writes about vanishing resources, climate change, overpopulation and ecological damage in his book Collapse. His description of the downfall of a culture on Easter Island is a clear...

With this entry I would like to advertise for investment in a piece of nature, as a shareholder of the Grüne Band. You can acquire a piece of what used to be the border strip between East and West Germany. Buying a share helps to...

I have decided to take part in the "Sardine Run" in Port St. John in South Africa again. The Sardine Run is an unpredictable phenomenon which can take place between the middle and end of June. Scientists suspect that it happens...

Jobs or no jobs. If China continues to boom, natural resources will become increasingly scarce and prices will rise accordingly. That is an economic problem to start with, but it is much worse what is actually done with the raw...