Climate change is one of the most controversial topics included in the Asian Development Bank’s 40th Annual Meeting in Kyoto, Japan, on May 6-7 this year. The ADB said in a dispatch that more than 3000 participants have already registered at the Kyoto International Conference Center. The conference is expected to bring in senior officials within the Asia-Pacific region […]
PETER WING’S DREAM CASTLE
PETER WING’S NEVERENDING (Recycled) DREAM CASTLE By Warren D. Jorgensen In 1968, Peter Wing brought Toni Simoncelli to the meadow overlooking his family’s 157-acre, century-old family farm and proposed to her. "He said," she remembers, "that he was going to build me a castle, and put me in it." "I did not." He says, lamely. […]
World’s Largest Seed Collection Receives a Multimillion Dollar Grant from Gates
A series of multi-million dollar grants have made it possible for few dozen of the world’s major food crops, almost always propagated clonally, to be stored as seed in Norway’s famous Svalbard (also called the “Doomsday Vault” in popular media) facility. Originally opened in 2006, Svalbard is just one of many germplasm repositories of valuable […]
Pirate or Terrorist
Are pirates terrorists. Yes and no may be a confusing answer but with some defining we may come to better understand this reasoning. The definition of terrorism has still not been universally accepted but the following will give us a better idea. Terrorism as an accepted term by the United States is […]
Peace remains elusive in Somalia
By Zachary Ochieng Despite the relocation of the embattled Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG)—formed in exile in Nairobi in December 2004— to the capital, Mogadishu, last month, peace still remains elusive. According to the United Nations, more than 50,000 people have fled Mogadishu in the past two weeks. A renewed fighting in the city has […]
The Horrific lives of Bhutan’s refugee
About 80 thousands Nepali speaking people from southern belt of Bhutan, who fled to Nepal for safe living during early 1990s when the then Bhutanese despotic regime forcefully evicted them, even hadn’t anticipated that they would waste 17 years of horrific lives in eastern division of Nepal as refugees. But, finally it twisted into a […]