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 | Environment This section contains articles about science, nature, medicine, anthropology, health and the human spirit. | |
| | | | | |  Vitreous opacity vs. nervous system - Do eye floaters arise from the visual nervous system? by Floco Tausin
In ophthalmology, "eye floaters" is a collective term for vitreous opacities which are attributed to different causes. In most cases, the phenomenon is considered a non-pathological (idiopathic) age-related clouding of the vitreous body. This wide-sprea | | | |  Nightmare in New Zealand: The Astrolabe Reef Disaster by Binoy Kampmark
It has all the makings of a growing catastrophe. The 236m Rena, inclined and spilling oil into pristine seas on Astrolabe Reef 14 miles off Tauranga, New Zealand, providing a murderous cargo that has already killed hundreds of fish and sea birds. Three | | | |  Mini makes its debut by The Ovi Team
Aug 26th 1959; the British Motor Corporation (BMC) launches its newest car, the small, affordable - at a price tag of less than $800 - Mark I Mini. The diminutive Mini went on to become one of the best-selling British cars in history. | |
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| | |  Voyager reaches Neptune by The Ovi Team
August 25th 1989; the unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft has sent back the first close-up pictures of Neptune and its satellite planets. Neptune is over two billion miles from Earth - the most distant planet in our solar system. Scientists at Mission Control i | | | |  Corporatism or Survival on Earth? by Newropeans-Magazine
Globalized commerce and finance have taken over the planet and the majority of nations are above all anxious to keep up the pace with the rest of the frightened sycophants to the Empire, anxious not to fall behind when and where the big profits are being | | | |  Killer Sprouts and Deadly Cucumbers: The Food Battles of Europe by Binoy Kampmark
It all seemed straightforward - initially. German authorities fingered the cause of 22 deaths and hundreds of illnesses as Spanish, a vegetable nightmare from Iberia that had come in the form of the innocuous cucumber. Spanish growers were furious at th | | | |  The Coming Water Crisis by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Nearly 71% of our earth is covered with water of which only 2.5% is fresh water, and the remainder 97.5% is salt water. Of this fresh water nearly 70% (or 1.75% of total water) is frozen in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland. The remainder 0.75% of | | | |  Christmas Island tests by The Ovi Team
May 15th 1957; Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean. | | | |  Earth Day by The Ovi Team
Each year, Earth Day - April 22 - marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. | | | |  Japan's tsunami, made me rethink European nuclear energy issues... by Christos Mouzeviris
With the latest shocking and dramatic developments in Japan, the issue of the use of the nuclear energy comes in the spotlight again. Japan, one of the most developed and rich countries and the third largest economy of the world is being hit by a massive | | | prev | | next | | |
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