News & Articles By Frances Bloomfield
04/20/2017
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By Frances Bloomfield
Has Mount Everest become the world’s tallest garbage dump?
As a popular tourist trekking destination, abandoned garbage has become a problem for the world’s highest peak. Discarded cooking and oxygen cylinders, food packets, and tents are just some of the items that continue to litter the face of the mountain. As OurWorld.unu.enu notes, there is still no method of efficiently managing solid waste during […]
04/19/2017
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By Frances Bloomfield
Butterfly population numbers plunge across the UK as mass animal die-offs accelerate
The population of butterflies in the UK has sharply dwindled, conservationists have revealed. According to the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, 40 of the 57 assessed species witnessed significant declines in 2016, making it the fourth worst year on record for butterflies. The drop occurred in spite of the dry and warm summer, reports DailyMail.co.uk. “The […]
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