Too Much In The Sun

Posted in: Environment, Featured by Catalina Toma | March 24th 2011 | no comments

Turn off the lights please! Make it day time! And there came the day with its breaking dawns and its bright sun… What if I end up wishing I could turn off and on in whatever moment pleases me the light of the sun or the light of the moon? If you had a button that would [...]

Top 8 Interesting Yet Weird Plants

By Catalina Toma | October 15th 2010 | no comments

We can find a wide variety of plants in the world today, 375,000 species of plants if we are to be more exact, yet there are even more to be discovered every day. They come in different shapes, colors and scents. You may enjoy some of them and dislike others yet there are still some of them that have remained unknown to you. Some of these plants may be labeled as strange when you happen [...]

Top 10 Interesting Natural Phenomena

By Catalina Toma | October 15th 2010 | no comments

How about what people call getting back to nature? Are you one of the persons who embrace this idea? You should, mainly because nature gives us unique landscapes all of them meant to delight our senses and sometimes leave us completely stunned in front of the miraculous phenomena that can take place in nature. Not all of these phenomena have answers or at least scientists didn’t manage [...]

10 Delicious, Weird Looking Fruits And Vegetables

By Catalina Toma | October 14th 2010 | 4 comments

Fruits, vegetables and plants can be found in abundance in this world of ours. More or less tasty, they come in all shapes and colors, bringing benefits to our skin or only to our health and taste. Sour or sweet they all come as a blessing whenever we may feel like tasting them. There must be thousands of them on Earth, some of them looking odd as they may have a pretty weird shape or [...]

10 Of The World’s ‘Burning Mountains’ That Make The Difference

By Catalina Toma | October 14th 2010 | no comments

Even though a natural catastrophe is a catastrophe as its name actually suggests it, volcanic eruptions are considered by many of us to be the most dangerous forms of natural rebellion if one may say so. Those living in countries or regions placed under the immediate threat coming from a volcano certainly understand the whole theory of volcanic eruptions as they feel the fear deeply [...]

10 Ways To Save Water

By Catalina Toma | October 14th 2010 | no comments

According to a World Water Vision Report "There is a water crisis today. But the crisis is not about having too little water to satisfy our needs. It is a crisis of managing water so badly that billions of people - and the environment - suffer badly."  Water is a vital element in our lives and as such we should learn to value it and do not waste it in a reckless manner. The best [...]

10 Things You Can Do To Harm The Environment

By Catalina Toma | October 13th 2010 | no comments

We keep talking about the environment and what we can do to protect it, yet our daily actions seem to contradict our eternal faked or sincere preoccupation with what surrounds us. Probably most people do care about the environment yet they are reluctant to change their habits. Most of us choose to adopt ignorance when it comes to such issues as the growing amounts of fossil fuels being [...]

What Is There That Can Be Done To Reduce Global Warming?

By Catalina Toma | October 13th 2010 | no comments

Do you identify yourself among the people who think that no matter what they will do it won’t make any difference when it comes to environment related threats? You probably heard about global warming since it has lately become a largely mediatized subject. You keep hearing [...]

Home Of Pollution.The World’s Most Polluted Cities

By Catalina Toma | October 13th 2010 | no comments

Have you ever been interested in finding out the most polluted cities in the world? You most probably tend to think that your city is the noisiest, most polluted one, yet significant researches have been made and they showed that you may be wrong. Yet, if you happen to find your city [...]

The Impact Of Human Actions On Antarctica And Its Creatures

By Catalina Toma | October 13th 2010 | one comment

What would be the proper words to discover Antarctica? Most probably when thinking about this area one would describe it using such words as freezing, cold, barren, ice-covered, white, icebergs, penguins and the almost all prevailing icy atmosphere. It is what many consider to be a unique eco-system providing home for some of the world’s most beautiful creatures. Yet, at the same time [...]

Is Noise Pollution Annoying To you?

By Catalina Toma | October 12th 2010 | no comments

Were there any moments in your life when you felt like getting your hands to your ears, pressing hard on them so as to be able to obtain one single moment of silence? We all tend to praise silence when we come to miss its absence from our lives and crave for it whenever we may feel stressed or tired. Are you able to find it in your crowded metropolis? I honestly do not think you are [...]

Can Trees Be Considered Our Tacit Friends?

By Catalina Toma | October 12th 2010 | no comments

You most likely enjoy taking long walks in the park or in the forest if you happen to have one in the nearby area of your city. If you are interested in the art of photography you most probably took hundreds of photos, surprising nature in a vast array of hypostases. You most probably love the landscape being offered to you by nature, no matter what season. You surely like trees and if [...]

Do Green Products Interest You?

By Catalina Toma | October 12th 2010 | no comments

We keep hearing about all sort of green products which are meant to lower the carbon footprint and help improve the environmental conditions in which we live today. As the world is being more and more affected nowadays due to the rather catastrophic effects of global warming, these green products come for some as a heavenly gift and for some as another reason to arouse their skepticism. [...]

Green Cell Phones-A New Trend?

By Catalina Toma | October 11th 2010 | no comments

We live in an era of consumerism and as such there is no wonder that large companies do everything to please their clients. If the trend is going towards the green color, as there has been an increased interest in protecting the environment, so did the cell phone manufacturers. As such, [...]

Green Homes Belonging To Green Celebrities

By Catalina Toma | October 11th 2010 | no comments

I would start this article by compelling you to make an exercise involving imagination. Let’s begin by imagining that you have been living in a small or large apartment, yet still an apartment foe quite a long time now, and that you have always wanted to have your own house, a wonderful small or big house on the ground. It depends on how everyone imagines it to be. Ok, now that you [...]

A Mouth Full Of Oxygen-Hybrid Cars

By Catalina Toma | October 11th 2010 | no comments

Did you ever think about what happens when you get into your car and starting your engine you make for a certain place? We enjoy the comfort cars offer to us, giving us the possibility to move from one place to another, yet most of us seem not to give any thought to what is coming out of the tailpipe as we go about our drive. Mostly they release into the air carbon dioxide, sulphur [...]

Human Beings Versus Nature

By Catalina Toma | October 11th 2010 | no comments

Each historical stage, each social arrangement takes its specific toll on nature and all humanized landscape, due to the different ways in which human beings choose to relate with nature. The main attributes of our age are to be given by the technical, economical and political development. Have you ever given a thought to the way things used to be in the past when it comes to the [...]

Giant Pandas An Endangered Species Of Animals

By Catalina Toma | October 9th 2010 | no comments

Can you imagine a world without animals? It must be pretty difficult for you to picture a world without animals, yet you should find out that each day that passes might bring us closer to such a world, and this mainly because of our actions. You most likely enjoy seeing documentaries about giant pandas, or going to the zoo to see them. Yet the panda is extremely rare nowadays, being [...]

Is Man The World’s Greatest Predator?Endangered Species Of Elephants

By Catalina Toma | October 9th 2010 | no comments

Every time we go visit a zoo we seem to be fascinated by them, most probably because of their imposing stature and their immense size. I am referring to an animal that has intrigued people of many cultures, being considered by some to be some sort of gods, a proper royal escutcheon. People have taken their children to the circus to be entertained by them and they are widely appreciated [...]