The 5 hungriest animals - Ideas - GLOBAL IDEAS Blog - DW.COM
The 5 hungriest animals. 1. The American Pygmy Shrew (Sorex hoyi) With a pulse clocking in at more than a 1000 per minute, the smallest mammal in North America really needs lots of food to keep its phenomenal metabolism going. Every day it eats three times its own weight.
Bichirs: The fish that walk on land - Ideas - DW.COM
Aug 28, 2014 · Bichirs: The fish that walk on land. The fish on the picture on top is a bichir, and it belongs to a fish order quite fascinating for researchers. Especially one representative of the bichirs, that goes by the name of Senegal bichir or “dinosaur eel”, was of special interest lately.
Plastic bottles to greenhouses - Ideas - DW.COM
Aug 23, 2013 · Plastic bottles to greenhouses. A few days ago we received a very inspiring idea from Colombia. The e-mail came from the Centre for Science and Environmental Awareness and it helps to deal with growing mountains of empty plastic bottles.
The new Global Ideas page! - Ideas - GLOBAL IDEAS Blog - DW.COM
Feb 6, 2012 · Not only is the new site snazzier and even more user-friendly, you’ll find it easier to locate reports on the topics that interest you – from climate & society to biodiversity, renewable energy and last but not least climate adaptation.
Indian Companies Win “Green Oscars” - Ideas - GLOBAL IDEAS …
Braving hungry crocodiles, Asiatic lions, wild elephants and traveling in camel caravans– sound like an Indiana Jones movie? It’s what some election officials in India have faced in recent days trying to do their job.
‘Facing India’: Art by women from the subcontinent
Jun 4, 2018 · Her work examines hybrid identities, fantastic animals, creatures that are half tiger and half goat. The above work, a woman’s bare back with stamped names, focuses on the Kashmir conflict, part of a series of works dedicated to the constantly changing boundaries in the territorial skirmish.
Deforestation in Brazil jumps about 29% – our #numberoftheweek …
Sep 11, 2014 · On Wednesday, the Brazilian government released statistics showing that the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest jumped 29% last year. According to satellite data, 5,891 sq km of forest disappeared in the 12 months leading up to the end of July 2013. That is the equivalent of the size of the country of Puerto Rico.. One reason for the rebound in the deforestation rates is illegal ...
African journalists reach for the sky with drones
AfricanSkyCAM has also entered a partnership with CCTV Africa to give its audiences “a different perspective on Kenya’s wild spaces and wild animals.”
How to plant a tree inside a building - COP18 - DW.COM
1.1 billion people in the world don't have access to safe drinking water. In fact, even though it's 2014, we still have 1.6 million people dying from infections caused by the lack of safe drinking water and basic sanitation - 9 out of 10 of these are children under the age of 5.
The Beauty of Ice - Ideas - GLOBAL IDEAS Blog - DW.COM
These pictures have been made during a 7-day Training programme in arctic ice. During the excursion participants learned about polar climate-related issues and, at the same time, they saw the amazing beauty of the polar Arctic region.