Last year, nearly 50 million acres of Siberian taiga burned in one of the largest uncontrolled blazes of this century. Just the year before, 4.4 million acres of forest in California, and earlier a whopping 60 million acres in Australia were rocked by massive wildfires. The year before that, 2 million acres of the Amazon rainforest Read More…

In my last post, I wrote about the issue of deforestation from a very general, global sort of perspective. In this post, I’d like to focus on one of the places where deforestation is the most rampant, and has the potential to create the biggest impact on the world: the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon is Read More…

Coffee has become one of the most popular beverages in the United States. Many people have become dependent on its energizing effects in order to wake up and have a productive day. In fact, 62% of Americans drink at least one cup of coffee every day, and on average, Americans who do drink coffee have Read More…