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Good news from Afghanistan this week: the country declared its first internationally recognized national park today, called Band-e-Amir, which includes a striking series of six deep blue lakes in one of the country’s best-known natural areas. The area of Band-e-Amir is near the Bamyan Valley, where 1,500-year-old giant Buddha statues once stood before being destroyed [...]
The Yangtze Soft-Shell Turtle, or Swinhoe’s Turtle, is the rarest animal in the world. The survival of the species hangs entirely on the tender shell of its only known living female, which is set to mate this May. Scientists are hoping that Spring fever is still in the air for the 80-year-old turtle and her [...]
Earlier this month, one of Peru’s major newspapers reported that Disney might open a park about an hour south of Lima on Peru’s coast. Would a Disney theme park be good or bad for Peru? That’s the question that is now on many peoples’ minds. Comment threads on popular Peruvian and expatriate websites show a [...]
A farmer in Milwaukee is taking the green roof to the next level. Community Growers’ founder Erik Lindberg’s rooftop garden is yeilding enough organic produce to launch a CSA. [Photo via Community Growers CSA wiki] It’s really more than a rooftop garden, it’s a rooftop farm! Check out this interview with the farmer, including a [...]
