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Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
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Air of threat
Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.
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Ipact of deforestation on medicinal plants in Ghana : research paper / Emmanuel Boon, Albert Ahenkan.
Boon, Emmanuel K.Date: 2008- Digital Images
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Nepal; deforestation in the Khumbu, 1986. Stacked firewood outside a Sherpa house at Phakding (altitude 3200 metres). Also shown are carrying baskets (bottom right) and prayer flags attached to thin sticks stuck into the ground. In common with many smallholdings, the ground floor of the house is reserved for animals while the family lives upstairs. By the early 1980s, it was estimated that massive deforestation was contributing to the loss of 240 million cubic metres of topsoil in Nepal each year. Sherpas rely on wood for fuel but lack of chimneys in most homes contribute to the coughs and bronchial congestion common to most. Poor hygiene is prevalent because precious wood must be destroyed to create hot water.
Carole Reeves- Books
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Ten years' examinations : a complete set of all the written examination questions given in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the City of New York. Medical department of Columbia College 1880-1891.
De Forest, Henry Pelouze, 1864-1948.Date: [1891?]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001603: Photograph depicting a cleared field terraced to avoid the washing-away of the fertile top-soil by tropical rainfall
Date: 20 January 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/15/1Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001602: Photograph depicting the clearing of a "virgin" forest in Java
Date: 20 January 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/14/100Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive