| UN urges forum to protect animals from climate change | | UN urges forum to protect animals from climate change
A senior United Nations official urged a 171-nation U.N. wildlife forum on Sunday to take action to help protect animals from climate change.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) will also discuss measures at its two week-week meeting to help commercially valuable animal and tree species threatened by over-use.
A U.N. report has said human activities were wiping out three animal or plant species every hour and has urged the world to do more to slow the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs by 2010.
Global warming, blamed mainly on human use of fossil fuels, is widely expected to add to existing threats and wreck habitats like the Amazon rain forest.
"CITES is not a forum for discussing climate change but decisions taken here do have an impact on species in a climatically challenged world," Shafgat Kakaklhel, deputy head of the U.N. Environment Programme, told the opening session.
"We will need robust species populations if they are to survive rising temperatures and more extremes," he said.
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| | Do you have any tips to add to this list? | | 101 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP THE EARTHRecycle plastic, glass, and newspapers. Save your aluminum cans and bring them to school to be recycled. Plant new trees and flowers - plants use carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the air. If the place you are going to is close enough, walk or ride your bike rather than have your parents drive you. Take shorter showers- a ten-minute shower uses over 100 gallons of water. Save water- use a broom rather than a hose to clean patios and walkways. Don't use artificial fertilizers on your lawn or garden. Start a compost pile and use it to fertilize the garden. Take a reusable bag to the store when you are only buying a couple of items. Tell the clerk to save a tree and carry your items out of the store in your hands- don't forget the receipt. Use paper cups rather than Styrofoam cups. Better yet, don't use disposable cups at all- wash them instead.
Turn off items that use electricity when you are not using them. Reduce the amount of time you watch TV. Read a book or play outside instead. Form car-pools to school and encourage your parents to get in a car-pool for work. But products that... | |
| | Brazilian Baroque | | Sugar barons had a sweet tooth for deliciously carved cabinets. In the 18th century, when about 70 percent of the world’s gold was mined in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, freshly minted millionaires went for baroque. Working in the mother style of Portuguese baroque, skilled Brazilian artisans, many of African descent, delivered eye-popping furniture that dazzled as brilliantly as gold. ”Colonial Brazilian is like colonial American furniture,” says Hurrell. “As cabinetmakers grew more confident, they strayed from the pattern books and became freer, less retrained by convention.” Without looking over their shoulders, Brazilian artisans crafted furniture with a new look—pumped-up proportions and more dramatic cuts. A handsome rosewood table sports super sized ball-and-saucer legs and spiraling twist supports that appear to spin in place. A leafy apron looks less like hand-carving and more like natural growth. | |
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| | electric guitars | | well some of the most amazing guitar are the jackson sl2h soloist .and one more thing.for an ideal guitar,
the following have to be chosen...
wood for body:
alder -good for overall range of tones and especially for bands that have a single guitarist where he needs to switch roles between a lead and a rhytm.mahagony:good not so harsh.and a warm tone may also follow but however mahagony is porous so it may absorb sweat .[if the coating paint comes off so even if u buy mahagony wood guitars never choose one with natural wood colour without any finish..maple:very heavy and has got a bright tone as well.avoid:basswood and agathis[cheaper model guitars have this wood for making guitars]basswood is very soft and if u even scratch it ur'e fingernail imprint will come ..but it may be liked int its tone by some..neck:maple is the best fretboard:ebony[for fast fretting and twang sound as associated with fender stratocaster] and rosewood[brazilian or indian .brazilian is the best and is rarer]bridge:floyd rose and beginners avoid a guitar with tremolo as... | |
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