Watch this captivating photofeature!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2007/jun/05/photography?picture=329977040

Remember, the planet's icy mountains are melting fast....and time is running out. Let's hope that earth's saviors working as individual and communities round the globe will successfully resolve the planet's environmental crisis.

And here are two must read articles!

This one is on helping children stay in touch with nature

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/wellbeing/story/0,,2095628,00.html

The second article is a news story about biofuels and how the Colombian paramilitary is driving poor farmers off their land

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,2095349,00.html


source: email communication from Mr Samuel Thomas, ATREE's Communications Officer

We have an interesting link from Dr Irfan

It's a Wiki Media venture called Wikispecies which claims to be a free directory of all living organisms.

You can see it at http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

The site has 99,392 articles.

An interesting link on the World Digital Library Initiative

You can explore it at http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/

This link was sent in by ATREE Librarian, Nithin. If you have an interesting idea about digital libraries and would like to discuss it further, please email Nithin at nithinl@atree.org

The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.

An interesting essay: Read it right now!

Here's an interesting essay that Dr Priyandarsanan Dharma Rajan recommends EcoWatch readers read right away.

Here's a quotation from the essay

".... Some quixotic writers have toyed with the idea of last-ditch measures. They say, “Let’s conserve the millions of surviving species and races by deep-freezing fertilized eggs or tissue samples for later resurrection.”

Or,

“Let’s record the genetic codes of all the species and try to re-create organisms from them later.”

Follow this link to read the full essay http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/21/675/

The essay is written by Dr E.O. Wilson, world-renowned biologist and Harvard University Professor and adapted from his new book titled, “The Creation".

Dr Wilson has won two Pulitzer Prizes for his books titled, “On Human Nature” and “The Ants.”

If you wish to discuss about this stimulating essay, then please get in touch with Dr Priyan at mailto:priyan@atree.org