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  • Creative Nature Photography
    In every trip we make, we end up with an incredible amount of photos and most of them do not even show what we really witnessed at that particular moment.
  • Creative Landscape Photography
    Nature is capable of presenting us many magnificent vistas. That is when we feel an urge to capture such images. But sometimes, when we look at this photos at home, they do not look so dazzling.
  • Maps Of The World: Their Evolution Through The Ages
    Cartography, or map-making, is an ancient "art". Archeologists have found maps of the world dating from pre-Christian eras. The earliest world maps discovered were made by the Babylonians
  • Maps Of The World
    Map-making is an ancient activity. Evidence proves that the human being have been drawing maps in ages even before Christ. It has evolved greatly over the centuries, and we can consider map-making, or cartography, an art of its own.
  • Endangered Animals And The Struggle To Save Them
    The 21th century has begun, and with it came the perfecting of new "weapons" to fight against several species extinction. Biotechnology is what is now being used to help getting species out of the list of endangered animals.
  • The Sahara Desert: A Variety Of Images
    The Sahara desert is the largest desert in the world. It has got extreme temperatures, hyper-arid regions, scarce vegetation, and a unique fauna. The borders are less arid due to its neighbors: the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlas Mountains, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Nile and the Niger River, and the Sahel. But the most amazing fact about the Sahara is that it is inhabited even in the most arid parts. All these aspects amount to present us different images of the Sahara desert.
  • The Earth Is Calling For Help
    The Earth Day is coming, reminding us of this huge planet we have in our hands. The decisions we make now will reflect on our planet's future, and this planet is definitely calling for help.
  • Rainforest Animals: Borneo Island
    Rainforests are one of the richest ecosystems in the world. They are known as being "incubators" of life because almost every inch of it is covered with native plants, and these plants sustain millions of animal species. However, as many other biomes in different geographic areas, it is greatly threatened by logging, mining, cattle ranches, and especially agricultural farms. As a consequence of it, many rainforest animals are endangered of becoming extinct.
  • Amazon Rainforest Animals
    Most of the world's rainforests are located in Central and South America, West and Central Africa, and Southeast Asia. They are very wet areas near the equator that give true meaning to the expression "world of abundance", an expression that reflects on the variety of rainforest animals. Brazil holds 30% of all tropical rainforests that remain on Earth, and they are represented by Amazonia.
  • Marine Turtle: These Amazing Animals
    In every trip we make, we end up with an incredible amount of photos and most of them do not even show what we really witnessed at that particular moment. But what you need to realise is that creative nature photography is not just about seeing something nice, pointing your camera at it, and shooting. There are a few simple rules that once followed, would improve you nature photographs significantly.
  • Celebrating The Earth Day In 2008
    In 1969, John McConnell proposed at the UNESCO Conference on the Environment the creation of the Earth Day. He thought about having a day to symbolize everything related to nature and our planet. It is a day to think about Earth and the implication of our actions. In the following year, the United Nations president U Thant sanctioned the Earth Day, setting March equinox (around the 20th of March) as the day to celebrate it. Having that in mind, 2008 will be the 39th Earth Day celebration.
  • Climate Care
    For many years, we have been taking our environment for granted. We have been letting nature itself fix what we have been altering. But several things have shown us how wrong we are, and the climate changes are one of them.



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