Over the past year, this feature has been showcasing some of the amazing plants and animals of the Iwokrama Rain Forest; now here are some details about the importance and role of tropical forests in general and their functions.
Flame violet (Episcia) originates from Central and South America. It is closely related to a number of house plants such as African violet and Gloxinia.
It could be the country boy in me propelling it, but it takes me quite a while to latch onto new trends.
Continued The most important consideration relating to breeding is when to breed.
As the worst US drought in fifty years drives up the price of staples such as corn, soybean and wheat, and changing weather patterns affect cereal production in Russia, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the world is about to experience another surge in food prices.
While Ecuador’s populist President Rafael Correa steps up his international offensive to grant political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, an exiled Ecuadoran journalist seeking political asylum has some very interesting insights into what’s behind the Ecuadorian leader’s latest quest for international attention.
Hi Everyone, There are several versions of rice cooked with turmeric and or curry powder that are Curry Rice.
Photos by Marcelle Thomas and Shabna Ullah Long before you reach Woodley Park you catch the aroma of the village.
“We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world.
As with the first, the second installment of this column last week attracted a full length response from the Prime Minister Samuel Hinds which as far as I could understand pleaded with me “to help soothe anxiety about removing a historical subsidy.”
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was already polling at historically low numbers among Hispanic voters before his decision to name Wisconsin Rep Paul Ryan as his running mate.
Introduction Starting with my column on April 1 this year, this is the twenty-first and concluding one in a series, which may be broadly described as an appraisal of the political economy of the National Budget, 2012.
Can the 2008 EU Cariforum Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) still be made to work to the region’s advantage, or is its economic promise fading?
These columns usually come from my own observations, or from my recall of an experience, but readers will occasionally prod me into subjects of their own interest or even suggest a slant that hadn’t occurred to me.
The last of the well-known snake families found in Guyana is the Vipers (Viperidae).
Ornamental peppers (Capsicum annuum) are small bushy plants with bright glossy peppers.
Continued Last week we dealt with the whole issue of the estrus cycle in dogs.
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Dance theatre in the Caribbean has developed in a number of interesting and increasingly important directions.
Hi Everyone, My world of tea drinking took an exotic twist back in 2007 when friends from the Indian sub-continent introduced me to tea masala (masala chai).
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