A recent archaeological dig in Mesopotamia made it apparent that pesticide use started as early as 4500 BD. Farmers in Sumer were dusting their crops with Sulfur to protect them from various pests. And since then, we have been using various forms of pesticides to better protect our crops and to prevent our homes from …
Today, most of the world’s economies are inextricably interlinked with each other, what affects one soon starts a cascading effect on all the world’s economies. In a sense, that’s good as interlinked economies can help promote trade and even result in free trade agreements without the requisite trade tariffs being levied on select products and …
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The earth, truth be told is more fragile today than it had ever been during the course of its long history, spanning 4.5 Billion years. It is the largest biosphere and is currently home to various flora and fauna; the sheer diversity of life on earth is just staggering and made more unique by the …
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It is a fact that our earth is quickly losing its green cover; forests provide us with valuable resources, help to recycle carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, provide natural habitat, and form the backbone of most significant ecosystems. Given the fact that the world is currently facing global warming, it seems evident that governments …
Brain drain is a real concept and one that had been characterized in the last several decades by the immigration of talented people out of developing nations to that of the developed world and in most cases, the US. The concept seems to be a tad far-reaching in the sense it presupposes that the recipient …
During the course of its 4.5 billion years lifespan, the earth had been subjected to various natural disasters from having a planetoid impact earth just a few hundred thousand years after the earth formed, resulting in the creation of the moon, to the Volcanoes erupting in Hawaii which is ongoing at the moment. Most, if …
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Climate change is caused by global warming which in turn is precipitated by the build-up of certain greenhouse gases emitted by human activity. The question that most of us ponder about is this one, “climate had undergone a drastic change in the course of earth’s history so why should this time be any different”. Such …
Agriculture is what our society was built on and it is also the mainstay of several economies around the world. Man first started farming around 12000 years ago, approximately around 10,000 BC when the first city-states took shape. Since then, agriculture and more specifically agricultural technology have evolved to become what it is today, a …
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In today’s world, there are several technological tools that you utilize in your day to day operations and most of these do lend a transformative effect, enabling you to grow your business further. The technology that you use can impact your business as a whole, it can help you streamline business operations, reach out to …
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Medical technology has indeed come a long way since doctors use leeches to bleed a patient in order to effect a cure. With medical firms allocating large funds for research into new areas of research in their quest for a miracle drug, it is more likely that we would see vaccines and effective medications being …
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