Articles
Some interesting information about cancer, greenhouse effect, poverty and famine in the world today.
Cancer: Know Your Facts
The findings estimate that for 2007 there was a total of 12 million new cancer cases worldwide. Out of these 12 million cases, 7.6 million resulted with the patients losing their lives. This figure amounts to an astonishing 20 000 deaths per day. Learn more...
Starving to Death
Could you imagine your own child, niece, sister, or close friend starving to death? Poverty is the ultimate punishment hungry kids are paying for a crime they did not commit. Do not assume for a second, that giving is someone else's responsibility. Bend the way your mind works and thinks about hunger and poverty…
There's Enough Food But The World is Still Hungry
There is enough food in the world to feed every human being on earth. Sadly, malnutrition and hunger still afflict one out of every seven people in the world today. Or, from a slightly different statistical perspective, the current world population is 4,712,200,000. The number of malnourished is 797,900,000. Therefore 17% of the world population is currently malnourished or starving…
The Weather's Changing Drastically!
'Climate change' is a phrase which is often use in association with global warming, and it has potentially catastrophic consequences for the world in which we live. 'Climate change' also covers global cooling, which can also occur as a result of human activity and greenhouse gases, and reflects a substantial change in the world's climate, which could change our habitat beyond recognition…
Killing Antartica
In year 2000, the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica increased to 29 million cubic kilometres, which is four times the size of Australia. This increases the risk of exposure to cancer-producing ultraviolet light for the population of the southern hemisphere as never before. Antarctica as such is also threatened, because its very sensitive ecosystem may be quickly destroyed by this situation…
