Archive for April 2008

Water woesA woman filling jugs with water at a water distribution point in the Nuguru Go Down Slum in Kampala. The United Nations declared 2008 the international Year of Sanitation, and it made use of international Water Day on March 21 to highlight the issue. “In teh world today, there are 15 million deaths caused…

Clogged canals Scavengers collecting polythene and other recyclable items from a polluted canal in downtown Jakarta. Jakarta’s water supply has suffered from regular cuts in recent years as pollution enters its main source of water through canals where communities live alongside, as well as from rivers that cross it on their way to the Java…

Males are largely blue, Females appear grey CAPTIVE-breeding has raised the numbers of a rare butterfly species. Trouble is, there are not many places to release them. Last year, an estimated 220 of the Palos Verdes blues butterflies existed in the wild in California, so few that experts feared they could be wiped out by…