Posts tagged “UN”

Global Warming is Going to Get Us

The Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, is doing his best to get countries to work together to deal with climate change, warning us that “We have four months to secure the future of our planet.” You may think that’s alarmist, and that’s what the oil companies funding “controversy” are banking on.  Yes, figuring […]

Another one bites the dust…

This week’s extinct plant was a relative of coffee.  Coffea lemblinii sounds like it was lovely plant.  According to wikipedia, it was a small, very branched shrub with white flowers growing in the forest understory.  I wonder if its fruits were as tasty as those of its more familiar cousin C. arabica? You’d think that […]