You can literally wear bamboo, play bamboo, ride bamboo, eat bamboo, and live in a house made of bamboo. Here are some of the more unusual uses for this wonderful material.

About the beauty and appeal of tropical flowers.

One of the biggest mistakes day hikers make is assuming they don\'t need to plan for wilderness survival.

According to an article in World Oil Magazine entitled, Three super-giant fields discovered offshore Brazil, by Arthur Berman; three new offshore oil fields have been discovered in Brazil\'s Santos Basin. How does this new oil discovery compare with the largest oil field in the world, Ghawar in Saudi Arabia?

If you\'ve not done so already, it\'s time to clean out and refill your hummingbird feeders, because the Ruby-throated hummingbird - the king of nature\'s frequent flyers - is on its way back to the eastern U.S. Reportedly, they are about a week ahead of last year.

Rainforests are the dynamic engine of the Earth\'s biosphere; they fix carbon from the atmosphere, and the aspiration of plants in the rain forests produce nearly 10% of the oxygen we need to live (over 70% of the oxygen is generated by algae and plankton on the world\'s oceans).

Bird watching hobbyists across the globe are enjoying the wealth of information that is now available to them on the internet.

If you are not a person who enjoys shopping, then trying to find a pair of bird watching binoculars may be tiresome.

Many folk find that backyard bird watching is a great way to get introduced to the activity.

Anyone who is a bird watcher belongs to a passionate group of people.