KATHMANDU, April 19 -- It's another Earth Day next week, and we are lucky we still have a Planet to observe it in with various activities like cutting back on fossil fuels by diluting our diesel with water.
Scientists recently announced in the journal Nature that trees do not only give off oxygen, but also methane, which is a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide.
Being alert to the latest scientific discoveries, GONE has therefore launched a tree-felling campaign on a war-footing. The grabberment announced a target of mowing down forests the size of an average district in the forthcoming fiscal year. Cutting down 2.5 million trees to build the new airport in Nijgad alone will reduce the amount of methane we pump into the atm...