Cocaine use doesn’t just affect addicts or lead to crime–It also leads to the demise of RAINFORESTS. Scientists are reporting new evidence that cultivating coca bushes, the source of cocaine, is speeding up destruction of rainforests in Colombia and threatening the region’s "hotspots" of plant and animal diversity. In fact, the tropical rainforests in Brazil are now on FIRE!
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And no, it’s not good news: For the first time in history, the next generation will not live longer, or even as long, as their parents (and they won’t do as well in school, either). Diseases such as Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, heart conditions and joint deterioration–things that were once considered ‘adult’ diseases–are regularly being diagnosed in children, due to the prevalence of obesity. And researchers suspect that a lot of the obesity in kids has to do with early traumas.
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Here on unknowncountry.com, we keep you up-to-date on the moon and the REAL reasons so many governments want to return there. President Obama has recently said that he plans to leave space travel up to the newly-formed private companies for the time being, due to the recession.read more
Google Earth may soon replace shovels as the main tool that archeologists use to dig into the past (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show): Almost two thousand potential archeological sites in Saudi Arabia have been discovered thanks to satellite images from there.
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