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I had a wonderful experience being a Wikipedian. I had the opportunity of editing an existing Wikipedia page by adding more information. This included doing further research on different topics and subtopics and then adding more information to the subtopics to make them more comprehensive. This experience also gave me the opportunity of being aContinue reading “My Experience of Becoming a 21st Century Wikipedian”

Invasive species are a major threat to biological diversity all over the world. Pest plants usually pose a huge problem and especially because they usually go undetected for a very long time and hence ends up causing huge ecological damage. The worst invasive pests are normally due to intercontinental introductions and especially due to theContinue reading “Invasive plants”

 In 1917, Arthur Tansley published a paper entitled “On competition between Galium saxatile L. (G. hercynicum Weig.) and Galium Sylvestre Poll. (G. asperum Schreb.) on different types of soil” in the Journal of Plant Ecology. In his paper, he argued that Galium Sylvestre germinates on calcareous sandy soil and acid peat while Galium saxatile growsContinue reading “Tansley’s 1917 – What’s Missing & Why”

The differences between primary, secondary and tertiary sources originate from the phenomenon of the created information or the original event. Primary sources are those that are created very close to the original phenomenon or event like a photograph of an event. It may be created at the time of the occurrence of an event suchContinue reading “Peer-Reviewed, Secondary, Tertiary Literature… Whats the difference?”

Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, and died on April 19, 1882. He was an English geologist, naturalist and a biologist and he is highly known for his science of evolution through natural selection. Charles Darwin was the second born of six siblings, and he was a child of privilege who highly adoredContinue reading “Tales Of A White Man – Charles Darwin”

The United Nations Frameworks on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was started mid-1992 in Rio de Janeiro as an international environmental treaty which then entered into full force in 1994. Essentially, the main goal of this Convention is, “The stabilization of the concentrations of greenhouse gas to a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic or interference ofContinue reading “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”