Would you be happier living in a greener area?
A UK study says you would. New research from the University of Exeter Medical School and the European Centre for Environment & Human Health in England has found that "people living in urban areas with more green space tend to report greater well-being than city dwellers that don't have parks, gardens, or other green space nearby." The research, led by Dr. Mathew White, was published in the journal Psychological Science.
One of the most brilliantly beautiful tropical birds is definitely the Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao). Its loud, raucous squawks carry for miles, so usually you hear them before you see them. When you do sight a Scarlet Macaw in the wild, they are breathtaking – fire engine red bodies with sunshine yellow and royal blue wing feathers tinged with a bit of green, and a distinct stark white patch around both eyes.
An endangered species, Scarlet Macaws live in tropical forests from Mexico to South America
Tropical forests cover 15% of the globe's surface and capture 25% of the carbon present in the atmosphere. These healthy forests play a critical role in curbing climate change. They "breathe" CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in trees and soil; in fact, roughly half of the world's terrestrial carbon is stored in forests, according to the international organization Conservation International.
Costa Rica is the first, and so far the only, tropical country in the world that has reversed a decades
