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 | Environment This section contains articles about science, nature, medicine, anthropology, health and the human spirit. | |
| | | | | |  World Refugee Day by The Ovi Team
The United Nations' (UN) World Refugee Day is observed on June 20 each year. This event honours the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homeland under threat of persecution, conflict and violence. | | | |  World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought by The Ovi Team
The United Nations' World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is annually observed on June 17 to highlight the urgent need to curb the desertification process. It also aims to strengthen the visibility of the drylands issue on the international env | | | |  World Citizens Call for Renewed Efforts to Resolve Asian Maritime Delimitations Dispute by Rene Wadlow
8 June has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of the Oceans to highlight the important role that the United Nations has played in creating the Law of the Sea and the World Court in facilitating adjudication of | |
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| | |  Christmas Island tests by The Ovi Team
May 15th 1957; Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean. | | | |  Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster by The Ovi Team
26th April 1986; an explosion and fire at the No. 4 reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine resulted in a nuclear meltdown sending radioactivity into the atmosphere. The Radiation fallout spread throughout Europe the Chernobyl disaster is cons | | | |  Mother Earth Day by The Ovi Team
Earth day today and aside of some information a few picture because one picture equal a thousands words here some thousands words on what we have done to the earth. | | | |  The Odour Classification of Essential Oils by Murray Hunter
Odour is the primary feature of an essential oil when utilized as part of a product displaying a scent. Therefore odours require a standard system of classification, where those involved in the production, trade and eventual downstream product have a comm | | | |  Earth Day 2013 by The Ovi Team
April 4th; On 8 December 2005, the General Assembly declared that 4 April of each year shall be observed as the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. | | | |  Sun-Earth Day by The Ovi Team
March 18th; NASA's Sun Earth Days team is joining forces with NASA EDGE to explore the violent nature of our Sun at the peak of solar activity and share discoveries from NASA's heliophysics and planetary missions during this exciting period. | | | |  Insulin, first use by The Ovi Team
23rd January, 1922: The first injection of Insulin (called isletin originally) on Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old diabetic who lay dying at the Toronto General Hospital on 11th January 1922 caused a severe allergic reaction. | | | | next | | |
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