People studying the situation in Myanmar are claiming that an inadequate response of the government of Myanmar (formerly Burma) to scientists' warnings about the cyclone, coupled with large-scale destruction of protective mangroves along its coasts, aggravated the devastation wreaked by tropical Cyclone Nargis...
Although the North Coast was relatively unaffected by the recent tropical storms, countrywide they have caused more than RD$1.1 billion in damages to the infrastructure and agriculture of the Dominican Republic...
In Bulgaria, a three year old girl was caught by police after she crashed her dad’s car into a river. Also in the car were here 4 and 6 year old cousins...
The Government in Estonia has pushed through a new ‘green’ tax, a flatulence tax on farmers to compensate the country for the methane gas produced by cows...
As fuel prices continue to rise, the Adscene thought it would be interesting to compare the prices here in the Dominican Republic with the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and Italy...
