Lokomotiva Blog

There are two kinds of elephant: African elephants, which live in parts of Africa south of the Sahara; and Asian elephants, which live in the forests of India, Sri Lanka and south East Asia. They have a lot in common, including their huge trunks and wrinkly gray skin that can be an inch thick. But [...]

Don’t do a whole series of exercise that keep the arms at or above shoulder height. The muscle supporting the shoulder will get fatigued or start to burn, possibility damaging your shoulder joint. Or you may get a stiff neck the next day since the muscles you abused pull on the neck. And avoid doing [...]

Growing food crops is hard work, as any farmer will tell you. To grow corn or pumpkins or any other crop, first you must plow and cultivate the soil, breaking it up and digging out the weeds. Then you plant your seeds. And then, as soon as you turn your back, hungry birds show up [...]

Mush of Alaska is covered with permafrost, a layer of permanently frozen soil that lies just below the surface. Warmer temperatures are now causing the permafrost to melt in some places. As it melts, the ground softens and water wells up to the surface. Trees growing in the top soil layer tip sideways and their [...]

Forests are a renewable resources. Unlike coal, iron ore, oil and other resourses that will someday be depaleted, trees can be grown many times on the same area from which they were harvested. We use products made from wood every day –furniture, paper, pencils, floors, doors. Hundreds of additional forest products have been developed using [...]