Physical Punishment On Children For Misbehavior Could Be Counter Productive

Researchers from the University of Manitoba and of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, wrote in the Canadian Medical Association Journal said, ‘Virtually without exception, these studies found that physical punishment like smacking, spank was associated with higher levels of aggression against parents, siblings, peers and spouses.’

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A Safe, Permanent Solution In Managing Hazardous Nuclear Waste Materials Is Urgently Needed

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, the panel appointed to find alternatives to Nevada’s nuclear waste storage, declared recently that the United States would have to develop a ‘consent based approach’ in choosing site dealing with nuclear waste based on what Finland, France, Spain and Sweden had accomplished, and where U.S. Congress obviously had failed to make the decision.

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A Film Shows An Extensive Plastic Pollution Over The World’s Major Oceans

The film aims to combine the art of nature documentary with a campaigning quest that has been followed up by Hong Kong-based Australian film director Craig Leeson over the past year regarding the menace of plastic from Sardinia to Canada to the Indian Ocean.

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