My take and hope — from an age of degradation to a dawn of hope

On the last day of December 2016, I was in Portland, Oregon, USA. It was a cold winter month that year with the snowfall much heavier than normal, so I heard from the locals. The gloomy and cold weather did not help to uplift the spirit but I was there for a good and important […]

World’s hottest peppers grow under snow

NISKA BANJA (Serbia): December snow flurries in Serbia haven’t stopped Aleksandar Tanic from cultivating his scorching-hot crop: the crinkly chili peppers that are considered the spiciest on the planet. At the base of a mountain in southern Serbia, Tanic plucks a handful of red, yellow and orange peppers from rows of leafy vines inside a […]