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Over the years, our planet Earth has been subjected to severe depletion of natural resources including, among others, fossil fuels and deforestation coupled with a sharp increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causing extensive climate change.No doubt people are the primary cause of climate change. Temperatures are rising, glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, forests are dying and animal species are being driven out of their natural habitats.A report published by the National Oceani …

Nowhere in the UK is more than 70 miles from the coast, and waters team with incredible marine life. This latest seashore marine life stamp issue celebrates the beautiful and surprising animals of our coastal seas and shores, with the UK waters and British Isles providing unique habitats for a multitude  of species. The 10 stamps celebrating the UK coastline, including wildlife from all over the UK are accompanied by a 4 stamp miniature sheet focusing on the UK’s marine food web. …

Bom in Poland in 1921, Czeslaw Slania was passionate about drawing from childhood. He studied engraving at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków, and developed his talent in intaglio. He threw himself wholeheartedly into this painstaking discipline, which is beloved of philatelists because, from an aesthetic point of view, it produces a much better effect than can be achieved by offset printing. Slania began his philatelic career in his country of origin in 1951. In 1960, by which time he had been l …

Recently, Croatia, the United Nations, and Austria have issued stamps featuring crypto currency.  Many collectors will be vying to obtain first issues of this new and evolving philatelic phenomenon. The web shop (crypto.posta.hr/stamp/v2) where Croatian Post enables the purchase of crypto stamps is conceived as an interactive mosaic that provides an opportunity to pay for a stamp with cryptocurrencies. In order to faithfully translate collectibles into the digital world, cryptographers …

Celebrate The Century Series On February 3, 1998, the USPS issued the first sheet in the Celebrate the Century Series.As America approached the end of the century, the USPS sought a way to honor the wide variety of events that had taken place. This led them to the massive 150-stamp Celebrate the Century Series.The USPS issued the first Celebrate The Century souvenir sheet on February 3, 1998, in Washington, DC. It began one of the largest stamp series in US history. Highlighting the important ev …