A bacterial infection has killed more than 1,000 mallard ducks this December alone! The officials say that the cause of it might not be avian flu! The birds were found dead along a single creek in southern Idaho.
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China plans to develop an alternative energy source based on coal to decrease the country’s dependence on oil imports, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) informed. For developing these, the country will be investing over one trillion…
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Once again, nature’s amazing and surprising treasure is found hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean. Creeping along the Monterey Bay’s bottom, sand dunes lurk there in the cold blackness, stretching up to 15 feet high and 200 feet long!…
Sand dunes spotted 100s of feet below ocean surface! Read More »
Let’s find out what most amazing creatures our researchers have discovered round this year – 2006! Here are six of the most surprising and peculiar creatures spotted by them deep under the darkness of the sea and documented on National Geographic…
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Do you know, the Greenland beneath the ‘more-than-a-mile-of’ ice veil can be defined with heavily scoured mountains and valleys? Some impertinent scientists have constructed, though crude, but useful 3-D images of Greenland’s this hidden land!
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The water’s property of forming ice creates problems particularly in cryo-preservations – as the crystal that form damages cells and tissues. Anatoli Bogdan at the University of Helsinki, Finland has discovered a new property of water that can…
Ozone in the cirrus clouds is destroyed faster than previously thought! Read More »
For converting cellulose into ethanol, various resources are available in the market. But, how can a stover be supplied from the field to the biorefinery? Researchers have designed a single-pass system, capable of harvesting both corn kernels and…
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A 175-meter high wheel will be erected in the German capital soon to attract millions of visitors from 2008. The Berlin wheel would be higher than the London Eye — which claims to be the world’s tallest observation wheel at 135 meters. The 120…
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Partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of greenhouse gases, the Arctic Ocean could be mostly open water in summer by 2040 – several decades earlier than previously expected, as concluded by a study done by the National Center for…
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To tackle climate change, more attention is needed to be given to human rights, according to former Irish President Mary Robinson. So, is the phenomenon now an issue of global injustice? The former President will be arguing this in a lecture at…
Is climate change an issue of global injustice threatening human rights? Read More »