How important is carbon dioxide for fertilization? The reply to this is pretty astonishing. A new finding reveals that forest productivity may be significantly greater in an atmosphere enriched with carbon dioxide. Researchers at the Department of…
Thousands of salmon, tuna and other fish are migrating towards the Pacific Ocean highways. This mysterious migration may provide clues on how to rebuild dwindling stocks, scientists informed. All these have been possible with the electronic tags called.
Hippo teeth and meat are very lucrative for the poachers, and they kill the animals randomly and indiscriminately. As a result of this widespread poaching, Hippos in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which was once home.
If not of the pollution, people have grown conscious of their effects and after-effects. They have started worrying about more than just asthma and other respiratory problems. This is specially occurring in the Ohio River Valley along the Ohio-West…
Mayas civilization developed much earlier than previously accepted! The oldest known Mayan painting inside a ruined pyramid deep inside a Guatemalan jungle, is suggesting this new concept. Archaeologists, who dug up this painting, claim that the mural..
A magical antidote to poison, once sought by Regality, was till date only an object of fascination and mystery. The majestic spiral tusk grown by the small Arctic whale was known as the narwhal. But, science has shed light on the tusk’s unique…
It has overtaken the polar bears at the head of the toxic table. They are the killer whales – or ‘orcas’, as they are sometimes known. Among all Arctic mammals, orcas have ingested the highest concentration of hazardous man-made chemicals. Norwegian…
What is Ozone Hole?
The ozone hole is a thinning break in the ozone layer. A depletion in the ozone layers called an ‘ozone hole’ when the detected amount of depletion exceeds 50%. It was first discovered over the South Pole in the 1980s.
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It is doing this for a century. By now, it has evaporated whole lagoons and kindled forest fires, killed off fish and crops, stranded boats and the villagers who travel by them, brought disease and wreaked economic havoc. The demon is the drought that..
Over the last 25 years, the sand slowly takes control of the mouth of the Murray River, especially where the Murray meets the surf of the Southern Ocean and close the river mouth. It is Australia’s greatest waterway that’s declining. The undignified…