Agricultural activity now dominates more than a third of the Earth’s landscape. Global populations are swelling, and thus farmers are cultivating more and more land in a desperate bid to keep pace with the ever-intensifying needs of humans. Agricultural..
How Can We Expand Farming While Preserving the Environment? Read More »
True, the rapture zones of recent major earthquakes are immune to similar-sized earthquakes. And that too, for hundreds of years. But, scientists fear that they could be vulnerable to even bigger destructive temblors sooner than scientists suspect….
Large Earthquakes in Himalaya May Occur Earlier than Thought Read More »
Here is a piece of good news for the conservationists and environmentalists. They have been concerned with the Amazon rain forest, as it lost 7,300 square miles, which is an area more than half the size of Maryland. But, its time for you to relax, as…
Amazon Destruction Has Dropped by 31 Percent: Brazil Government Read More »
Do you know Oregon is sitting over massive fault lines, where another devastating earthquake or tsunami could strike at any time? A startling new scientific discipline that combines Earth science studies and analysis of ancient legends claims this. And.
Cataclysms May Devastate Oregon Any Moment: Mythology Warns Read More »
It was said previously that about 180 billion-years ago a dramatic rise in the earth’s temperature led to the extinction of various species. To, add to this extinction phenomenon, scientists claim another factor to be responsible. Poisonous volcanic…
Poisonous Volcanic Gas ‘Caused’ Mass Extinction and Dinosaur Birth Read More »
Scientists are hoping the best for saving the world from global warming. The wonderful technology, ‘carbon capture and storage’, still in its infancy, involves taking carbon dioxide before it is released at power stations and burying it in disused oil..
Burying Greenhouse Gases Will Help Britain Meet Kyoto Obligations Easily Read More »
It all happened this week. A glowing stream of lava shot out from the newly exposed cliff-side 45 feet above the water is let loose. This followed the collapse of about 44 acres of coastline into the ocean. The plume was 6 feet in diameter. It sent up..
Forty-Four Acres of Coastline Collapse in Hawaii Read More »
It is previously ‘proven’ that bees cannot fly. So, to learn the forces actually at work during honeybee flight, Michael Dickinson, an insect flight expert and colleagues at Caltech in Pasadena, California, US decided to investigate it. As a result,…
Q#5: How does a Bee with Heavy Body and Short Wing Fly? Read More »
The still mystifying Dead Sea is slowly evaporating and hence shrinking! And it may become the dry sea in another three decades. Environmentalists are highly concerned and are working to save it. It is said to be falling by a meter in depth every year..
Dying Seas: Dead Sea Is Evaporating and Shrinking to Death Read More »