It is happening for the last 30 years. The northern U.S. lakes have been losing annual ice cover earlier each year. A University of Wisconsin study reportedly suggests this. From 1971 to 2002, researchers re-examined ice trends for 56 lakes across…
Mount St. Helens is erupting now! The current eruption of Mount St. Helens is now in its 15th month. But, how is it so? As volcanic eruptions go, it’s unusually quiet. And it shows no signs of turning violent! There are no explosions; no ash is thrown..
Dwarfing the diversity of all other animals combined, they have evolved into an estimated five million living species. Insects always win over all the known species of plants, fungi and protozoans including whales and elephants. Two entomologists have..
A signatory of the Kyoto Protocols, the European Union was given a margin for meeting the greenhouse gas target. But, it is likely to miss it by a wide margin, the European Environment Agency says. According to a BBC report, the 15 longest-standing…
Buildings are popping out now and then, here in there every day. And the amount of debris it produces each day is quite irritating. Neither the builders, nr the owners know much about what to do with the huge wanton waste produced out of erecting a sky.
The move, supported by and in the interest of farmers, ecologists and consumer groups will force the government to impose a blanket ban on the cultivation of GMO crops and the import of animals whose genes have been modified in the laboratory….
What would life be like if snow stops falling on the freezing tundra of the Arctic Circle? Life is harsh there now, true. But, if snow stops falling there life would be harsher. In recent years, snows have failed to fall as normal across large parts of.
When did the conditions for life arise? The issue always kicked up controversy and died out unsettled. To add to the existing controversy, a new research suggests that the continents formed much earlier than it was previously thought. Astronauts in…
How were the lives of the ancient woolly mammoths? And what made them go extinct? To get a reply to these, Rountrey and his advisor, Daniel Fisher, are analyzing the chemical signatures in a woolly mammoth’s tusk that died millennia ago and was nursed..
It is a situation which is unfair to everyone. It leads to splits in the community, antagonism between neighbors, intimidation and bullying. This is no riot or a problems arising out of personal hankerings! The situation is a cumulative effect of…