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Ocean’s food supply can get dramatically affected by ozone depletion’s long-term impacts. This is suggested by a new research in Antarctica. Phytoplankton is a major food source of lower species, like krill. A Tasmanian scientist-group has measured…

After the tropical storm Bilis hit across China, the disastrous rainstorms and flooding by now, has increased the death toll to 88, according to state media. With at least 2.3 million people affected by rainstorms and floods, across the province…

Dry cleaners use a hazardous air pollutant — perchloroethylene, or perc in the cleaning procedure. Exposure to this pollutant increases the risk cancer and neurological damage. With this in view, the Environmental Protection Agency tightened public…

Do you know that some of the rare bowhead whales can outlive humans by generations?! Yes, also known as Greenland right whales, at least one bowhead male can live for up to 200 years. Scientists have revealed this by examining their eye…

In the first half of 2006, the United States experienced the highest ever recorded temperatures in the continent! The January temperatures across the month of June were 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average.

The burnt of the record…

Recently, a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales — working in the eastern state of Queensland – dug out a ferocious past of Australia! Three new fossil deposit-discoveries made recently by paleontologists revealed that cuddly…

The low member in the ocean food web — the jellyfish-like creatures called salps – can be blamed for contributing more to the fate of ocean’s greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, than previously thought.

May be about the size of a human thumb, these salps.