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The Indonesian earthquake that rocked the southern coast of central Java island early Saturday, has by now killed more than 2,700 people, injuring thousands more. More and more injured people are being brought to the city’s main hospital. Buses and…

Compared to other parts of the world, the atmosphere in the subtropical areas is warming faster. The effect is the maximum around regions 30 degrees north and south latitude. It is not just this! After scrutinizing more than 25 years of satellite data,.

Wish technology could help predict, rather forecast tsunamis, hurricanes and catastrophic flash floods! So, many countries and lands wuld not have left devastated to this extent, especially million of people’s life would have been saved.

True, the…

Global warming seems to be spreading its tentacles far wide into the remote Arctic village of Puvirnituq, in Northern Quebec. For the past six years, the habitants there have been experiencing Spring arriving in the area earlier and earlier. Puvirnituq.

Kelp forest ecosystems – they skirt the West Coast, stretching from Alaska to the Baja Peninsula of Mexico. Kelp are giant algae – they reach up to 120 feet in height. More importantly, they support diverse ecosytems The whole stretch is facing a…

In 2004 and 2005, a submarine volcano, 550 meters below the ocean’s surface threw out plumes of sulfur-rich fluid and pulses of volcanic ash. The volcano is located near the Mariana Islands, northwest of Guam.

Findings from the first observations of..

Vultures are one-step up the food chain, and hence considered a vital habitat in the ecosystem. But, the Indian vultures are dying. An anti-inflammatory drug used in cattle, which is responsible for the vultures’ death. The drug is poisoning them….

The use of nuclear power need to be increased, to reduce greenhouse gases from enhancing global warming. This is an idea promoted by President Bush.

Bush said at the Limerick Generating Station nuclear plant, For the sake of economic security and…

Lake Qinghai, the holy river to ethnic Tibetans, is distinctly shrinking. Declining rainfall and desertification are two major factors responsible for the shrinking phenomenon, though some also blame global warming for it. Overgrazing is another…

Desert storms in Africa kick up giant clouds of dust. And scientists fear that these clouds can carry infectious organisms to other continents along with them.

You must be thinking, how it is possible for the bacteria to survive three miles above the..