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While on one hand, 95 per cent of UK households buy bananas every week, on the other, the fruit may move down the road to extinction soon! Biologists fear that the Cavendish banana, sold widely in Britaish shops may disapper completely.

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You can address this step as another important move towards establishing a post-Kyoto framework. To help cut greenhouse gases, Canada is likely to follow the six-nation Asian-based climate pact to become the next country to join it.

After meeting…

A leading conservationist group informs that fish stocks, living in international waters are being devastated to the point of extinction! According to a WWF report, illegal fishing and deep water bottom trawling are responsible for this devastation….

Conservatonists in India are concerned about the disappearing tiger population here. To effectively arrest this diminishing statistics, China has to co-operate critically and largely – as it has a huge and lucrative market for big cat skins and body…

If one has witnessed the snow packed peaks of Alaska in 2000, be sure you save that image. Compared to its picture then, the peaks will have only 64 percent of the then snow by 2100, a new model predicts.

It is from 1977 to 2100, the new global…

Reluctant to leave their homes in the beginning, even after high red alert, the Indonesian villagers who were moved from the slopes of the dire Mount Merapi volcano, are now back in their homes on Thursday. Even after they have been warned that a major.

The coqui frogs are said to be threatening the fragile ecosystem of Hawaii, along with disrupting the island residents’ sleep. To fight these invasive species, the state has allocated $4.9 million. In this battle against the amphibians, 58 additional…

Rising sea level and increased storm intensity are endangering many large cities, hence rising fears once thought to be a remote and distant threat. As much as 10 percent of the world’s population is vulnerable, the Earth Institute at Columbia…

The planet’s core has revealed a huge slab of folded Earth! It can once be a part of the ocean floor, scientists contemplate. With this discovery, a theory on the Earth’s crust got strengthened. It is been said that the earth’s crust is constantly…

A 22-year record of satellite observations reveals that tundra areas show greening trends in a consistent and predominant way. While on the other hand, forested areas are showing a browning trend. The study centered on the northern circumpolar high…