The Amazon could lose up to half its current area by 2050! And with this, nearly 100 native species will be deprived of more than half of their habitats and about 772,300 square miles of forest will be lost. A new report released predicts that six major..
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Do you know, Los Angeles and New York breathe the dirtiest air in the United States?! This is what the Environmental Protection Agency is suggesting.
The risk of developing cancer from air toxins is estimated to be 68 resident per million in New York…
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We can now dare to dream a complete irradiation of dengue fever – as researchers have successfully created a genetically engineered mosquito that shows a high level of resistance against this most prevalent type of dengue fever virus. It is a powerful…
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The already struggling poorest countries of the world are being threatened of their developments by droughts, floods, changing rain patterns and rising sea levels. Experts and aid workers at an international water forum said this on Monday.
Africa and..
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Including a tritium-contaminated leak at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will undertake a five-month investigation into several recent accidental releases of radioactive water, the Commission announced Monday….
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Greenpeace activists swam the Uruguay River on Monday calling for Uruguay to halt construction of two large pulp mills. They swam across with banners reading “Move out now!”
A Greenpeace ship bobbing accompanied more than a dozen protesters who…
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On World Water Day 2006, City Hippy has provided us with 10 things you can do to conserve water:
1. Get involved with a water NGO like Water Partners or WaterAid.
2. Put a brick in your toilet cistern if you can and save upto a third with each…
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Amazon seems to break the rule of seasons. While in the dry season leaves fall off the trees and the green lush vanishes across the world, the Amazon rainforest puts on its biggest growth spurt. And this finding left the researchers surprised and…
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Sub-seabed storage of carbon dioxide produced by fossil-fuelled power
stations can now be secured! It is a natural physical process that has
been identified and it could play a key role in helping check global
warming or climate change.
It is found…
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It is happening indiscriminately across the planet. Abundance and variety is falling continuously. A major new report says that virtually all indicators of the likely future for the diversity of life on Earth are heading in the wrong direction.
This..
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