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Environmentalists and Canada’s timber industry had put an end to their long-running battle over a region of Pacific Coast wilderness. They often referred the wilderness to as the Great Bear Rainforest.

The deal governs a region of about 2 million…

An Indonesian mountain jungle has been hiding a lost world in it. But, it eventually could not go successful skirting it against the impertinent minds of the researchers. It’s the lost world in a literal sense. It is a home to dozens of exotic new…

They absorb and transfer more carbon from the Earth’s surface than was previously understood. New research on Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) reveals this behavior. Antarctic krill is a shrimp-like animal at the heart of the Southern Ocean food…

You can run your car with these endless fields of corn in the Midwest. It can be distilled into endless gallons of ethanol, a clean-burning, high-octane fuel to meet reducing global warming. And if this could be done successfully, it could end any…

It’s a common fear that unpleasant or dangerous side effects are occurred from worms. But, did you ever think of curing your asthma by infecting your own body by a worm?! You may not have dreamt of it, am sure. But, a team of British scientists is…

While on the one hand, climate change is threatening our long-term future on the planet, on the other, scientists are claiming it to have helped bring us into being in the first place!

Spurring our ancestors to stand tall on two legs, grow large…

To get the Florida black bear added to the federal list of endangered or threatened species, conservation groups and an animal welfare group are suing. About 3,000 live in the state and southern Alabama and Georgia, and Florida classifies the bear as…

Death of ten Irrawaddy dolphins, including eight calves found in Cambodia’s Mekong River, catapults one of this rarest cetaceans nearer extinction. The environmental group WWF International informed.

This death led to a 10 percent drop in the number…

Do you own a fast-food restaurant in Oakland, California? And do you serve take-out food or beverages? Then be aware. The Oakland City Council is proposing a tax on your restaurant – as the Oakland residents are sick and tired of tripping over burger…

Billed as environmentally friendly, alternative fuel is accessed by millions of drivers in 38 states outside New England. It generally costs pennies to 40 cents per gallon less than gasoline.

But scientists and green-policy advocates haven’t come to…