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With the southern hemisphere experiencing the heat of the season, Australia’s ongoing hot summer is reportedly inflicting great harm to the largest natural feature on Earth — Great Barrier Reef. University of Queensland scientists claim to be…

Hope the United Nations meeting in Germany this week proves fruitful as it is setting to pave a big way. The meeting will conclude on hundreds of projects to curb greenhouse gas emissions in Russia and Eastern Europe, industry executives said on Tuesday..

It is discovered just off the Southern California coast. But whether the astonishing finding – an undersea deposit of frozen methane — can be harnessed as a potential energy source is unknown. There has been a growing interest in tapping methane…

It may not happen that soon – But, may be after passing down the information through a few generations, one will — living in Washington, D.C – ultimately find him about where San Francisco is now! Dragged by the same lunar forces that produce tides,…

Hats off to the geographically diverse and enriched island — New Zealand. It ranks first in the world in environmental performance, according to the Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). The Index is produced by a team of environmental…

The Earth is entering a “fever” phase! That is what a leading scientist claims as he writes that climate change will kill billions of people this century. In the “Gaia Theory”, the Earth is a self-regulating organism, James Lovelock propounded…

To add to the prolonged healing of the ozone hole, frigid temperatures in Europe and very cold air in the stratosphere have created a mini hole in its layer above the Netherlands. Unlike the large hole over Antarctica this hole will last a few days…

Here is a new, portable atmospheric laboratory equipped with sophisticated instruments and data systems. All credits goes to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program. To gain a better understanding of the…

Wow! That’s great, though this may encourage the polluters to have enough reasons to keep polluting have uncovered A gene that could help to develop new varieties of crop that will be able to cope with the changing world climate has been uncovered by.