After rejecting the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol, Washington and Australia want to limit warming by alternate methods – technology. To promote technology like “clean coal” or ways to bury heat-trapping gases, the two rich nations will team up with China,…
The wooden supports that have propped up the city for more than a century are gradually getting exposed, as groundwater levels have been dropping for years in some Boston neighborhoods. It is posing expensive problems for property owners, as the…
Is indiscriminate logging responsible for this ruthless cataclysm? This query has kicked up a debate on the reasons behind landslides and flash floods in Indonesia that killed as many as 240 people. ‘Logging in central Java worsened the situation and…
It happened four years ago. Parts of India witnessed in surprise, the scarlet showers containing the red specks. This is where the mystery begun. And it is only recently, scientists are thinking to have decoded the peculiar phenomenon. A paper to…
We all know that diseases, hurricanes, warming oceans are dramatically destroying the coral reefs. But, there is nothing to get disappointed. Scientists’ new discovery have provide with a ray of hope for the concerns for the declining marine reserves…
Boaters can’t even imagine their negligence and inexperience can lead to damaging crucial habitat important to fishing industries. And the Florida boaters are exactly doing this to the fragile seagrass in the shallow Florida Bay, a conservation…
The volcano that fell silent in 1986 is oozing lava every three seconds! And it is happening for more than a year now! This is no other than the active notorious Mount St. Helens. It is oozing lava into its crater at the rate of roughly a large dump..
With the year wrapping in, Britain has experienced the coldest December in a decade. The temperature was about 10 F with heavy snow. The blast of cold air and snow stranded motorists canceled trains and caused numerous accidents.
There were severe…
26 December 2004 — It is the dreadful day when the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami swept across coastlines sweeping along with it, more than 200 000 lives. Since then the scientists have been hunting for the culprit behind the catastrophe. By inspecting…
This long-standing conundrum has been decoded using genetic evidence from more than 20 species of locusts. Thanks to the scientists from the Universities of Toronto, Arizona, Maryland, Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Capable..