Be it Katrina, Rita or the Tsunami – all that marked the year with devastations by nature’s fury warns us that Earth Observation was vital both for damage assessment and for coordinating emergency activities. Satellite-based maps from ESA’s Respond…
GOOD GOLF GRIEF!
Tourism, which sells luxury and indulgence, can be a profligate consumer of natural resources.
Worldwide, 50 million people play golf. Each year, up to 5,000 hectares of the Earth’s land surface – an area the size of Paris – is…
While most scientists agree that Gigantopithecus died out long ago, some people – Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yeti enthusiasts in particular – believe that this ape is the source of tales of giant and hairy beasts roaming the woods.
The Gigantopithecus…
As the year is on its war to wrapping up with the memories of all the cataclysms it tolerated, giant Popocatepetl volcano of Mexico, threw up an ash column to catapult the incident to the list of the volcanic eruptions it occurred this year. The giant…
It is a complete skeleton of a long-extinct Dodo bird. Scientists claim to have found it. Then no humans lived there. The Dodo then used to romp Mauritius, where they were native to. It was in 1663, when the last sighting of a live bird was recorded….
In all his decades at sea, the man said, he’d never encountered anything like it. It’s the highly acidic mats of the invasive sea squirt Didemnum. Like the peachy-beige amorphous sheets, sea squirt spread like pancake batter over rocks and any living…
The Christmas trees not only survive, but thrive. The mystery behind it is decoded by a University of Utah study. It suggests that efficient microscopic valves let water flow through conifers about as easily as it flows through other trees.
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U.S. scientists have successfully used laboratory techniques and sediment cores from the ocean to trace how rivers change course over millions of years. Over the past 30 million years the Indus River has been discharging erosion materials. Scientists…
‘The forest is important for them.’ The mountain villagers are rocked by this realization as the nerve-racking earthquake on Oct. 8 flattened much of northern Pakistan. But, this lesson did not relieve the conservationists of their failing preaches…
Do you love yourself to be addresses as an eco-conscious citizen? How are you planning to go about it? – by planting more trees to neutralize your carbon emissions? But, do you know, by doing this you would do more harm than good! An international team.