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.
It was between 5 and 7 million years ago, the most recent common ancestor of humans and their closest ape relatives — the chimpanzees, lived. Scientists at Arizona State and Penn State Universities have proposed these new limits on the time. Compared..
The ‘One Laptop Per Child’ proposal is continuously kicking up controversies. Keeping aside the questions about its necessity, arguments about its configuration, or push-back about whether it’s really even possible – did one imagine the explosion…
Scientists have been warning these days that global warming due to pollutants may lead to the rise in sea level and other environmental disasters. But, a new finding has defied this concept claiming that future rises in sea level and other…
An extraordinary fungus has been discovered in the Dead Sea. But, how does it manage to thrive in such super-salty atmosphere? Once this mystery is decoded, it may open up new genetic approaches to creating crops that can tolerate saline soils. The…
Drinking water in 42 states in the US may be more polluted then what it was with only H20 and fluoride. This has been recorded after an analysis by an environmental group has been made. 141 unregulated chemicals and an additional 119 are found by a…
The perennially frozen soil across the Northern Hemisphere will no more be the same. The top 10 feet (3 meters) or more of may be decimated. And global warming is to be blamed for it. Call it catastrophe or cataclysm, if it happens, the phenomenon will.