If not of the pollution, people have grown conscious of their effects and after-effects. They have started worrying about more than just asthma and other respiratory problems. This is specially occurring in the Ohio River Valley along the Ohio-West…
Mayas civilization developed much earlier than previously accepted! The oldest known Mayan painting inside a ruined pyramid deep inside a Guatemalan jungle, is suggesting this new concept. Archaeologists, who dug up this painting, claim that the mural..
A magical antidote to poison, once sought by Regality, was till date only an object of fascination and mystery. The majestic spiral tusk grown by the small Arctic whale was known as the narwhal. But, science has shed light on the tusk’s unique…
It has overtaken the polar bears at the head of the toxic table. They are the killer whales – or ‘orcas’, as they are sometimes known. Among all Arctic mammals, orcas have ingested the highest concentration of hazardous man-made chemicals. Norwegian…
What is Ozone Hole?
The ozone hole is a thinning break in the ozone layer. A depletion in the ozone layers called an ‘ozone hole’ when the detected amount of depletion exceeds 50%. It was first discovered over the South Pole in the 1980s.
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It is doing this for a century. By now, it has evaporated whole lagoons and kindled forest fires, killed off fish and crops, stranded boats and the villagers who travel by them, brought disease and wreaked economic havoc. The demon is the drought that..
Over the last 25 years, the sand slowly takes control of the mouth of the Murray River, especially where the Murray meets the surf of the Southern Ocean and close the river mouth. It is Australia’s greatest waterway that’s declining. The undignified…
Agricultural activity now dominates more than a third of the Earth’s landscape. Global populations are swelling, and thus farmers are cultivating more and more land in a desperate bid to keep pace with the ever-intensifying needs of humans. Agricultural..
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True, the rapture zones of recent major earthquakes are immune to similar-sized earthquakes. And that too, for hundreds of years. But, scientists fear that they could be vulnerable to even bigger destructive temblors sooner than scientists suspect….