The city of Toronto, Ontario targets a cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 6 percent from the Toronto urban area and that too by 2012 – as based on 1990 levels. The city has released a planning framework on this line.
Following this capping of..
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Global amphibians are declining rapidly. Concerned with the phenomenon, scientists are studying for long over the role of atrazine in it. According to biologists, it is the pollution from this common herbicide that might be leading to the stream…
A common herbicide-pollution may be killing stream salamanders worldwide Read More »
Be aware residents living at the foot of Mount Juneau! While on one hand, the world fears of the aftereffects of ice cap melting, on the other hand, the city’s new online avalanche-forecasting system has sent a barrage of alerts this year — Juneau…
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One of man’s closest and most enigmatic cousins, the Orang Utan, may disappear from the earth in just five years! Blame the booming palm oil industry, illegal logging and fires that are eating their rainforest habitat away even more rapidly than had..
Orang Utans: ‘We may go extinct in 5 years! Save us’ Read More »
With the changing climate bringing in more and more frequent storms, floods and natural disasters, bringing fears along with them, 21 European countries have designed a unified weather alert system that provides simple information based on icon. It…
21 European countries get unified weather alert system in 17 languages Read More »
Scots! Here is a message for you. Want to combat your health record unenviable? Then gear up to protect, enjoy and respect the surrounding landscape of Scotland. ‘It is the key to improving your nation’s health’ — According to SNH (Scottish Natural…
Can you make out where these two images are similar and where they differ largely? These two images are of the same rocky outcrop on Glyder Fawr, in Snowdonia’s Glyderau range. But, astonishingly, in the later image no snow can be seen anywhere….
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Mass killing of animals for protecting another?! How friendly is it for the nature’s food chain? And to add to it, Alaskan officials are luring hunters with cash and other incentives to do this job – i.e. killing wolves under Alaska’s…
Alaska’s program offers hunters with cash, incentives for killing wolves Read More »
Illegal logging has been a major concern because it’s not just a thriving black business but also a major contributor to climate change. Thanks to a new global computerized system that tracks wood, things may soon change for better.
Under the…
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Researchers studying the critically endangered Irrawaddy river dolphin are skeptic about reports of a rise in the number of the creatures and fear the mammals are probably in greater danger than ever.
According to Cambodia’s Commission for Mekong..
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