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6,000 B.C. Settlements Unveiled in Greece
Though the first traces of human settlement in Greece date to at least 4,000 B.C., farming settlements seem to be dating back to as early as 6,000 B.C.! Archaeologists in northern Greece have uncovered traces of two prehistoric farming settlements, the.
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Northern US Lakes Losing Ice Coverage
It is happening for the last 30 years. The northern U.S. lakes have been losing annual ice cover earlier each year. A University of Wisconsin study reportedly suggests this. From 1971 to 2002, researchers re-examined ice trends for 56 lakes across...
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Mount St. Helens is Erupting Quietly
Mount St. Helens is erupting now! The current eruption of Mount St. Helens is now in its 15th month. But, how is it so? As volcanic eruptions go, it's unusually quiet. And it shows no signs of turning violent! There are no explosions; no ash is thrown..
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Insects Evolving With Wings Dominate the Animal Diversity Combined
Dwarfing the diversity of all other animals combined, they have evolved into an estimated five million living species. Insects always win over all the known species of plants, fungi and protozoans including whales and elephants. Two entomologists have..
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EU Likely to Miss Pollution Targets
A signatory of the Kyoto Protocols, the European Union was given a margin for meeting the greenhouse gas target. But, it is likely to miss it by a wide margin, the European Environment Agency says. According to a BBC report, the 15 longest-standing...
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Eco-jobs from Environmental Dumping Ground
Buildings are popping out now and then, here in there every day. And the amount of debris it produces each day is quite irritating. Neither the builders, nr the owners know much about what to do with the huge wanton waste produced out of erecting a sky.
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Swiss Voted in Favor of 5-year Farming Ban
The move, supported by and in the interest of farmers, ecologists and consumer groups will force the government to impose a blanket ban on the cultivation of GMO crops and the import of animals whose genes have been modified in the laboratory....
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Global Warming is Mounting in the Arctic
What would life be like if snow stops falling on the freezing tundra of the Arctic Circle? Life is harsh there now, true. But, if snow stops falling there life would be harsher. In recent years, snows have failed to fall as normal across large parts of.
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Early Earth Was Habitable: World's Oldest Rocks Suggest
When did the conditions for life arise? The issue always kicked up controversy and died out unsettled. To add to the existing controversy, a new research suggests that the continents formed much earlier than it was previously thought. Astronauts in...
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Tusks Hint Woolly Mammoth's Lives
How were the lives of the ancient woolly mammoths? And what made them go extinct? To get a reply to these, Rountrey and his advisor, Daniel Fisher, are analyzing the chemical signatures in a woolly mammoth's tusk that died millennia ago and was nursed..
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Eight weird tree sculptures carved by nature
Plants and trees have excellent flexibility. They are capable of creating strange works of unintentional art that you just watch them bewildered. There are artists who have given meaningful shapes to trees such as of tables and mirrors. Tree sculptures ar
The Big Question: Are vertical farms really green?
Why we are asking this nowThe concept of vertical farming is receiving a number of positive as well as negative feedback, right from its inception. Many agriculturalists and socialists have analyzed the usefulness of this concept in the practical world. I
10 Innovative curtains designed to conserve energy
Curtains are primarily meant to avert sunlight and heat from entering our rooms. Draping over the windows and doors curtains secure us. Here we talk about ten innovative curtains that can conserve energy in various ways. There are curtains embedded with s
What’s Next: Future homes to eschew apocalypse
As we know it The claims of an apocalypse-like situation may be wrong. But, it can't be denied that millions of people around the world die every year because of natural disasters like earthquake, flood, tsunami and tornado. The world faces about 600 disa
