After traveling together for a few months, I’m downing my tools on Greendiary until 1st January 2006, and promise to come back with interesting and informative staffs for you to find here.
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Archive - December 2005
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Human beings are never prepared for natural disasters. There is a kind of optimism built into our species that seems to prefer to live in the comfortable present rather than confront the possibility of destruction. The year is bidding us good bye with...
26 December 2004 -- It is the dreadful day when the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami swept across coastlines sweeping along with it, more than 200 000 lives. Since then the scientists have been hunting for the culprit behind the catastrophe. By inspecting...
This long-standing conundrum has been decoded using genetic evidence from more than 20 species of locusts. Thanks to the scientists from the Universities of Toronto, Arizona, Maryland, Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture....
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...
One complete year has passed, but the tears in the mourners’ eyes show how fresh the wounds are still deep in their hearts. Tearful mourners from around the world gathered to light candles and offer prayers for the soul of the dead, their dear ones....
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 –...
This year is just to see its end. It has been injured thoroughly with natural calamities and cataclysms, like earth quakes, flood and hurricanes. Let us have a quick glance to the best blog-coverage on the worst hurricanes of the year.
Rent...
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...
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...
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.
John...
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...
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