It was in 1815, the island of Sumbawa in the East Indies blasted witnessing the most violent volcanic eruptions in history. Known as the "year without a summer", 1816 saw a global cooling caused by sulfurous gases and fiery ashes from Mount...
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14th Century Black Death plague may have triggered Europe's "Little Ice Age". And the Bubonic plague may have wiped out over a third of Europe's population, a new study suggests. According to BBC, the Great Plague skeletons were discovered from...
Hazardous materials are used for making cell phones, iPods and other electronic devices. And California, concerned with the effects, would require manufacturers to phase out the use of these under a bill introduced by a state lawmaker.
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Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – the three Baltic States have signed an agreement to build a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania. The Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian state-owned energy companies each wants to take an equal share in the project, the...
Surprisingly, all these were dug out from under an outdoor marketplace in Cairo, Egypt. It is a pharaonic sun temple with large statues believed to be of King Ramses II. Egypt's antiquities chief informed this on Sunday.
The site has been partially...
Here is another dilemma between economy and environment. The world's largest gold mining company, Barrick Gold Corp. of Canada planned to relocate three huge ice fields or glaciers to dig for gold high up on the spine of the Andes Mountains.
It is...
It is only in the next decade, we may no longer witness lions in Africa. Yes, it’s a story for just a decade to go, and the lion population could die out. Something needs to be done to save the estimated 30,000 animals. A South African newspaper has...
One of the world’s great rivers -- the Rio Grande is today reduced to a feeble trickle. It only seems to be awaiting its disappearance from the world map?! It is being said the land, next to the Rio Grande in Texas, has probably been continuously...
When dinosaurs dominated, the Earth was not overcome by a greenhouse period, but experienced rapid fluctuations in temperature and sea level change that resulted in a balance of the global carbon cycle, new research into a missing link in climatology...
Polar bears, according to scientists, are already threatened by the effects of global warming. But, Greenland's government on Wednesday introduced the ice-capped island's first hunting quota for polar bears. Though this declaring quota is...
Thanks to TerraCycle, a New Jersey company for contributing towards saving the earth from growing landfills creating a mess across the globe. The company is known for its manufacturing a line of 100 percent recycled liquid plant fertilizers.
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It is off the coast of Thailand, another colorful land of marine life discovered. Spanning several hundred acres and teeming with fish, it is a coral reef. And the World Wide Fund for Nature said Wednesday that it should be given protected...
When the world is burning with the global warming issue, its not only the right time for the manufacturers to mint money out of building products that contribute to cut on greenhouse gas emissions, but also or the scientists to discover alternative...
Dr. Glen Barry spotted us with the eon of drought in East Africa, which is crying out to tell us, what happens when climate change, over-population and habitat loss collide! The conservation biologist and ecologist, claims this phenomenon as the...
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