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Still No Inkling Found Behind Mass Death of Australian Eels
This is happening for the second consecutive summer in Victoria - the arduous mass deaths of thousands of eels. But, why and how is it happening? The scientists of Australia are baffled by agonizing phenomenon. Since, the waterways did not appear...
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Pigeons To Help Monitor Air Pollution
A flock of pigeons will now monitor air pollution. They will be fitted with mobile phone backpacks that will be used to monitor air pollution, according to New Scientist magazine. And this will happen in August with the release of 20 pigeons into the.
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Pollutants May Cause Heart Problems: Study Finds
We all know that pollution give rise to several diseases especially that related to lungs. A University of Alberta scientist says obese individuals who are at risk of diabetes are in danger of cardiovascular attacks when exposed to pollution. Jim...
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Sediment Could Be Responsible For Biggest Subduction Zone Earthquakes
Powerful earthquakes have been shivering the earth through ages, plundering cities and eliminating lives. True, we are helpless in the hands of nature that foster us. But, did we ever think of the reasons behind the atrocious shakes that occur in...
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5,000 Water Birds May Be Killed By The Estonian Oil Slick
The Estonia oil slick is endangering as many as 5,000 birds! Shores of northwest Estonia is got soaked with thick oil slick, which may lead to this mass killing that includes swans and a rare breed of duck, environmentalists in the Baltic state said....
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Bush Aims To Aid Climate, But Not Convert Green
Does this gesture of President George W. Bush herald conversion to a U.N.-led plan to slow climate change? Not at all - though his call to break a U.S. addiction to oil is a step to curb global warming. In his State of the Union address, Bush said he...
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Blame Washington's Hostile Weather For Drastic Seabird Deaths
Unusual weather patterns along the West Coast may be responsible in killing the seabirds, scientists say. There are mass starvation deaths of murres on Tatoosh Island off the Olympic Peninsula. Some marine food is crucial to the seabirds' diet. The...
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Mexico Signs Accord To Cut Fuel Emissions & Improve Air Quality
Mexico seems to have tugged up its shoes to drastically improve air quality by cutting fuel emissions. IT plans to reduce sulfur emissions by 50 percent before 2020. And for this, it has launched an ambitious plan, as informed by the environment...
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Infectious Cancer Wiping Out Tasmanian Devils
The world's largest surviving carnivorous marsupial is falling prey to a bizarre infectious cancer - and if this continues will soon catapult it to the Endangered Species list. It's the Tasmanian devil. The infectious cancer seems to be the cause of the..
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How Ugly Will Our Tourism Prove For Antarctica?
So, the 'ugly tourists', (as discussed earlier) not satisfied with the mess they have already created across the earth, are reaching out their ugly impertinence of exploring (or exploitation!) nature far to the virgin Antarctica. And it is...
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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
