Caribbean waters have suffered the biggest loss of reefs last year. A one-two punch of bleaching from record hot water has been followed by disease, which killed ancient and delicate coral -- scientists have ever witnessed in the Caribbean...
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Lake Vostok is a frozen lake in Antarctica that has been cut off below the ice for 15 million years. Having its story of its own, researchers have found traces of a heat-loving bacterium that may live beneath the frozen lake!
Must have been...
As a respond to rising concern about the supply and cost of energy from abroad, the Baltimore government set tighter gas mileage rules Wednesday for pickups and sport utility vehicles, which include bulky SUVs like the Hummer H2 and Chevrolet...
California condors were spotted nesting in the northern part of the state! They are seen for the first time in more than 100 years! – According to scientists. It was on Monday, the condor couple was found displaying typical nesting behavior inside a...
It might sound self-serving or plain nutty that Vinod Khoshla, a Silicon Valley billionaire wants to save the world from oil. But, he eyes a new target—the oil industry. He and Stephen Bing, a flamboyant Hollywood producer, are financing a campaign...
Ocean surface phenomena including wind, waves, oil slicks, even the eyes of hurricanes are being routinely observed by space-based radar instruments for more than a decade now. The same principle is now employed to help satellite radar begin to...
Here comes a relief to the wildlife of the islands of the Pacific. To conserve the fragile wildlife, a major initiative has been launched, which includes a commitment to protect nearly a third of coastal waters and a fifth of the land area of...
The Northeast may be the next U.S. region to experience a direct hit from a major hurricane! Forecasters for the private weather service AccuWeather informed this. he As he compares previous periods of intense hurricane activity with the current...
An ancient skull is unearthed in Ethiopia by fossil hunters. According to them, it could be a "missing link" between Homo erectus and modern people. The skull could be between 500,000 and 250,000 years old! Discovered at Gawis in Ethiopia's...
It has been reported earlier that more than 800 species animal and plant species face extinction. Whose responsibility is it to conserve them? May be all! But, where from will the fund come? The richer countries?
The Brazilian President Luis Inacio...
Eastern North America is having snow melt and runoff into rivers. And this time it did earlier than it did in the first half of the 20th century! -- The U.S. Geological Survey says. It is found that flows in many rivers in the northern United States and...
The planet earth may have been evolved by the LIFE on it. That ancient microbes provided the chemical energy to create the Earth's continents in which life helps create the conditions it needs to survive, is the idea. This is concluded by a nod to...
“Glacial earthquakes” are increasing rapidly. And it is caused by sudden large movements of glaciers. This is happening over the past few years, which indicates that warmer temperatures will destroy the Greenland ice sheet faster than expected, a new...
North Dakota farm children are found to be exposed to pesticides! And to add to the crisis, they tested an average of 5 points lower on standard IQ tests! To make these findings, the researchers studied two groups of children in the northern Red River...
Ice sheets and glaciers are melting dramatically and water from these is gushing into the world's oceans much faster than previously thought possible, leaving the scientists pondering on the reasons behind it.
The global sea levels are rising...
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