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Tasmanian Devils Threatened by Their Infectious Cancer: Study
The Tasmanian devil is reportedly the most powerful biter alive today. To add to it, its bit e causes facial cancer, which is spreading fast. It is to the extent that scientists now fear the disease getting transferred in tooth-baring combat. For ten.
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Manatee, Sea Lion Deaths Warn Human Health
There is much in common between human and a sea lion, an otter, or a manatee. The health of these ocean animals might be relevant to your own! According to scientists, marine mammals are often indicators of environmental problems such as disease-causing..
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Why Do Cannibal Crickets Devour Farmlands So Quickly?
It is a serious bother for farmers with Mormon crickets' capable of devouring their way across 50 miles (80 kilometers) of farmland, and that too in a single season! Mormon crickets are close relatives of locusts and grasshoppers. But, why...
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BAT Criticizes UK Smoking Bans
The forthcoming smoking bans in Britain have been criticized by British American Tobacco as it reported a 9% rise in underlying profits. The bans are called by BAT, the world's second largest tobacco firm after Philip Morris. The ban will come into...
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Ecology of 30 Million Year Old Spiders Trapped in Amber Revealed
It was more than 30 millions years ago; ancient spiders were trapped in amber. Scientists at The University of Manchester and the Manchester Metropolitan University have carried out the first comparative scientific study on it. Fossilized spiders from..
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Amazon Forests Protected by Indigenous Lands: Study
It is disappointing that deforestation in the Amazon continuing at a rapid pace. But, a recent study provides with some hope. It is that reserves of all types are providing significant Amazon forest protection, but tribal lands may be especially...
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Soft Drinks Cause Cancer!
Soft drinks are found to have traces of a carcinogenic chemical. And it is at eight times the level permitted in drinking water, as revealed recently. Tests have been conducted in Britain and France on 230 drinks on sale. And these have...
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Cook Inlet Beluga Whales Declining: Scientists Worried
Unlike in the 1970s, the huge number of beluga whales in Cook Inlet no longer delights locals and tourists alike. Last year, the number has dwindled to just 278, as estimated last year. But, what is leading to this disappearance of the whales left the...
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Mercury Level May Fail to Meet Wastewater Standard
Rainwater in Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) is higher in mercury contamination than the treated sewage water leaving the district. Like all large Great Lakes wastewater plants, the WLSSD is under federal order to reduce mercury in its...
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Bio-diesel Rental Cars Set to Hit Los Angeles
Rental cars, powered entirely by bio-diesel are now set to hit the Los Angeles city. It was three years ago, BioBeetle Eco Rental Cars started out on the Hawaiian island of Maui. And now, it opened for business near Los Angeles International Airport....
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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
