Gisele Bundchen has joined the noble fight to conserve and protect the Amazon's Xingu River from deforestation and pollution.
The Brazilian supermodel has approved to endorse Y Ikatu Xingu ("Clean and Good Xingu Water"): a campaign launched by...
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Yet another new species of life discovered. This time, it is an invertebrate animal. All credit goes to the Hebrew University scientists. It is in Jerusalem, Israel. This species is being found at a site of excavation already opened for some other...
The quake struck Java has by now witnessed a death of more than 5,800. Aids in Large quantities have started flowing into the affected areas, with mobile medical team deployed on the outskirts of Yogyakarta. Roads have got congested, which in turn...
How do frogs cling to surfaces even with wet feet? This has always remained a mystery. It is only recently, scientists found that tree frogs has toe pads covered in tiny bumps, and this can directly touch a surface creating friction. This direct...
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq were devastated by the Hussein regime's campaign to ditch, dike, drain, and burn them. Since 2003, they are left destroyed. Nature, took its own heed to restore it. It got reflooded, and...
Scientists have been adding on fearful after-effects of global warming. Here is another reason for one to worry of increasing temperature of the planet - it will lead to more and itchier poison ivy! Yes, that is what the researchers reported on...
The summer temperatures across Pakistan are shooting up, with mercury levels reaching 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit) in some parts of Punjab! The monthlong spell of the extreme heat has already killed at least 90 people. Most of them,...
Warnings for the first tropical storm of the eastern Pacific season - Aletta have been lifted, as the storm moved out farther to the sea. Aletta could bring along with it, heavy rainfall along with flash floods and mudslides to the mountainous coast....
Up to 85% of Britain's songbirds are already lost! Not hunting, but grey squirrels and wild cats along with predatory birds like sparrow-hawks, are turning their lives havoc, according to a study. Predatory animals have joined hands with modern...
Two days have passed, but the quake is still having its merciless effects on the hard-hit heavily populated districts of central Java, Indonesia. Death toll has nearly reached the 5000 mark, leaving 4,000 injured - according to the country's Social...
The Indonesian earthquake that rocked the southern coast of central Java island early Saturday, has by now killed atleast 2500 people, injuring thousands more. More and more injured people are being brought to the city's main hospital. Buses and...
Countries that are signed up to the Kyoto Protocol plans to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions after 2012. To set the new and tougher rules, 160 countries reaffirmed the plans on Friday in a conference in Bonn held from May 15 to 26. However, the...
Compared to other parts of the world, the atmosphere in the subtropical areas is warming faster. The effect is the maximum around regions 30 degrees north and south latitude. It is not just this! After scrutinizing more than 25 years of satellite...
This year, Thailand is expecting a catastrophic lash from nature - it is predicted to be something worse than the usual floods. The expected La Nina wet weather pattern is to be blamerd for the nature's rage.
Samith, head of the national...
Wish technology could help predict, rather forecast tsunamis, hurricanes and catastrophic flash floods! So, many countries and lands wuld not have left devastated to this extent, especially million of people's life would have been saved.
True,...
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