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New Orleans people will be evacuated and not sheltered: New disaster strategy
Hence, another new disaster strategy to face the approaching hurricane season in New Orleans. With the hurricane season expected to run from June to November, New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin has unveiled a new strategy recently. Previously it was planned..
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China's melting glaciers may very soon turn Tibetan tundra into desert!
Global warming is having its bite distinctly at China's Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Glaciers covering the region are alarmingly shrinking by 7 percent a year and the environmental consequences may prove dire, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. The...
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Some coral survive global warming by increasing their plankton intake
While on one hand scientists fear that global warming will one day devastate the under ocean corals, on the other it is recently found that there are some reefs that appear to be able to survive higher water temperatures. And they interestingly do this...
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What wiped out the large ice age animals in just 400 years?
It was just within the short span of perhaps 400 years, North American mammoths, ancient horses, and many other large mammals disappeared. This happened some 12,000 years ago. But, what led to their non-discriminatory death? Though the scientists...
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Blame human activities for frequenting hurricanes?
Once again, blame human activities for the increasing temperature of ocean water near the place where hurricanes form. It is over the past century, water near the Atlantic Ocean hurricane zones have warmed up, scientists claim. As for a tropical...
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China: Waste discharges near croplands banned
You can call it a radical and effective effort towards improving the safety of produce! Yes, I am talking about the law passed by China's legislature. This is reported by the state media. Concerns about the safety of food are rising, which...
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Why do evolutions occur faster at the equator than at the poles?
Plants and animals that live in the more temperate zones do not evolve as faster as those living in warm, tropical climates! A new study suggests this. This finding could help explain why rainforests have such rich biodiversity and not other parts of...
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Three quarter of UK's population will 'back climate law': Survey reveals
UK is planning to introduce a new law aimed at combating climate change. And amazingly three quarters of UK's population would support it, Friends of the Earth's survey reveals. Friends of the Earth surveyed some 1,233 people to make this study....
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Greenhouse gases rising continuously: NOAA
The greenhouse gases seem to have reached the stage of no return! They are still building up in the atmosphere rising the planet's temperature. Though methane is leveled off, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide increased continuously in the air last...
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Biodiversity loss increasing alarmingly!
The world's biodiversity agency has listed polar bear and hippopotamus as species threatened for the first time. The Red List of Threatened Species includes the two animals as threatened with extinction. This List is published by the World...
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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
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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
