Typhoon Kaemi kicked-up rainstorms triggering floods, landslides and other disasters, which have already killed at least 32 people, leaving more than 50 missing in southern China, according to the state media.
After sweeping across China's...
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A new type of volcano! Yes, Naoto Hirano at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and colleagues has discovered a new type of miniature volcanoes in the western Pacific Ocean.
The volcanoes were spotted near the underwater Japan Trench and are...
Do you know, the most widespread industrial contaminant in drinking water is a cancer causing solvent? The solvent is used in adhesives, paint and spot removers. This is suggested by growing scientific evidences.
Compared to five years ago when...
There is a link between tiny, almost imperceptible, tremors deep inside the earth and devastating quakes that can wipe out cities! Thus, the secrets of earthquake prediction can be unlocked with this finding’s help, according to researchers.
It...
I know the images below will seem painful for you, as it appeared to me as well, when a friend of mine forwarded them to me. But these little, harmless, helpless creatures feel the pain!! They are being slaughtered by ruthless people and the worst part...
Cloning mammoths! Yes, that is what disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk claimed to be doing with the part of the money he has been charged to have spent for personal use or embezzlement. But, he says he has failed attempts to clone mammoths and the money...
It is alarming to know that food crops – the major ones – in the predicted future conditions of greenhouse gas effects will not be yield by the amount it was previously expected.
Growing trials of five major food crops are made in open-air field...
Yet, another discovery from the diverse unexplored wildernesses – it is a new type of cricket. The new species of the insect is found in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. It is located on the Utah-Arizona border, in a remote strip of...
California enters the 11th day today with the 100-degree heat resulting to the number of suspected heat-related deaths increased to at least 56! And to add to the nemesis of the climate, one can’t take the eyes off, from the terrifying views of the...
When we thin of healthy-food, fresh fruit and vegetables are the first ones to be put in the list. But, things are not so for the ones sold in Canada. Do you know, more than 20 per cent of fresh fruit and vegetables, tested federally, and are sold here...
At least six deaths are killed by the sweltering heat in Arizona and California this week. This includes a nursing home resident, who died after the air conditioning system there failed. In downtown Los Angeles, 99-degree temperatures broke the 96-degree...
The Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales are the oldest discovered open caves in the world. They date back to 340 million years! Petroleum companies discovered this while finding oil deposits using a dating method.
The CSIRO's...
Some predict that in the near future, environmental refugees may outnumber traditional refugees many times over. Global warming and sea-level rise could wipe out large coastal areas and many small islands altogether.
Few things could be more...
Amidst discoveries of underwater sand dunes by the dock of the San Francisco Bay, and that chance of a new ocean of being carved out in Africa, in decades, it has been found that the vast Amazon rainforest can very soon turn into a desert! Can we...
Torrential rain triggering floods and landslides, hitting most parts of the world hard, has killed at least three people in Japan, on the southern island of Kyushu. The region worst affected was Kagoshima prefecture. Situated on the southern tip of...
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