Tsunami has still left scars in the mind of all, not mentioning the victims! But, it did not shake the world only in 2004, but also sometimes 8,000 years ago! But, what made it happen?
According to geological evidences, the eastern flanks of Mount...
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750 million years ago the Earth was in its ice age with its oceans nearly completely frozen! But, what pulled the planet out of its severe ‘snowball state”?
It is the ratio of incident to reflected solar radiation that cover a wide range of the...
Where has Australia's all the megafauna disappeared? No, it is not over-hunting which is to be blamed! – but, a series of massive droughts! They were wiped out 40,000 years ago.
The fossils of giant kangaroos, emus and wombats the size of cars...
Do you know when you are settling into your warm cozy homes, with the temperatures dipping outside, you are doing much more than just enjoying your holidays? – You might be poisoning yourself!
The Environmental Protection Agency warns that indoor air...
Canada could be hurt by its retreat from the Kyoto Protocol, according to the United Nations Environment Program. And, its economy would be most affected, Achim Steiner tells Canadian Press.
An international emissions trading system could always...
Scientists have discovered a mystery about global warming lying in the clouds! Yes, in the clouds near the top of the world. The mystery lies in the droplets of water in the clouds. They are peering into them, which should be frozen with the North...
Have you ever thought of smashing the glass of that stupid tank in the super market where the lobsters are kept to grab all of them and run for the nearest salty body of water to liberate them before they are dumped into a boiling pot of water while...
With Russia getting a new forestry code, severe criticism has sparked among environmentalists. The code would transfer responsibility for forest protection and maintenance from the federal to regional governments, also removing it from private ownership!...
More than two centuries ago famine struck in Africa hard following record low levels of water in the Nile River. Surprisingly, faraway volcanic eruptions have been found to be responsible for the calamity according to a new study!
A cascade of...
The world would be a more dangerous place with nuclear weapons. Most of the nations in the world are now capable of converting uranium into gas commercially and are able to enrich that gas for fuel. These same facilities could be used to enrich...
It was a rare experience for a New Zealander. Only people in their late 70’s may have witnesses something like this in their life, and that too in their childhood! -- an iceberg from its shore. It must be one of about 100 that have been drifting south of...
Silicon Valley could be underwater within just half a century! But, what is the answer to the scientists’ fears and warnings?
1. The U.S. government’s taking the lead.
2. A new energy policy for the country
The tech investment guru John Doerr...
New simulations of the Earth's internal magnetic field reveal that compasses could start pointing south in mere thousands of years! That is reversing its polarity!
The more tidily the undulations in the Earth's magnetic field align with the...
Illegal poaching has led the Indian big cats to dwindle at an alarming rate! With 40,000 tigers in India just a century ago, decades of poaching have cut their number to as low as 3,700! Aiming to save them from disappearance, the Wildlife (Protection)...
Hollywood is responsible for creating an unwanted special effect in the skies above Los Angeles. A study by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Institute of the Environment, said the film industry was responsible for sending 140,000...
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