To prevent natural disasters from becoming catastrophic in terms of the critical civil infrastructure or life losses and property damages, a project is undertaken at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Auroop Ganguly of Oak Ridge`s...
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Fluorescent green pigs! Chinese scientists have successfully bred pigs that are partially green! These lab-bred pigs may one day help in boosting stem cell research, according to the Xinhua news agency.
The three transgenic pigs were injected...
Bodélé valley's unique features, not Sahara desert, provide Brazilian rainforest’s fertilizing dust!
Brazilian rainforest need to be fertilized by dust, more than half of which is supplied by a valley in northern Chad -- Bodélé Valley. The scientists are amazed by these unique features of the valley that might be responsible for making it such suitable...
A part of an island south of the North Pole has collapsed free! A giant ice shelf -- the size of 11,000 football fields -- has snapped free from the island. Using satellite imagery, the scientists have spotted this phenomenon, which within one hour...
After the Bush admininistration’s proposal for the polar bears protection, it is now the turn for the North Pacific right whale. To keep the world’s most endangered whale from going extinct, a conservation group is pressuring the U.S. government to...
China may face severe natural disasters and water shortages soon! And, none other than the global warming is to be blamed for it! Irrespective of its seeking to tame energy consumption, global warming is threatening to drive down the country's food...
Witness the brilliant combination of natural instinct and modern technology, China has come up with! Two days after two quakes struck off neighboring Taiwan, China has come up with an earthquake prediction system. This is not like any conventional...
With UK coming up with its first deep-diving, remote-controlled robot for proving mysteries 6.5km (four miles) deep down the Antarctica, University of Kansas in Lawrence researchers have also come up with a prototype pilotless aircraft that will be...
The invasive knapweed is considered as one of the most-destructive noxious weeds in the West. It notoriously crowd-out nutritious forage for their livestock! To combat an invasive weed, a University of Idaho researcher is harnessing the power of tiny...
About 450 years ago, the North Atlantic Ocean was found to be going through periodic warming. And it was during these time, extended periods of major wildfires occurred in the West. This finding has led scientists conclude that there lies a link...
The already wretched victim to natural calamities, Indonesia has been pounced with disasters like flash floods that have killed 100 people and displaced more than 400,000 this year can face repeated calamities unless it takes swift action for...
True, the effects of greenhouse gases are huge and widespread! But, perhaps not to the extent as seemingly being randomly concluded by scientists! This is revealed by the fact that drought – which was previously been thought to have caused by...
Great news for the bird watchers! 237 whooping cranes have already made their yearly migration, returning to Texas’ Aransas National Wildlife refugee. These numbers along with the number of currently captive birds brings their total population to a...
You must be busy preparing for the New Year party by now! But, did you prepare for where to send the leftovers that will be generated at the end of the party? Dump them just to rot in the nearby landfill to produce an unhealthy and foul air? Oops! Don’t...
Climate change is alarmingly devastating the Great Barrier Reef and in turn the food source of its exotic fish species! An environmental study has found that the fish’s food source is disappearing rapidly along with the changing climate, leaving the...
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