Do you know that mountain glaciers are typically only tens of meters thick, which are shrinking with an average speed of 60-70cm every year?
More worryingly is the fact that the melting-pace of these glacier was reported three times higher in 2005...
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“Think globally, act globally”, this is the call that has come from IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) scientists to the people living all round the world. Climate experts urged that it’s high time that we have to acknowledge our...
I don’t just mean make up items, cosmetics include shampoos, body washes, sprays… and probably at least 5 items that you use daily. Many consumer products go through precise testing to make sure they are safe and healthy for people and the...
Queensland will become the nation's first to introduce recycled sewage to its drinking water, and the rest of Australia would follow suit as drought threatens water supplies around the nation. A referendum planned for March on the subject was...
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to be out in April, but a leaked draft in the hand of the Age is making serious headlines. It predicts dire consequences of a warmer world. Shortages in food and water, droughts, rising...
With the 89 centimeters rise in the sea level( as expected)in the costal of Indonesia, a country that consists of 17,000 islands, would submerge its 2,000 islands by the end of 2030. These apprehensions were made by country‘s environment minister while...
This is what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is predicting. The culprit again is global warming; coral bleaching in the Barrier Reef is likely to become an annual occurrence by as early as 2030 due to warmer, more acidic...
Athens, a city of four million people, produces 6,000 tons of trash daily. Since most garbage dump areas, that is land fills are brimming over, mountains of refuse have filled the streets in early January. A definite put down for a city famed for...
This country has a really fast economic growth, however, as far as improving and protecting the environment is concerned it lags way behind.It holds fast to its rank of the second largest producer of greenhouse gases after the US.
Its inexorable...
President Bush is calling for more federal dollars to conserve America’s oceans and coastlines.
In his fiscal plan for 2008, the president budgeted an additional $140 million to protect oceans, fish and ecosystems.
John Connelly, president of the...
New Zealand government has caught Japan on film slaughtering whales in an area that is an internationally declared whale sanctuary.
Conservation Minister Chris Carter released the footage yesterday at a press conference in Auckland. It shows...
A huge 500m deep Antarctic lake covering an area twice the size of Yorkshire and having enough water to provide London its water needs for 5,000 years lies under an ice sheet four kilometres deep.
Lake Vostok, was discovered beneath a Russian research...
That is what scientists are postulating as per a tooth study of an underground trove of fossil skeletons. Discovered first in 2002 in the Nullarbor Plain of southern Australia the fossils are of 70 animal species dating from 800,000 to 400,000...
Will we fight world war III for water or will we die due to the scorching heat wrapping this planet. These are some of the burning question which are constantly mocking at us.
No doubt, we have talked much about global Warming and melting glaciers but...
Star has been drawing curious visitors from the time she is born (Dec 27th), sometimes 50 per day.
Dairyman Kirk Heldreth had considered donating the calf to Virginia Tech for scientific purposes, or even selling her for show.
But now, things...
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