The plan to stem the disastrous ooze from an Indonesian mud volcano by dropping 1,000 sets of concrete balls may be revised.
The reason is that the balls slid deeper than expected, about half a mile into the crater. It is said that many more chains...
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China has had the warmest winter in decades. Temperatures are at record highs even in winter. And the news it seems is getting worse.
Reports in the local Chinese media suggest that around 1.5 million people who stay in China’s southwest region...
As we enter the new millennium, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions is the serious environmental crises ever faced by humankind. To combat climate change an international panel of scientists...
Dozens of sperm males flock to the Strait of Gibraltar to eat squid. It is also the habitat of about 260 pilot whales. However, the route remains the world's busiest maritime lanes and every year several whales are hit by ships that do not see them...
Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, the world’s largest tiger reserve is under the threat of global warming. Decades of poaching and depletion of the natural habitat of tigers have lowered down their number.
It is the world's largest mangrove reserve and one...
Governors of five Western States (Oregon, California, Washington, New Mexico, and Arizona) have agreed on the plan to cut their states' emissions of gases linked to global warming and to establish the regional carbon trading system. The agreement is...
,All of us have heard of earthquakes cyclones, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Ever heard of a sinkhole? Well, there was one in Guatemala City (capital of Guatemala – Central America’s largest and most populated country) last Friday. After having experienced...
In Bangladesh, fish population is declining fast as rivers and wetlands are vanishing. Criss-crossed by around 230 rivers, including three major rivers the Padma, Meghna and Jamuna, this huge water area was once highly productive for fish and contributed...
Interstate 355 (I-355), a 20-mile (32 km) interstate highway and tollway located in the western suburbs of Chicago, USA is to be extended and its likely extension is going to adversely effect a certain species of dragon flies.
Their locations...
The Film Industry's Biggest Night is to become accountable for its carbon footprint. Nation's Leading Environmental Organization Initiates First-Ever Program to Reduce Carbon Emissions and Inspire Positive Environmental Change and hopefully the...
Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s plan to conduct an offshore exploration drilling in the Beaufort Sea which is being protested by the natives of Alaska. According to Earth justice, a nonprofit law firm representing five Alaska environmentalist groups, drilling...
In Antarctica ice sheets are
ontinuously melting due to rise in sea level which is the result of global warming.Research in the polar regions has never been more important to understand impacts of climate change but now the researchers are stressing on...
Biologists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, for the first time in over 200 years, and marking the come back of an animal, claims to have detected and photographed a North American beaver, which once considered indispensable to the city's...
Are we risking our health and environment with the development of new technology? We believe that air purifiers are an effective way to fight air pollutants but they can actually have the harmful effects, which we are not aware of.
New technology has...
Loggerheads which are among the world's largest marine turtles are considered as endangered by The World Conservation Union if global warming occurs at predicted levels.
According to the scientists in University of Exeter, an increase in temperature...
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