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A new home or a miracle cure needed to save the Tasmanian Devil
The Tasmanian devil which is at the verge of going extinct, can be saved only if some radical steps are taken. Suffering from the infectious cancer -- dubbed Devil facial tumor disease -- it spreads through mouth to mouth infecting the face with large...
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Earthquakes behind Volcanic activity: Study
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are two sides of the same coin. That is, both are related to each other and one can trigger another. This recent find of the scientists at NASA was published in the latest edition of the American Geophysical Research...
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Ottawa decides not to use Canada's forests as carbon sinks
With the Canadian forests inhaling a huge amount of greenhouse gases, federal negotiators wanted to allow industrialized countries to use forests in calculations that are linked to the Kyoto protocol's controlling of greenhouse gas emissions. It was..
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Kazakh government gets multi-million dollar loan to save the 'disappearing' Aral Sea
The human activities leading to the disappearance of the Aral Sea -- once the world's fourth largest inland water body -- is making it the worst man-made environmental disaster, according to the United Nations. Concerned over the prevailing scenario..
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China's farmland pollution destroys $2.6 billion-worth grains each year
The factories in China that are powered by coal and the polluted waterways there are causing damages costing billions of dollars, increasingly polluting the farmlands of the country, according to a report by a state press. Every year, 12 million...
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Tropical Rainforests- As man's saviour against Global Warming
All of us are familiar with Tropical rainforests as Lungs of the world because of the large amount of oxygen they produce. But, a new study suggests that tropical forests are very much a global air conditioner because they store and absorb carbon dioxide.
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Living species count reaches 1 million milestone
Cataloging every living species in the world, scientists have topped the 1 million milestones with the count. After six years of enlisting the species into the program, the researchers have attained a total of 1,009,000 species. Since the listing...
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Charitable foundation offers $100 million program to reduce global warming threats
To encourage making of policies in a bid to reduce the threat of global warming, a $100 million program is being created by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The climate change project of the foundation is being announced recently. But, coming amidst.
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Santa Catalina Island sees the 3rd bald eaglet hatch
It is since chemical contamination in the Santa Catalina Island has wiped out the iconic birds off the island several decades ago, this is for the third time, a bald eagle egg has hatched in the wild, according to conservation officials. Ann M....
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Forests in snowy latitudes may increase warming: Study
We all know that deforestation have its effects on climate. But, on what does it depend? - It's solely 'location.' The effectiveness of the tropical forests' reducing of warming by absorbing carbon is confirmed recently, according to a new finding...
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Eight weird tree sculptures carved by nature
Plants and trees have excellent flexibility. They are capable of creating strange works of unintentional art that you just watch them bewildered. There are artists who have given meaningful shapes to trees such as of tables and mirrors. Tree sculptures ar
The Big Question: Are vertical farms really green?
Why we are asking this nowThe concept of vertical farming is receiving a number of positive as well as negative feedback, right from its inception. Many agriculturalists and socialists have analyzed the usefulness of this concept in the practical world. I
10 Innovative curtains designed to conserve energy
Curtains are primarily meant to avert sunlight and heat from entering our rooms. Draping over the windows and doors curtains secure us. Here we talk about ten innovative curtains that can conserve energy in various ways. There are curtains embedded with s
What’s Next: Future homes to eschew apocalypse
As we know it The claims of an apocalypse-like situation may be wrong. But, it can't be denied that millions of people around the world die every year because of natural disasters like earthquake, flood, tsunami and tornado. The world faces about 600 disa
