A butterfly with its colorful and bright wings, while romanticizing nature in its own rights, welcomes spring in the process bidding the long sticky summer goodbye.
Fluttering energetically over the lawn, these butterflies can do a lot besides...
Archive - June 2007
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Despite thousands of researches in the lab, decoding mysteries both of the Earth and the Universe, the nature seems to be still vastly unexplored. And, many findings that remain unanswered may link to a well known fact – decoding which may change...
Be it smog, acid rain or CFC's, air pollution or ozone depletion in the stratosphere, air pollution has long been threatening both human health as well as the ecosystems of our planet.
Though one can have an excuse of survival by exploiting his...
Man has gained its ‘merciless’ image from the environment he lives and thrives on. To let their ends meet, humans have over-devastated forests – with the northern forests in the war-wretched Israel hard to avoid.
The Hizbullah's rockets during...
The illegal markets across the world are flourishing, be it of rhino horns or tiger bones and skin or rare bred of exotic fishes, right under the much-claimed supervision of the concerned authorities.
So, is the condition with the critically...
Environment Ministry's plan to lease India's degraded and ruined forests to pulp and paper companies have drawn sharp criticism from environmental activists who say that this decision will leave millions of forest dwellers and tribals homeless and...
Sulawesi forests harbor a hoard of endemic species: More than 60 percent of its mammals and more than one third of its birds are found nowhere else on the planet. Scientists have, poorly studied the rich biodiversity this island offers. While the world...
If you think, that polluting vehicles and factories are the ‘only’ worst exposure to the killing poisoned air, then you are wrong. Even people, especially women in the developing countries living indoors are among the most exposed.
With India emerging...
With the climate changing, the need to understand regional habitats and their adaptation is growing importance. And the most prominent and effective indicators are the plants and trees.
But, such elaborate survey of every plant species, finding...
Since 1937 Russia is extensively exploring the Arctic region and the same efforts seem to be fruitful as recently Russian geologists have claimed that 1.2m sq km (463,000 sq miles) of Arctic region has abundant energy resources.
The Arctic region...
As I walked down the road that leads to my home last evening I saw them lying on the road, butchered, slaughtered, limbs lying asunder. All of Perry Cross road was lined with its old residents badly wounded with people passing by as if nothing had...
The decade’s end would see natural disasters along with climate change. Shockingly, these would create 50 million environmental refugees in the process, according to the United Nations.
Natural disasters are predicted to displace much more people...
The melting mountains across the world are popularly established as indicators of rising global warming and predictable effects of climate change. But, the story does not get so well on these lines when talk about Colorado Mountains’ melt-down....
It is somewhat like a tailored–tale for kids with human-sized penguins and King Kong-like seals engaged in human-like behaviors and talk alike man! But it seems, such fantasizing have been referred from prehistoric ages.
You can have just the like...
Since my childhood I was told that any creature should not be caged or kept in captivity, as they also need freedom as humans do. But for my utter surprise the crocodiles in the eastern India that were refrained from freedom and bred in captivity...
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