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Scientists predict La Nina-less summer this year
The 2007 has been predicted the active hurricane season, and the changing climate across the world followed by aggressive natural phenomenon seems to be supporting the predictions. But, with the year rolling by, things do not seem to be happing the...
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Illuminating ocean floor vents may blind shrimps, but doesn't effect numbers: Study
Activities and the absolute unique ecosystems around the deep sea hydrothermal vents has always been a subject of curiosity and great interest for scientists. But, such study requires the dark vent-zones to be illuminated with high-intensity...
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Global warming is the reason behind changes in gray whales
The effects of global warming and El Nino have been on the rise. It has already caused some wide spread damage. Recently scientists observed that gray whales have been loosing weight and not reproducing that many babies. The cause according to...
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Butterfly exhibits faster natural selection
Despite the theory that states that natural selection works slowly and steadily towards a definite and distinct goal and it occurs in hundreds and thousands of years, scientists think they have witnessed the fastest evolutionary changes in a specific...
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Invasive harlequins threatening British native ladybirds to extinction
The harlequin ladybirds, an Asian species, are thriving evasively raising concern among the entomologists. It may soon oust the native British ladybird species, although the birds and butterflies have already been threatened. Initially introduced...
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Endangered wading birds in 'Alice's Meadow' booming
'Alice's Meadow' -- the Otmoor nature reserve -- that led Lewis Carroll author his Alice in Wonderland has all praise for its bird reserves. While the numbers of the wading bird are declining across the world, Oxfordshire's Otmoor nature reserve has...
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Microscopic algae protect corals from global warming effects: Study
The scientific fraternity working on climate changes across the world and its consequences are left worried with the predicted devastation it can bring upon the global ecosystem. Researchers and conservationists for long have been warning of the...
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Tiger sharks keep seagrass tidy for their marine neighbors: Study
Nature seems to be well equipped to maintain and keep its ecosystem clean. It is only man, who tends to interfere with it, demanding credit in the job, but landing up only disrupting the pristine earth's eco-balance. This is well manifested by a..
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Uncontrolled tourism destroying Himalayan ecology
From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, Indians take privilege in visiting the abode of Gods, that is, the Himalayas There are various hills named after Hindu Gods and Goddesses in the country and this religious fervor takes many followers to the peaks to pay...
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Brightly colored birds most vulnerable to nuclear radiation: Study
The brightly colored birds that shares the nature's beauty and captures our eyes and drive the bird watchers crazy, in fact are the most vulnerable to the nature's ailments. It has been "shockingly" found that Chernobyl radiation at varying...
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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
