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A 4.7 magnitude quake hits Spain
A tremor hit Spain last night suddenly waking people from their sleep. So far, no damage to lives or property has been reported. Spain is vulnerable to earthquakes for its location on the convergent plate boundaries between the African and...
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Florida gopher tortoise entombment comes to an end
With all the research aimed at saving tortoises, a Florida tortoise entombment scheme actually kills tortoises rather than conserves them. The pave and pay plan has killed a lot of these magnificent creatures in Florida. Although, the plan is to...
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Surging fish diet-demand: A health blessing, an environmental curse
The popularity of sardines and salmon-delicacies is on surprising because of their high nutritional value. And, such oily sea fish - rich in vitamins A and D -- is thus, no surprisingly, a favorite for especially the health conscious people. Be it.
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Brazil Govt: Amazon deforestation rate plunges by nearly 50%
The Brazilian government was on Wednesday set to announce near record deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest, the world's leading source of biodiversity and fresh water. The rates of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest had reached its near..
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Tall buildings, pollution trigger more fierce storms in cities: Study
It has always been an effortless assumption that high rises and skyscrapers in cities help break thunderstorms' strength preventing it from causing the maximum destruction, as compared to that of an area with least building structures - where a storm.
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Sunspots are to be blamed for heavy rains in Africa
Although, global warming has been mostly blamed for climate change, people should take the sunspots into consideration as well. A recent observation by the scientists, made them conclude that sunspots are to be blamed for heavy African rains. The..
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Hats off to the rangers who help protect gorillas at a cost to their lives
The guns they hold are not to protect humans but to protect animals from poachers and rebel militia. Armed rangers take on the difficult task to protect the apes in Congo. Their relationship with the flora and fauna is intense, coupled with an...
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Can bugs help conserve rain forests?
Rain forests are the lungs of the earth, everyone is aware of their need to be conserved. The last of Earth's living natural heritage seem to have unlikely champion amongst insects. A new study suggests that plant-eating insects in tropical forests..
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Warming during Permian-Triassic era stimulated the biggest extintion on earth
Present is a key to the past, but past holds the key to the future. The sudden change in climate set the evolution process at par with extinction, resulting in the disappearance of a vast number of species. Reason? Lets find out. Nearly 90...
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Australian port indicted for lead pollution
The Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation seems to be up with arms to turn the country 'green'. It has taken yet another, perhaps one of the prominent carbon-footprint reducing efforts on the part of the country's...
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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
