Amidst debates on whether seas warmed by greenhouse gas emissions lead to more hurricanes or the El Nino and an African monsoon are the culprits, a new research adds up to it.
The study found that frequent and strong hurricanes ruled the Western..
Europe is one of the best studied regions of the world, but no overall view of the conservation status of mammals across the continent had been compiled. To fill that gap, the European Union commissioned the World Conservation Union (IUCN) to assess..
It’s a classic case of solution itself becoming the problem, as researchers in Australia planned to wipe the ever-increasing cane toad, which was introduced to control sugarcane pests.
Once, deliberately introduced from Hawaii to Australia in 1935..
In a major breakthrough, scientists have been successful in discovering that female hammerhead sharks are capable of reproducing themselves, without having sex.
The fact was realized when it was noticed that a shark in a Nebraska zoo gave birth..
Forests throughout the world are shrinking in size due to the ever increasing demand in timber and other resources. The most threatened forest today is Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. A new law passed in Brazil will destroy the remains of the previously…
Northern Illinois and parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana could see an invasion this week. The billions of periodical cicadas of Brood XIII are expected to launch their attack on these cities.
Cicadas are insects that spend most of.
The political unrest in Congo has resulted in trouble for the wildlife there and the militia has threatened to kill the rare mountain gorilla in the Virunga National Park.
The Mai Mai militia killed a wildlife officer and injured three others when.
The United States, despite being a major polluting nation, is planning to pour cold water on the plan to push for a new deal which will succeed the Kyoto Protocol at next month’s Group of Eight summit in Germany.
Washington apparently wants to delete..
Next time you come across a Sumatran Orangutan or a Wild Bactrian Camel, don’t be in a hurry. Take a pause, watch it thoroughly and if possible, get a snap as well. You may not see it anymore from the next decade.
The International Union for the…
The UK government’s effort to get fast approval for a host of its new power schemes has antagonized the green activists who flayed the move which, they claimed, would be “steamrollering” any objection to those projects.
Secretary of State for…