Can you imagine living with a toxic waste dump your backyard? Your children playing with dangerous and hazardous remains of TVs, computer keyboards, monitors, GSM handsets, and wireless devices. Laced with deadly chemicals and toxins these electronics…
What led mammals to adapt to hearing ability? One is sure to have a reply to this without much effort – It is wither the need for wide range of hearing frequencies or to capture prey or escape, or for communicating. But, when the question of their…
Even as world human populations grow, other life is shrinking. With the imminent and ever-growing threat to endangered species, how much longer will they be around? This escalating crisis of earth’s biodiversity loss is moving at a fast rate,…
Researchers had given some food for thought to Canadian and European governments about the impacts of cold water fishing in the North West Atlantic. Further details of this research which was funded by the WWF are detailed in a study released by…
Fires started by peasant farmers have spread to over 100,000 hectares of forest in Paraguay. The farmers follow the age old practice of clearing woods and renewing grounds for the new agricultural season. While this is an annual event in Paraguay,…
Less dependence on fossil fuels is a goal of many nations. To achieve this goal, the countries are using biofuels. There is ever increasing rush to promote biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.
Biofuels have come into prominence as they are…
The floor of the earth’s vast oceans still holds many elusive creatures, a load of which seems threatened even before they have become known to humankind. Scientists fear that these deep-sea creatures are also unfortunately susceptible to…
With the warming world, changing climatic patterns and unpredictable forecasts of weather, NASA seems to have come to the rescue. They have discovered means to forecast a storm’s intensity by monitoring the lightning strikes near a hurricane’s…
Good news for tiger lovers comes calling from Maharashtra’s Sahyadri, where a troupe of 20 tigers has been spotted to the amazement of wild life conservationists, sending a beacon of light amongst darkness.No, can’t be sure , especially when the…
Sex ratios being skewed toward girls, that’s a first considering the number of means in the market to get rid of unwanted girl child. However, in the cold arctic regions, particularly in the US and Japan having baby boys are becoming an increasing…