Global warming is stretching out its ugly hands towards Japan and extending them pretty fast too. The nation that prides itself as the largest producer of rice in the world is now confronting apprehensive time in its agricultural sector as the…
Global warming and its effects are nothing new to me. Watching the news each day makes you see many effects of it. It has been the reason for ice caps melting, rivers drying, floods, storms, El Nino & La Nino effects, drought and food crisis across…
Starving souls glare with empty eyes as their will slowly wilts under the continuous glare of the sun & more so with the lack of any imminent hope. They wait for a knight in shining armor to come show them the way in to pastures more green, quite…
As a part of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s ‘Lectures in the Sciences’ series, professor of atmospheric sciences and co-director of the University of California, Inez Fung told the world that we needed a more precise way to measure the…
Yangtze River, the world’s third largest river, has become one of the most polluted rivers of the world posing serious threat to animal and plant life. According to a joint Chinese-Swiss expedition supported by the Swiss Agency for Development, the…
In one sweep both the tiger-problem settled and old men sent to death. The Government of India has declared the steps that will be taken to save tigers. The pivotal measure is to induct retired soldiers. War-veterans are supposed to go inside thick…
Measuring the Earth’s crust’s magnetic signature is no new for the geologists. They have been doing this for decades, but by a multitude of groups. But, it was not easy to view a truly worldwide phenomenon using groups. So, of late, the data has…
I often believed as a young man that William Shakespeare was highly over-rated as a writer but only with time & experience did I learn that I was wrong. The magic of the master not only lies in his craft but his brilliant interpretation of human mind.
Despite a rise in the overall population of grizzly bears in the Yellowstone National Park, there is strong fear that the number of female grizzlies is actually dwindling. With rise in the grizzly population, the bears have been removed from the list..
The US is one of the foremost nations responsible for most green house gas emission in the world and for long it has refused to do anything to remove that dubious honour. But now the move for change and to usher in a new era is in full…