Be it fishing or commercial development, humans know no boundaries to make their ends meet – may even be at the cost of other lives. We, don’t seem to spare a thought for our very own nature, the environment we live in – devastating and manhandling…
River Yangtze’s dolphins disappeared! Thanks to human activities Read More »
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…
E-waste poisoning in Nigeria Read More »
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…
First modern ears existed 60-million-years earlier than thought, reptile fossils reveal Read More »
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,…
Red list gets bloodier: 16,306 species face extinction Read More »
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…
Cold Water Fishing Read More »
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,…
Paraguay Declares Fire Emergency Read More »
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…
Are biofuels really helping the environment? Read More »
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…
Deep-sea creatures, living in oblivion yet threatened from environmental disasters Read More »
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…
NASA trying to predict emerging hurricane’s strength Read More »
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…
20 tigers spotted in Sahyadri Read More »