Till date Amazon is regarded as the largest river in world by the amount of volume of water it contains but soon it may become the longest river in world as well.
At present it is second only to river Nile in Egypt.
This claim is followed from..
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A UN wildlife body has agreed that breeding tigers to use their body parts in medicines should stop and a ban on the global sale of ivory should be extended.
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Bears in the Rocky Mountains in Canada have taken to riding trains in search of easy food.
Three black bear cubs, each a few months old, had to be pulled down from train after taking a ride of 20 km on a train passing through national parks. The..
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Perhaps for once, humans have, though unknowingly, been serving the environment while trying to make their ends meet.
While on one hand, scientists are getting concerned with the environmental effects of vehicular emissions, on the other, a few of.
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Man can be addressed as ‘merciless’ when it comes to the need to make their ends meet. Be is large-scale farming or spreading suburbs wiping out forests and natural habitats, man forget to consider the indigenous habitats of a particular natural…
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Verizon’s new venture is to walk hand in hand with the nature. As a part of this, 550 trees and other plants are planted at the Verizon corporate campus in Bernads. This new greenery attracts lots of wildlife. According to John Parke, the New Jersey..
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That the ancient history of our planet was well dominated by beasts is clear from the series of dinosaurs being unearthed from across the world. Fossilized remains of a giant bird-like dinosaur have been dug out recently in China, in the region of…
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The marine world is under threat due to reckless human activity. The latest to join in the list of endangered species is the sea turtle of the Caribbeans. This famed turtle is now in the peril because of over-fishing and illegal trade.
Traffic, a.
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They have done what the Inupiat Eskimos’ ancestors failed to do more than 100 years ago. Staying eluded from a similar hunt, for 100 long years, with a weapon fragment embedded in the neck, a whale was recently hunted down off the Alaskan…
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The developed nations need to take measures to curb the ever-growing problem of global warming caused by the process of development and refrain from coercing developing countries such as India to obstruct their economic growth on the pretext of…
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