Some people in the UK have come up with a unique way of saving rainforest – “buy it”.
Cool Earth, a new charity aims to let people ‘buy’ parts of the rainforest to protect them. The charity is the idea of the Labour MP, Frank Field, known for…
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Swams of grasshoppers are hovering Chinese cities and have become an enigma for farmers. This herbivorous insect has attacked 1.2 million ha (4,600 sq miles) of paddy fields in south China, up 40 percent on last year.
Ministry of Agriculture…
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A breath of relief for the navy men who are worried and disgusted by their ships’ getting entangled in dense floating vegetation, while sailing across the western Gulf of Mexico, at least.
It is not easy to spot the Sargassum seaweed that creates…
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Compared to the mushroom fossils known, a 20-million-year older mushroom has been found embedded in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber, making it the oldest ever found.
What interests the Oregon scientists, besides the mushroom itself, are the..
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To quench the thirst of the researchers’ impertinent minds, they eventually come up with innovations. In a bid to understand the territorial behavior of the tuatara — one of the most ancient and rare reptile species on Earth – researchers have placed…
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Pollution has sporadically been hitting marine life mercilessly, even leading to mass killings, be it oil, chocking the ocean life to death, or algae-borne, their booming being led by pollution of the waters.
Algae, in large blooms release a toxin.
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SYDNEY-Australian protesters held a “picnic rally” against the logging of native forests while hundreds of Indian policemen swapped guns for spades to plant trees to highlight World Environment Day.
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Rising sea due to global warming is threatening the deltas of Sunderbans. According to reports, several deltas have already been claimed by the rising sea, many are awaiting submergence.
Several deltas have been rendered infertile, the water on…
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We have heard of various rivers, valleys disappearing and mountains losing their heights through centuries. But, if I say, a valley disappeared not in centuries or decades or years, but ‘literally’ in the blink of an eye!
No, am not fantasizing, it…
Russia’s ‘Valley of the Geysers’ lost to landslide ‘literally’ in an eye’s blink! Read More »
Singers carrying a beat in harmony have always naturally appealed humans, but it is the other way round when it comes to the Australian magpie larks. The more the duos are harmonious, more scary they are for others.
According to a new study, male…
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