With many of south-east Asian species being banned from international trade for their being critically endangered, can ironically be found sold openly in restaurants and markets in China’s southern province of Guangdong — famous for its exotic…
Deserted boat found floating with 5,000 rare animals! Read More »
With our climate changing fast, triggering concerns among scientists on the effects it would have on the earth’s life in the coming years, they seem to target even the most brazen and the remotest zones of the planet.
For a similar cause, ‘Pearl’..
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He smokes – this is surely not a reason serious enough to ditch your best pal, no? Think again, because a new study suggests that living with a smoker puts you in greater risk of an early death. To give you an idea, living in the Chernobyl radiation..
Living with smoker more dangerous than staying near Chernobyl radiation zone Read More »
Japan has proposed a successor to the Kyoto Protocol and urged the world to halve the greenhouse gas emission by the year 2050.
Ahead of the Group of Eight summit in Germany, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mooted the proposal he hopes would…
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After zeroing on the giant footprints which date back to some 125 million years ago, researchers have finally been able to decipher it and discovered that some of the dinosaurs were actually able to swim.
Scientists were trying to derive inputs from…
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For decades scientists have been trying to solve riddles over ancient mass extinctions. With some of the scientists coming up claiming abrupt climate change as the main cause, others hooked on massive volcanic eruption as the main cause that might…
Meteor blast led to mass extinctions 13,000 years ago: Study Read More »
A UN panel on biological diversity has said that indigenous people are especially vulnerable to climate change. The panel is appealing for international attention to help indigenous people who are suffering due to global climate change.
John Scott,..
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We have read about what may have caused the dinosaurs and the ice age to disappear – yes, a major and abrupt climate change may be the culprit. But, do you know, climate change has also forced those habitants of the Tibetan plateau to abandon their…
Abrupt climate change rocked Tibetan cultures 700 years ago: Study Read More »
Amidst debates on whether seas warmed by greenhouse gas emissions lead to more hurricanes or the El Nino and an African monsoon are the culprits, a new research adds up to it.
The study found that frequent and strong hurricanes ruled the Western..
Devastating hurricanes thrived in cool seas as well: New study Read More »
Europe is one of the best studied regions of the world, but no overall view of the conservation status of mammals across the continent had been compiled. To fill that gap, the European Union commissioned the World Conservation Union (IUCN) to assess..
European mammals facing extinction risk Read More »
