It’s a classic case of solution itself becoming the problem, as researchers in Australia planned to wipe the ever-increasing cane toad, which was introduced to control sugarcane pests.
Once, deliberately introduced from Hawaii to Australia in 1935..
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In a major breakthrough, scientists have been successful in discovering that female hammerhead sharks are capable of reproducing themselves, without having sex.
The fact was realized when it was noticed that a shark in a Nebraska zoo gave birth..
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Forests throughout the world are shrinking in size due to the ever increasing demand in timber and other resources. The most threatened forest today is Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. A new law passed in Brazil will destroy the remains of the previously…
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Northern Illinois and parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana could see an invasion this week. The billions of periodical cicadas of Brood XIII are expected to launch their attack on these cities.
Cicadas are insects that spend most of.
The political unrest in Congo has resulted in trouble for the wildlife there and the militia has threatened to kill the rare mountain gorilla in the Virunga National Park.
The Mai Mai militia killed a wildlife officer and injured three others when.
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The United States, despite being a major polluting nation, is planning to pour cold water on the plan to push for a new deal which will succeed the Kyoto Protocol at next month’s Group of Eight summit in Germany.
Washington apparently wants to delete..
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Next time you come across a Sumatran Orangutan or a Wild Bactrian Camel, don’t be in a hurry. Take a pause, watch it thoroughly and if possible, get a snap as well. You may not see it anymore from the next decade.
The International Union for the…
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The UK government’s effort to get fast approval for a host of its new power schemes has antagonized the green activists who flayed the move which, they claimed, would be “steamrollering” any objection to those projects.
Secretary of State for…
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In UK, city dwellers are being encouraged to keep bees. A flower show has been organised to motivate people for the same and improve the dwindling population of bees in the country. Bees have lost some of their natural habitats in the…
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It seems that the two humpback whales, who lost the way during their annual migration and ended up in the rivers and ship channels of California’s Central Valley, will succeed in finding their way into the open Pacific Ocean.
Ever since these…
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