The UK Government and the Hindu community there seem on a collision course and at the centre of the conflict is a six-year-old bull named Shambo.
The problem started when Shambo, part of the herd kept at the Skandavale Temple in Llanpumsaint,…
UK Government, Hindu community at loggerheads over ‘sacred’ bull Read More »
With the world already beaten up with warm summers, here are some more predictions to bedevil the situation, especially in the eastern United States.
The NASA scientists have recently suggested that increasing global warming may further raise the…
U.S. summers to get warmer by 10 degrees in 2080: NASA Read More »
It seems, the consequences of the effects of global warming on Greenland Ice Cap melting are far more serious than what was previously thought. It will not just inundate the banks and create millions of refugees across the world. Melting of the…
Greenland ice cap’s melting may seriously affect ocean circulation’s future stability Read More »
Though the modern history recorded the deadliest tsunami of 2004 as the most nerve wrecking and devastating earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, sweeping away about 229,866 people, killing 186,983, according to a United nations report, it is not..
Tsunami inundated England 400 years ago: Study Read More »
As usual, political disputes are now taking their toll on the famously salty sea, lying at Earth’s lowest point. The Dead Sea, receding by some three feet a year for the past 25 years, needs immediate intervention by the nearby governments to save…
Quabbling neighbors mar Dead Sea revival bid Read More »
Despite various measures to control poaching across the world, the illegal, animal skin-and-bones markets are still booming. And, the result – many animal species are being pushed to the brink of extinction. Be it for political pressures or…
Now buried sensors to identify weapons and nab poachers Read More »
It is surely an effective initiative by the U.S. Senate committee in the effort to not just reduce fuel dependency on imported oil, but also towards capping environmental pollutions. The bill approved by it to force automakers boost their vehicle’s fuel..
U.S. Senate approves bill to set ’35 mpg auto standard’ by 2020 Read More »
At last, the farmers and ranchers in the United States got a weapon to kill the plaguing red fire ants. Thanks to a naturally occurring virus that kills these devastating ants, and also to the U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers in Florida for.
Virus-based pesticides to control red fire ants in US Read More »
If you have read in your school books about the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, then make a radical change of what still persists in your mind — the Tibetan Plateau is found to have already been a high desert perhaps 80 million years ago, and…
Tibetan plateau born before Himalayas, not its byproduct: Experts Read More »
A tourist, who desires to visit the remote fresh water highland lake — Lake Tlawi — in Manyara region, may very soon have to return disappointed. Located about 50 kilometers South of Mbulu town, adjacent to the Tlawi village, the lake is in the verge…
Tanzania’s tourist-attracting Lake Tlawi shrinks away alarmingly Read More »