‘We can avert the worst of global warming by getting united globally’. This is what a scientific panel sponsored by the U.N. will issue in its third study next month. But, how can that be done? According to the study, it would be possible by…
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An earthquake triggered deadly 25-foot waves this weekend in remote southern Chile, which swept away 10 beachgoers. Three bodies were recovered.
Chile’s government disaster centre Onemi said the three found dead by rescuers were a couple and their…
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Illinois in USA has been hiding under it’s ground, rainforests for long 300 million years! Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from the University of Bristol, UK and US colleagues have unearthed the amazing fossilized forests while workings at a coalmine there….
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After staying evaded from classification for more than a century, the giant, prehistoric fossil – Prototaxites – has eventually been pulled into the ‘fungus’ category. For decades, the mysterious fossil was mistaken to be a conifer, a lichen or even…
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After intentional snatching the Nature off its cleanliness, it’s now the turn of raw sewages to accidentally pollute the estuaries – the nature does not seem to be spared from filthy burdens adding on to it.
Almost 200 million liters of raw sewage.
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Yet another rare discovery of a new genus of living birds – with less than one announced globally per year – has been made on a South Pacific island. It is the discovery of a never-before-known frogmouth bird genus.
Hats off to the University of..
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The world’s rarest big cat, the Amur or Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), is on the brink of extinction.
A new census estimates that only 25 to 34 wild Amur leopards remain – at least 100 fewer would be needed to ensure survival,…
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Britain’s beaches are almost twice as dirty as they were 13 years ago. On average 1,989 pieces of litter were found for every kilometer of beach surveyed, representing an increase of 90 per cent on 1994 levels.
The report is based on information…
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If you live next to the sea, be warned, if not tsunamis the rising oceans could take away your home. A sudden surge in rising sea levels is all that it takes. The lives of over 1 billion people living in low-lying areas are at stake. A devastation…
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Can you imagine trees almost three stories tall, with branches like bottlebrush? Well this is the description of the world’s oldest trees and more information on the same has been discovered through newfound fossils.
The 385-million-year-old…
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