DrPrem Jagyasi

‘Earth might end up like Venus! Temperatures here may rise to 250 degrees centigrade and raining sulfuric acid!’ It is said by one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists, and cannot be ignored. Steven Hawking warned this in a recent talk in…

An orchid that fertilizes itself! Yes, it does not depend neither on insects, nor wind for pollination – it is self-dependent, rather independent. This procreating orchid is found in China. It’s named Holcoglossum amesianum. It is reported in this…

Japan does not seem to leave any effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Innovatively, it has planned to set up facilities for capturing and storing carbon dioxide underground. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has planned this facility…

Increasing carbon dioxide emissions have catapulted Kentucky to the list of states where the emissions level has more than doubled in 41 years. Kentucky ranks No. 7 on the list.

According to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, carbon dioxide…

Artificial ways to alter rainfall patterns! According to a new study, Phoenix and other arid region cities create some artificial conditions to change the pattern of rainfall as desired or wanted.

With a 12 to 14 percent increase in rainfall in the…

How does sea ice affects the water movement in the Arctic Ocean? To study this, more than $1 million federal grant money is given to a team of University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists. The study will be starting next summer. It will focus on various…

The giant panda is not on the brink of extinction! Past surveys underestimated its populations to have been left at about 1,000, but there, actually, may be as many as 3,000 pandas left in the wild, according to a research.

As reported in Current…

Cane toads have wrought havoc on Australia’s indigenous animals. It is in the 1930s, these toxic amphibians have been brought to the country from Hawaii to help eradicate the cane beetles. Since then, it is spreading in plague-like numbers across the…

The largest marine sanctuary in the world is crowned to a scattered chain of Hawaiian islands. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands will form part of a 140,000-square-mile (362,580-square-kilometer) protected area, and this is nearly the size of…

To see rats healthy you need to provide it with dirty environments like that of the sewers and farms. Two studies reveal that the mice that live in sewers and farms seem to have healthier immune systems, compared to their squeaky clean cousins that…