DrPrem Jagyasi

It is a known fact that there is continuous darkness deep down inside the sea. Did you ever thought about how sperm whales hunt in that darkness? Do they hunt in a similar way a bat does? Yes, these whales hunt like bats — by using echolocation to…

An area suffering from drought for 19-month cannot be healed with one rainy weekend! Rather, a light rain is more helpful than the heavy one. It is because; light rain gets absorbed into the ground, while a heavy rainfall quickly saturates the top…

Beaware United States! With New Orleans not yet been able to recover from the burns of the four major hurricanes, including Katrina that flooded most of the country, it has been predicted that the continent, this year, will be suffering an ‘above…

Yet another discovery – a dinosaur claw fossil. But, this time the finding reinforces the evolutionary link theory existing between birds and dinosaurs. A new study claims this. About 370 miles northwest of Rio, the fossil part was found in Minas Gerais..

While on one hand, 95 per cent of UK households buy bananas every week, on the other, the fruit may move down the road to extinction soon! Biologists fear that the Cavendish banana, sold widely in Britaish shops may disapper completely.

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Here is a good news for the environmentalists. The ozone hole over the Antarctic, which has all through a concern for scientists, is likely to begin contracting in the future, eventually disappearing by 2050. And this is happening with the release of…

You can address this step as another important move towards establishing a post-Kyoto framework. To help cut greenhouse gases, Canada is likely to follow the six-nation Asian-based climate pact to become the next country to join it.

After meeting…

The painted frog (Atelopus ebenoides marinkellei), famed to have been wiped out in 1995 by a lethal skin fungus, known as chytridiomycosisare, is still living after all. After 11 years of anonymity, Professor Carlos Rocha and a team of researchers from…

A leading conservationist group informs that fish stocks, living in international waters are being devastated to the point of extinction! According to a WWF report, illegal fishing and deep water bottom trawling are responsible for this devastation….