In the early 1900s, blight wiped out nearly all the kinds of American chestnut trees. However, only recently, a stand of these trees is found along a hiking trail, which is not far from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Little White House at Warm…
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Conservatonists in India are concerned about the disappearing tiger population here. To effectively arrest this diminishing statistics, China has to co-operate critically and largely – as it has a huge and lucrative market for big cat skins and body…
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If one has witnessed the snow packed peaks of Alaska in 2000, be sure you save that image. Compared to its picture then, the peaks will have only 64 percent of the then snow by 2100, a new model predicts.
It is from 1977 to 2100, the new global…
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Reluctant to leave their homes in the beginning, even after high red alert, the Indonesian villagers who were moved from the slopes of the dire Mount Merapi volcano, are now back in their homes on Thursday. Even after they have been warned that a major.
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The coqui frogs are said to be threatening the fragile ecosystem of Hawaii, along with disrupting the island residents’ sleep. To fight these invasive species, the state has allocated $4.9 million. In this battle against the amphibians, 58 additional…
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Rising sea level and increased storm intensity are endangering many large cities, hence rising fears once thought to be a remote and distant threat. As much as 10 percent of the world’s population is vulnerable, the Earth Institute at Columbia…
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We all know that humans splited to evolve from chimpanzees. But, how complicated the evolution process was? How long did it take to evolve? When did the evolution actually occur? May be the replies to all these queries are not what we have known all…
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The planet’s core has revealed a huge slab of folded Earth! It can once be a part of the ocean floor, scientists contemplate. With this discovery, a theory on the Earth’s crust got strengthened. It is been said that the earth’s crust is constantly…
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Five companies in Britain generate much more carbon dioxide pollution that all the UK road motorists put together. New figures revealing contribution of heavy industry to climate change found this.
To meet these disastrous emissions, tighter…
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A 22-year record of satellite observations reveals that tundra areas show greening trends in a consistent and predominant way. While on the other hand, forested areas are showing a browning trend. The study centered on the northern circumpolar high…
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