DrPrem Jagyasi

The world has seven years to take vital decisions and implement measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions or it could be too late. This is what British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday.

Blair told a parliamentary committee, “If we don’t get…

International standards for the production of chemicals are set. Environmental officials from 150 countries approved a broad agreement on it this Tuesday. U.N. officials say that it is growing by some 1,500 new compounds a year with little oversight….

The effects of global warming are looming large in the Arctic. Scientists fear it while warning of melting ocean ice, rising oceans, thawed permafrost and forests susceptible to bugs and fire.

“A lot of the stories you read make it sound like…

Environmentalists and Canada’s timber industry had put an end to their long-running battle over a region of Pacific Coast wilderness. They often referred the wilderness to as the Great Bear Rainforest.

The deal governs a region of about 2 million…

An Indonesian mountain jungle has been hiding a lost world in it. But, it eventually could not go successful skirting it against the impertinent minds of the researchers. It’s the lost world in a literal sense. It is a home to dozens of exotic new…

They absorb and transfer more carbon from the Earth’s surface than was previously understood. New research on Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) reveals this behavior. Antarctic krill is a shrimp-like animal at the heart of the Southern Ocean food…

You can run your car with these endless fields of corn in the Midwest. It can be distilled into endless gallons of ethanol, a clean-burning, high-octane fuel to meet reducing global warming. And if this could be done successfully, it could end any…

It’s a common fear that unpleasant or dangerous side effects are occurred from worms. But, did you ever think of curing your asthma by infecting your own body by a worm?! You may not have dreamt of it, am sure. But, a team of British scientists is…

While on the one hand, climate change is threatening our long-term future on the planet, on the other, scientists are claiming it to have helped bring us into being in the first place!

Spurring our ancestors to stand tall on two legs, grow large…

To get the Florida black bear added to the federal list of endangered or threatened species, conservation groups and an animal welfare group are suing. About 3,000 live in the state and southern Alabama and Georgia, and Florida classifies the bear as…