When lawmakers evaluate the environmental effects of major federal actions, the views of local citizens and companies should weigh more heavily, a U.S. House Resources Committee task force declared.
To revise the National Environmental Policy Act…
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It was between 5 and 7 million years ago, the most recent common ancestor of humans and their closest ape relatives — the chimpanzees, lived. Scientists at Arizona State and Penn State Universities have proposed these new limits on the time. Compared..
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It’s no good news for sport utility vehicles, who escape the EU pollution limits. To impose stricter emission standards on vehicles, the European Commission approved a bill Wednesday. It also seeks to close a loophole that allows gas-guzzling sport…
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The ‘One Laptop Per Child’ proposal is continuously kicking up controversies. Keeping aside the questions about its necessity, arguments about its configuration, or push-back about whether it’s really even possible – did one imagine the explosion…
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Scientists have been warning these days that global warming due to pollutants may lead to the rise in sea level and other environmental disasters. But, a new finding has defied this concept claiming that future rises in sea level and other…
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Footprints dating back 20,000 years! Yes, I mean the Ice Age. Hundreds of human footprints of the age have been discovered in a dry lake bed in Australia. Scientists claim that they were the earliest footprint fossils found in the country. Adults,…
Q#8: Did Humans Exist in the Ice Age…!? Read More »
An extraordinary fungus has been discovered in the Dead Sea. But, how does it manage to thrive in such super-salty atmosphere? Once this mystery is decoded, it may open up new genetic approaches to creating crops that can tolerate saline soils. The…
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Drinking water in 42 states in the US may be more polluted then what it was with only H20 and fluoride. This has been recorded after an analysis by an environmental group has been made. 141 unregulated chemicals and an additional 119 are found by a…
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The perennially frozen soil across the Northern Hemisphere will no more be the same. The top 10 feet (3 meters) or more of may be decimated. And global warming is to be blamed for it. Call it catastrophe or cataclysm, if it happens, the phenomenon will.
Permafrost Across Northern Hemisphere To Melt in 95 Years Read More »
It’s plump, purple, and its ancestors probably lived among dinosaurs 175 million years ago! It’s a new species of frog. Doesn’t it sound and look ugly and peculiar? Yes, it has a bloated body with smooth, blackish purple skin. The frog’s pointed snout…
How Did the African Purple Frog of Dinosaur Era Travel Down to India? Read More »