DrPrem Jagyasi

A magical antidote to poison, once sought by Regality, was till date only an object of fascination and mystery. The majestic spiral tusk grown by the small Arctic whale was known as the narwhal. But, science has shed light on the tusk’s unique…

It may take 15 years longer to recover from the age old injuries than anticipated. It’s the gaping hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica. But, the question is – who or what is the culprit that is decelerating the recovery of the ozone hole? Old…

It has overtaken the polar bears at the head of the toxic table. They are the killer whales – or ‘orcas’, as they are sometimes known. Among all Arctic mammals, orcas have ingested the highest concentration of hazardous man-made chemicals. Norwegian…

What is Ozone Hole?
The ozone hole is a thinning break in the ozone layer. A depletion in the ozone layers called an ‘ozone hole’ when the detected amount of depletion exceeds 50%. It was first discovered over the South Pole in the 1980s.

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Birth of a new ocean! That is what the Ethiopian, American and European researchers claim. In the remote northeast, they have observed a fissure in a desert, which they claim to be the birth of a new ocean basin. This fissure is split open in September.

It is doing this for a century. By now, it has evaporated whole lagoons and kindled forest fires, killed off fish and crops, stranded boats and the villagers who travel by them, brought disease and wreaked economic havoc. The demon is the drought that..

Over the last 25 years, the sand slowly takes control of the mouth of the Murray River, especially where the Murray meets the surf of the Southern Ocean and close the river mouth. It is Australia’s greatest waterway that’s declining. The undignified…

The puffs of ice crystals that appear where ice and sea meet may not be responsible for the depletion of ozone near the poles as been previously thought. Thus, the seasonal dip in ozone near the poles cannot solely blame these popcorn-sized puffs of..

Though it is built specially to withstand Taiwan’s frequent earthquakes, it is believed that the weight of the world’s tallest skyscraper itself could be causing a rise in the number of tremors beneath it. A professor from the island wrote this in a…

The environmental blog, Pollution.net claims that Industrial Society destroys mind and environment. It adds, ‘Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking. If there are no gaps there is no emotion.’

Salon.com in its article, Land of milk..