Nitrogen is the main factor in creating the large and growing low-oxygen ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico. A Louisiana State University scientist, Eugene Turner, claims to have predicted this accurately. Turner said, he was 99.2 percent accurate in…
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The ‘Corpse Flower’ bloomed at the Virginia Tech greenhouse. People who don’t know much about the flower must be frowning at the word — Corpse – used to define the flower! This large Indonesian plant is powerfully malodorous.
The plant emits a…
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An earthquake struck the Pacific Ocean off Vanuatu with magnitude 6.7 today, according to the US Geological Survey. Centered deep below the earth’s crust, the quake was registered 75km (45 miles) from the country’s largest island at 0918 (2218GMT…
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Philippines’ 8,118-foot Mayon volcano threw six explosions of ash about a half mile into the air, endangering tens of thousands of people. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert to Level 4, the second-highest level,…
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The flash flooding caused by the burst of the Dechatu river that swept through an eastern Ethiopian town over the weekend has killed nearly 200 people, with 300 others still missing, according to police source.
On Saturday, the river burst flooded…
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Floods in many parts of the Indian state Maharashtra have killed over 20 people, over the past three days. It has forced over 20,000 people to evacuate. On Sunday evening alone, 10 people were swept away in the floods. Though the loss to property has…
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Scientists has for long, blamed global warming fort he increasing rate of glacier melting. But, do you know that the Earth’s crust flexes inward slightly when glaciers gets heavy, and springs back with their disappearance?
Based on these phenomena,…
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To add to the relieving predictions for the habitants on the coastal areas – that the 2006 hurricane season won’t be as bad as predicted – hurricane scientists informed that a Katrina-like monster storm is unlikely.
According to the researchers, the..
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The scorching heat waves whipping across the East and Midwest for nearly a week have already killed 27 people, leaving power outrages scattered. With temperatures rising into the 90s or higher, more than a dozen states, from Georgia to Connecticut, were..
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The pesticide content in your bottle of Pepsi or Coca-cola is now much higher than before and the government has not been able to do much to check it, says the Centre for Science and Environment(CSE). Three years after the CSE first broke the…
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