The decision that allowed three foreign-owned processing plants to continue slaughtering horses for meat runs counter to a measure signed into U.S. law last November. Politicians and animal-welfare activists are up with their dissenting arms against…
Horse Slaughter Permitted in U.S., Defying Recent Law! Read More »
Elusive genetic variations that make people vulnerable to some of the most common diseases need to be uncovered, and on this line Government scientists are launching a major project. The project would also determine what in the environment — pollution,..
NIH Begins Genetics Project to Examine Environmental Influences on Disease Read More »
It’s not Tyrannosaurus rex, but its great-grandfather has been unearthed in a desert in China. Imagine how fearful it can be! It was the oldest known tyrannosauroid that lived about 160 million years ago in northwestern China. The crowned dragon is…
Tyrannosaurus' rex's Great-grandfather Dug Out in China Read More »
Will a vast irrigation project intended to help farmers in eastern Arkansas harm the rare ivory-billed woodpecker? A federal judge heard arguments on this Monday.
On this ground, environmentalists asked U.S. District Judge William R. Wilson to…
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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…
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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….
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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…
Arctic Ice is Melting: Scientists Fearing the Consequences Read More »
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…
Canada's Coast Rainforest Needs Protection: Deal Reached Read More »
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…
Indonesian Jungle Veils A 'Lost World'! Read More »
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…
Antarctic Krill: Source of Carbon Sink In Southern Ocean Read More »