A 47-million-year-old ‘leaf insect’ has been discovered for the first time. To add to the achievement and the scientists’ surprises, the prehistoric leaf-imitating insect strikingly resembles the mimickers of today!
The first leaf-insect fossil –…
47-million-year-old, first leaf-mimicking insect fossil found! Read More »
Perhaps it is the buzzwords ‘climate change’ which is ruling the world of research and after-effect predictions that led to the previous conclusion that the Australia’s giant prehistoric animals were likely wiped out by climate change!
But, the rule…
The commercial value of Humpback Whales was understood in the 18th century and by the 1960’s, 90% of the Humpback Whale population was decimated. Since the international ban by the International Whaling Commission in 1966, today whales are quite…
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Though on one hand, the conservationists have all reasons to be delighted to find the ‘once hunted to extinction’ fur seal reaching the record levels by breeding so lustily, on the other, their hearty appetite has given birth to fears that they…
This century’s end may see a devastation of a sea-life stock! These are the Pacific’s bluefin tuna stocks, researchers are fearing, would be hit seriously if global warming progresses at the current pace.
Already hit hard by over-fishing, the tuna.
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In the past 20 years, the ozone loss in the Antarctic has been ‘massive’. Compared to the same phenomenon in the Arctic, a new study ahs found that the loss in the Antarctic has been dramatic!
It all happened in the heart of Antarctica’s ozone…
Antarctic suffering "massive and widespread" localized ozone depletion! Read More »
The world’s largest mud city on Peru’s northern coast is being damaged by heavy rain! Several adobe walls in the ancient ruins of Chan Chan are severely damaged by an unusual downpour, according to a report by the newspaper El Comercio.
The…
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Is global warming already having its visible impact in Africa? A malaria-bearing mosquito — anopheles arabiensis — rarely found in Kenya’s uplands is reaching out in the high country of Kenya!
Though, before it can be surely concluded, a…
Is global warming leading to the malarial upsurge in African highlands? Read More »
An eon of colonial-era has kept reserved, the longest river of the world for irrigation only in Egypt and Sudan. It has all these days been denying its waters to Uganda and other upriver countries! But, three years of closed-door talks is opening up..
Scientists have found the biggest tsunami ever measured! It occurred on July 9, 1958 in Lituya Bay, Alaska. Triggered by an earthquake of 7.5 magnitudes, the tsunami itself was eventually created by a landslide.
Astonishingly, the wave produced…
Mile-Tall, Biggest On-Record tsunami caused by Landslide! Read More »