The giant panda is not on the brink of extinction! Past surveys underestimated its populations to have been left at about 1,000, but there, actually, may be as many as 3,000 pandas left in the wild, according to a research.
As reported in Current…
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Cane toads have wrought havoc on Australia’s indigenous animals. It is in the 1930s, these toxic amphibians have been brought to the country from Hawaii to help eradicate the cane beetles. Since then, it is spreading in plague-like numbers across the…
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The largest marine sanctuary in the world is crowned to a scattered chain of Hawaiian islands. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands will form part of a 140,000-square-mile (362,580-square-kilometer) protected area, and this is nearly the size of…
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To see rats healthy you need to provide it with dirty environments like that of the sewers and farms. Two studies reveal that the mice that live in sewers and farms seem to have healthier immune systems, compared to their squeaky clean cousins that…
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Do you know 13 million people die each year, from filthy drinking water, mosquitoes and other menaces that are avoidable? The World Health Organization informed on this Friday.
The Geneva-based WHO in a 104-page report ‘Preventing Disease through…
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Pollution, litter and over-fishing is pushing the once pristine habitats deep down the oceans to a point of no return damage, the United Nations warned. humankind’s The exploitation of the deep seas and oceans by humans are running out of control….
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It is very unusual to find a beluga whale nearly 1,000 miles from its natural ocean habitat. It is found found in a river in central Alaska. But then, where have this carcass come from? — the carcass of a young beluga whale. Scientists are themselves.
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Breaking the global trend of rising waters in the sea, the Arctic sea level has been falling rapidly – it is by a little over 2mm a year! These data are gathered by radar altimeter of the European ERS-2 satellite. Congratulations to the Dutch-UK team…
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Several wildfires across the rain-deprived Arizona have burned through more than 20,000 acres! The strong winds blowing there turned havoc as it was thwarting the efforts to battle these gourmand wildfires.
Forcing more than 100 homes to evacuate on..
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Long-frozen soil in Siberia has been treasuring roots and bones for ages. And these ancient roots and bones now are starting to thaw. But, the scientists fear that this phenomenon can accelerate global warming, as these materials have the potential to…