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Do you know, the Arctic was extremely warm, unusually wet and ice-free 55 million years ago?! This is found by the ocean-floor sediment cores’ new analysis, which was collected near the North Pole. This finding bolsters the prediction that massive…

The most powerful typhoon – Saomai — hit China in 50 years, raging across its southeastern coast Thursday. It claimed at least 111 lives, capsizing ships, destroying buildings — forcing 1.5 million people from their homes!

The winds swept across the.

Capturing and burying CO2 deep within sediments on the ocean bed — Is it the right alternative solution to the failure of curbing carbon dioxide emissions across the world? Or how safe is it in the long run? According to researchers, ocean bed is the..

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…