You can address this step as another important move towards establishing a post-Kyoto framework. To help cut greenhouse gases, Canada is likely to follow the six-nation Asian-based climate pact to become the next country to join it.
After meeting…
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The painted frog (Atelopus ebenoides marinkellei), famed to have been wiped out in 1995 by a lethal skin fungus, known as chytridiomycosisare, is still living after all. After 11 years of anonymity, Professor Carlos Rocha and a team of researchers from…
Considered extinct, the painted-frog still exists! Read More »
A leading conservationist group informs that fish stocks, living in international waters are being devastated to the point of extinction! According to a WWF report, illegal fishing and deep water bottom trawling are responsible for this devastation….
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In the early 1900s, blight wiped out nearly all the kinds of American chestnut trees. However, only recently, a stand of these trees is found along a hiking trail, which is not far from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Little White House at Warm…
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Conservatonists in India are concerned about the disappearing tiger population here. To effectively arrest this diminishing statistics, China has to co-operate critically and largely – as it has a huge and lucrative market for big cat skins and body…
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If one has witnessed the snow packed peaks of Alaska in 2000, be sure you save that image. Compared to its picture then, the peaks will have only 64 percent of the then snow by 2100, a new model predicts.
It is from 1977 to 2100, the new global…
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Reluctant to leave their homes in the beginning, even after high red alert, the Indonesian villagers who were moved from the slopes of the dire Mount Merapi volcano, are now back in their homes on Thursday. Even after they have been warned that a major.
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The coqui frogs are said to be threatening the fragile ecosystem of Hawaii, along with disrupting the island residents’ sleep. To fight these invasive species, the state has allocated $4.9 million. In this battle against the amphibians, 58 additional…
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Rising sea level and increased storm intensity are endangering many large cities, hence rising fears once thought to be a remote and distant threat. As much as 10 percent of the world’s population is vulnerable, the Earth Institute at Columbia…
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We all know that humans splited to evolve from chimpanzees. But, how complicated the evolution process was? How long did it take to evolve? When did the evolution actually occur? May be the replies to all these queries are not what we have known all…
Genetic study throws new light on human evolution Read More »