It is disappointing for Indian farmers and monsoon lovers to learn that India’s monsoon is weakening. Yeah! Once again blame climate change for it. And this may lead to droughts, which potentially may affect the world’s most populous region. Scientists…
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To add to the already apprehension of the people living around the San Andreas fault, a new study found that a powerful earthquake is capable of producing prolonged periods of strong shakings in the greater Los Angeles region! This predicted quake is…
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During the recent winter, a great part of the Arctic Ocean failed to freeze! Yeah, you read it right. It did not freeze completely as usually used to previously. And this phenomenon is spelling disaster for the wildlife there. This is eventually…
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The Mount Merapi has been erupting for weeks and has led to a red alert declaration. Volcanic activity has intesified of late, with continuous clouds of ash, gas and rock fragments spewing from its crater. Scientists say that one of the emissions sent.
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According to a report by Christian Aid, 162 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone could die of disease that directly attribute to global warming by the century’s end. But what is the solution?
In a bid to curb global warming, the Christian Aid…
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How did life originate on Earth? Here is another fundamental new theory that can provide an answer to it. There is an obscure undersea microbe that metabolizes carbon monoxide into methane and vinegar. Setting out to show it, two laboratories at Penn…
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Mount Merapi does not seem to calm down with its fury. With the volcano rumbling ominously for weeks, the Indonesian authorities have ordered that thousands of residents who live on the volcano slopes are to be evacuated as a compulsory
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The Earth’s magnetic field is gradually weakening. Is the Earth on track towards a polarity reversal?! The discovery has led experts to question on this. Data show the current decline in Earth’s magnetism was virtually negligible before 1860. But, it…
According to a new study, dragonflies are long-distance fliers. And they travel in the same way as the migrating birds! Researchers made this amazing discovery by following radio-tagged dragonflies from plane.
One dragonfly can travel 100 miles (160..
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Is it climate warming or human hunting that led to megafauna extinction? This has been long debated, and a new radiocarbon dating results supporting this explanation, has brought this controversy to a standstill – it is climate warming.
The mammoths..
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