Global warming is having its bite distinctly at China’s Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Glaciers covering the region are alarmingly shrinking by 7 percent a year and the environmental consequences may prove dire, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.
The…
China's melting glaciers may very soon turn Tibetan tundra into desert! Read More »
While on one hand scientists fear that global warming will one day devastate the under ocean corals, on the other it is recently found that there are some reefs that appear to be able to survive higher water temperatures. And they interestingly do this…
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It was just within the short span of perhaps 400 years, North American mammoths, ancient horses, and many other large mammals disappeared. This happened some 12,000 years ago. But, what led to their non-discriminatory death? Though the scientists…
What wiped out the large ice age animals in just 400 years? Read More »
Once again, blame human activities for the increasing temperature of ocean water near the place where hurricanes form. It is over the past century, water near the Atlantic Ocean hurricane zones have warmed up, scientists claim.
As for a tropical…
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You can call it a radical and effective effort towards improving the safety of produce! Yes, I am talking about the law passed by China’s legislature. This is reported by the state media.
Concerns about the safety of food are rising, which…
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Plants and animals that live in the more temperate zones do not evolve as faster as those living in warm, tropical climates! A new study suggests this. This finding could help explain why rainforests have such rich biodiversity and not other parts of…
Why do evolutions occur faster at the equator than at the poles? Read More »
UK is planning to introduce a new law aimed at combating climate change. And amazingly three quarters of UK’s population would support it, Friends of the Earth’s survey reveals.
Friends of the Earth surveyed some 1,233 people to make this study….
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The greenhouse gases seem to have reached the stage of no return! They are still building up in the atmosphere rising the planet’s temperature. Though methane is leveled off, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide increased continuously in the air last…
Greenhouse gases rising continuously: NOAA Read More »
The world’s biodiversity agency has listed polar bear and hippopotamus as species threatened for the first time. The Red List of Threatened Species includes the two animals as threatened with extinction. This List is published by the World…
Biodiversity loss increasing alarmingly! Read More »
Green lifestyles need radical change; hence a radical action for it is needed. People need a clear lead from government, believes the Sustainable Consumption Roundtable (SCR). SCR’s report named ‘I Will If You Will’ urges measures such as taxing…
Green lifestyle needs radical action: SCR Read More »