It is the second ‘most endangered river’ in the United States. Yes, I am talking about the Yellowstone River in Park County, Mont. The 80-mile stretch of the river’s development in the Upper floodplain is risking the new homes and the waterway’s wild…
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Here are worms that feel cozy at temperatures of 45-55 degrees Celsius (113-131 degrees Fahrenheit). Yes, they dwell at hydrothermal vents deep in the sea. This aspecies of worm, named Paralvinella sulfincola, live deep into the ocean at some 2,200…
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Six new frog species discovered over just a two-year period! Yes, it all happened in the Southeast Asia nation of Lao PDR. But, little is known about these new frogs, excepting that the place where they live and how they differ morphologically from…
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Uncompromising trade of oak plants possibly led to the introduction of a microbe that killed hundreds of thousands of oaks and tanoaks along the Pacific Coast, plant pathologists at the University of California, Berkeley said.
The study has…
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It is beneath the mountain ranges the continental plates are active. And their movements are effected directly by rainfall on the land’s surface. Yes, the erosion caused by rainfall is also responsible for the movements. A University of Toronto…
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Gabbro, a hard, black rock that forms by slow cooling of the molten magma trapped beneath Earth’s surface has been discovered for the first time under intact ocean crust.
It is aboard the research drilling ship JOIDES Resolution, scientists have…
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Increase in agricultural production means increased use of nitrates as a nitrogenated fertilizer. And use of this through ages has given rise to environmental problems such as water contamination or even ozone layer degradation.
To find a solution to..
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A newly found fossil could be the most primitive snake ever unearthed. The fossils of the legged snake with ‘hips’ have kicked up debates among scientists on the evolution of snakes, as the new finding suggests early snakes were not sea…
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With nuclear power being increasingly appreciated and accepted across the world, United Nations health agency fears the health crisis may rise out of nuclear disaster. It said Tuesday that nuclear radiation may lead to cancer death of about 9,300…
Will Chernobyl nuclear disaster kill 9,300 or 90,000? Read More »
A new discovery about the Antarctic has smashed the age-old thought that sub-glacial lakes had been completely sealed for millions of years, and it enables evolution of unique species in them. The buried lakes of Antarctica are surprisingly found to be…
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