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Did the Earth have a crust since its birth? Or did it form through time? Lots of debates have stormed the issue, but, all left several open ends. Scientists have come up with another evidence to suggest that earth had a crust. These are the tiny zircon.

With climate change warning several marine lives and coral reefs, keeping aside the cataclysms it can create on land and its habitats, how can it spare fish stocks! The fish stocks already under pressure from over-fishing, pollution and habitat loss,…

How did life begin?
What were its earliest forms?
Where did it originate?
Was it chance or inevitable?
Is a biochemical understanding sufficient to explain creation?
How did early molecules evolve into today’s humans?
What can be said about the…

While on one hand, scientists are experimenting to see if underground lava rocks could be used as a storage depot for carbon dioxide created by humans, on the other Canadian oilfield have successfully stored five million tons of carbon dioxide, a gas…

Do you know how mush forest is destroyed each year across the world? Be it by man or nature, it is some 13 million hectares! Yes, ‘each year.’ It is an area the size of Greece, although the net loss of trees has finally slowed. Thanks mainly to…

There are grasslands, still largely unchanged by time or man. Conservationists and environmentalists all these time have been complaining of forest over-exploitation and its destruction by man. But, how are they prepared to make maximum use of the wood.

It seems history repeated itself 120 million years after a global cataclysm robbed the earth of the dinosaurs. But, the later one did not sweep out a species but, created a major shift. It was 55 million years ago, an increase in the planet’s…

The Bush administration made a rigorous approach towards global warming. Its approach to mercury pollution would require coal-burning power plants to cut mercury emissions more deeply and more quickly. It would also raise home electric bills throughout.

Millions of people across the world is threatened with bird flu. So, do in Vietnum. But, the source of it here seems unique and serious. According to the state media, the practice of using chicken excrement to feed fish in Ho Chi Minh City of southern..

Winter has almost approached. And people are warming up with the idea of romanticizing vacations. But, it’s not the same for ones concerned with the winter heating bills which will rise by 50 to 70 percent this winter over last for families across the…