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Rapid evolution occurs in dogs. Do you know, a dog’s nose speaks a lot about evolution? Hinting a route to evolution, simple genetic changes can produce clear new traits in dogs’ head shapes. Do your dog have a scrunched-up nose or a long snout, be it a..

Deforestation of the Amazon River basin was underestimated by at least 60 percent. A report published in the U.S. journal Science claims this. The Brazilian government declared part of the Amazon River basin a disaster area, after a drought left the…

The world’s poorest continent is severely threatened with the aftermaths of global warming. Catastrophic endemics, ruined crops, or a cataclysmic mass extinction of Africa’s legendary wildlife ‘ devastation may come in any form and lush the…

As reported in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Wal-Mart is going green. We have heard of plastic packaging that is petroleum-based. But, the retail giant Wal-Mart is not only going green but innovative with corn-based plastic packaging. With the first…

Wasteful and unregulated methods of fishing are devastating. The Spanish fishermen are exactly doing the same with the stocks of deep-water sharks in the northeast Atlantic. They are using ruinous and unrestrained processes leaving more than half of…

Tiny rodents are damaging grass seed crops worth tens of millions of dollars. The gray-tailed rodents, Voles have been chewing away crops, especially the annual ryegrass, a staple of Oregon’s grass seed crop, are now moving into vineyards and orchards….

Can you imagine the perilous consequences of the already alarming carbon dioxide levels, if it rises by 10 times today’s level? Siberia has already experienced it as huge volcanic eruptions occurred, leading to the worst mass extinction in the last…

Glaciologists at the Royal Society in London, this week have busted the four-year-old claim that Antarctica would not contribute significantly to sea level rise in the 21st century. They claim that the ice continent could already be dominating the causes.

US may suffer a double of extremes of both rains resulting in severe deluge and catastrophic drought by the end of this century. It’s not me or any biblical prophet who is saying this. A climate scientist, Noah Diffenbaugh at Purdue University, Indiana,..

To the north-east of Australia, discovered only a decade ago, the already exiguous Wollemi pine, or the ‘pinosaur’ is one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees. At the last count, they are fewer than 100 in the wild. Thought to be 1000 years old, the…