One of man’s closest and most enigmatic cousins, the Orang Utan, may disappear from the earth in just five years! Blame the booming palm oil industry, illegal logging and fires that are eating their rainforest habitat away even more rapidly than had..
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A powerful earthquake of magnitude-6.9 struck central Japan on Sunday, not just toppling buildings, but triggered landslides also generating a small tsunami along the coast! The quake killed at least one person, injuring 170 others.
Subsequent…
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With the changing climate bringing in more and more frequent storms, floods and natural disasters, bringing fears along with them, 21 European countries have designed a unified weather alert system that provides simple information based on icon. It…
21 European countries get unified weather alert system in 17 languages Read More »
What tore the ozone apart in the Earth’s stratosphere? Human-made chemicals? True. But, not to the extend what a massive solar flare did in 1859! It all happened in the last 500 years by the largest solar flare that may have shredded the Earth’s ozone…
Earth's ozone layer shredded by massive solar flares, not human-made chemicals Read More »
Heartening news in a world where we hear a lot about environmental degradation and an increasing number of species facing extinction. In a recent press release, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) revealed that a very rare species of owl, first…
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Scots! Here is a message for you. Want to combat your health record unenviable? Then gear up to protect, enjoy and respect the surrounding landscape of Scotland. ‘It is the key to improving your nation’s health’ — According to SNH (Scottish Natural…
Can you make out where these two images are similar and where they differ largely? These two images are of the same rocky outcrop on Glyder Fawr, in Snowdonia’s Glyderau range. But, astonishingly, in the later image no snow can be seen anywhere….
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Mass killing of animals for protecting another?! How friendly is it for the nature’s food chain? And to add to it, Alaskan officials are luring hunters with cash and other incentives to do this job – i.e. killing wolves under Alaska’s…
Alaska's program offers hunters with cash, incentives for killing wolves Read More »
Illegal logging has been a major concern because it’s not just a thriving black business but also a major contributor to climate change. Thanks to a new global computerized system that tracks wood, things may soon change for better.
Under the…
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Much to the delight of the animal lovers, grizzly bears are thriving in and around Yellowstone National Park at such a rate that they don’t require the protection of the Endangered Species Act.
Over the last three decades since the animals were listed.
Yellowstone grizzlies thriving, but experts oppose de-listing move Read More »