Environment ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations are currently now in Germany with two major issues in their agenda –
* how to reduce emission of greenhouse gas,
* how to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
The key developing…
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Increasing water pollution has prompted the scientists in the United States and Australia to moot a plan for a worldwide network to monitor water quality. The US Government seems equally concerned with the issue and according to reports; a $300…
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Bear biologist Mark Ternent is busy these days with his daredevil act of entering the dens to assess the health and size of Pennsylvania’s bruin population. Ternent, must complete 30 dens by the end of this month to figure out the optimal ratio of…
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At a time when environmentalists are working extra time to find out the ways and means of curbing global warming, a Danish scientist played down the fears and said it’s more a political issue than scientific.
University of Copenhagen Professor Bjarne..
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Environmentalists have another reason to worry about changing climates after a US government report said this winter was the warmest on record worldwide.
This report comes barely a month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that..
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The 125 million year-old fossil remains in the Yan Mountains in what is now the Hebei Province in China have revealed a squirrel-like mammal – a new svelte. This svelte used to snag insects and worms scurrying around in the wee hours of the night….
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A bizarre type of animal that has been spotted on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo was, till date, believed to be a cousin of a leopard. But, on Thursday, the WWF has confirmed it to be a completely new cat species.
American scientists have…
A new range of natural insecticides is being made from a bacterium protein. It acts like a poison and can be transformed into a new poison-range for killing insects. And these bacteria harbour inside the intestine of nematode worms, and thus can infect…
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Lake Victoria at 68,800 square kilometres is Africa’s largest lake and the largest tropical lake in the world. It is the habitat for catfish, lungfish, and multitudes of tiny silver dagaa, or silver cyprinids. However, the Nile perch, an invasive…
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Scientists have explored a new way of knowing, how genes work in rice. Plant biologist Blake Meyers at the University of Delaware and colleagues have developed a large dataset of gene sequences in rice!
This information will help understand the…
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