In another incentive to reduce pollution, the Kyoto protocol has extended project eligibility under the carbon-trading scheme whereby efficient coal-fired power plants will be able to sell carbon-offsetting credits. The U.N.’s clean...

Sailors had often looked for an alternate and short passage from Europe to Asia and Global warming seems to have made that possible for them. With warming temperatures the ice-bound sea of the arctic is melting, paving the way for the Northwest...

While the debate to grow food or fuel carries on, scientists are looking for plants that produce biofuels butsustainable. For instance in Mali, Africa, Jatroph mainly used as a natural fence between rows of their regular crops could very well become an...

I have always been petrified of spiders, their cannibalistic nature and appearance gives me the creepy-crawlies. Do you know as soon as baby spiders are born they survive by eating their siblings? Nevertheless, for once they seem to have come together...

Even as world human populations grow, other life is shrinking. With the imminent and ever-growing threat to endangered species, how much longer will they be around? This escalating crisis of earth’s biodiversity loss is moving at a fast rate,...

The floor of the earth’s vast oceans still holds many elusive creatures, a load of which seems threatened even before they have become known to humankind. Scientists fear that these deep-sea creatures are also unfortunately susceptible to...

With the warming world, changing climatic patterns and unpredictable forecasts of weather, NASA seems to have come to the rescue. They have discovered means to forecast a storm’s intensity by monitoring the lightning strikes near a...

Sex ratios being skewed toward girls, that’s a first considering the number of means in the market to get rid of unwanted girl child. However, in the cold arctic regions, particularly in the US and Japan having baby boys are becoming an...

Speed of the arctic ice melt has accelerated to such an extent that dire consequences predicted by the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seem way outdated. The movements of gigantic pieces of melting ice are creating shock waves that...

Do you ‘live to eat’ or ‘eat to live?’ Either way rising food prices are surely going to affect your Bon Appetite. Rising global population, greater demand from the developing world, unprecedented climatic conditions, an...