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Sep 12 2007
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...
Sep 12 2007
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...
Sep 8 2007
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to such an extent that dire consequences predicted by the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seem way outdated.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...
Sep 8 2007
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...
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Sep 7 2007
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been killing bees and puzzling scientists for long, new research suggests that the probable cause of dying bee colonies points towards a virus. This poses a dangerous situation for commercial beekeepers world wide if...
Sep 5 2007
Surprising though it might seem, a global warming side effect seems to have made it very much possible to grow sunflowers in the arctic cold! Elisabeth Iversen’s garden on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen is a defiant reminder of a warmer...
Sep 5 2007
Ethiopian authorities have come up with cruel plans to kill thousands of stray dogs ahead of the Coptic millennium celebrations next week. They are to be fed meat laced with strychnine, a cheap and powerful poison often used to kill rats that causes a...
Sep 5 2007
In the midst of a growing concern about pollution ahead of the 2008 Olympics, China is coming down heavily on the drug industry after focusing on polluted rivers in July. China’s environmental watchdog has closed down or suspended 649 firms and...
Sep 4 2007
We choose Oil palm plantations instead of orangutans, quick bucks over later losses. Even as their limited habitats are destroyed, they cling precariously to life. From a once-mighty orange army of 300,000 their numbers have dwindled to 25,000...
Sep 4 2007
Drought-resistant ankole cattle are being displaced from African farms by the northern hemisphere’s holstein-friesian dairy cows, which produce much more milk. We are close to witnessing another major drawback of introducing invasive species....