World Environment Day 2018: India to fund innovative ideas for waste management

Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan added that a lot of measures have been taken since October 2017 to address air pollution when the capital city of Delhi suffered with the quality of air.

20 days ago

NASA's SMAP mission to help USDA forecast crops worldwide now

NASA's SMAP mission has created a global map of water level and moisture levels in soil that will update once every three days in an effort to help farmers sustain their crops and predict outcomes.

20 days ago

Sick whale vomits plastic bags during rescue, dies with 8kg garbage inside its stomach

At least 300 marine animals including pilot whales, sea turtles, and dolphins, are reportedly found dead each year after ingesting plastic in Thailand. The country happens to be one of the world's largest users of plastic bags, as reported by the website.

22 days ago

This dead deer getting absorbed into Earth is the most beautiful thing you'll see today

The picture, which is clicked by David Chancellor, was shared by National Geographic on Instagram and it shows how peaceful death can be.

22 days ago

Clean energy projects can drive fish species to extinction, says study

The study, which was conducted by scientists from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said SHPs also have a detrimental impact on the river flow and local communities.

23 days ago

Great Barrier Reef survived 5 'death events' over 30,000 years, it might not last this one

The Great Barrier Reef survived death events five times in the past, but it might go extinct this time because the changes in the ocean are not natural.

26 days ago

Antarctica has whole mountain ranges and valleys buried deep beneath its ice

The land area of the frozen continent has whole mountain ranges and massive valleys that keep the ice sheet stable and prevent ice from East Antarctica from flowing through to West Antarctica and eventually out to the coast, influencing rising sea levels globally.

28 days ago

Dinosaur-killing asteroid also triggered a global warming that lasted 100,000 years

The impact created a heat wave so intense that it melted rocks and set off wildfires that stretched across continents, with the increased temperatures on Earth lasting for thousands of years.

May 25, 2018

Elon Musk's plan to build world's largest virtual solar power grid in Australia gets nod

Elon Musk built the world's largest battery in South Australia last year, and now, work is set to begin in the construction of the world's largest virtual solar power plant.

May 25, 2018

Pluto, Solar System's dwarf planet could in fact be a giant comet

Dwarf planet Pluto might actually be a giant comet made of billions of comets and other rocks from the Kuiper belt as scientists find the composition of Pluto similar to that of comets.

May 24, 2018

Earth was one large ball of water before land suddenly emerged about 2.4 bn years ago

The entire planet was just a hot ocean till the mantle cooled and allowed the land to come up from within, changing the climate and geography of the planet, also, making way from complex plant life to emerge on land.

May 24, 2018

Worms with head like battle axe invade France: All you need to know about hammerhead flatworms

The hammerhead flatworms pose a serious threat to wildlife as they are known to have a negative impact on many helpful soil critters.

May 24, 2018

All life forms in Loch Ness to be catalogued, putting to rest monster conspiracy theories

Scottish folklore of the Loch Ness monster that goes as far back as a thousand years, has been a fodder for conspiracy theories since 1934. Scientists are going to finally put it to rest by listing out every form of life in Scotland's most famous lake.

May 23, 2018

An eagle and a fox get into a scuffle over a rabbit, here's what happened

Eagles are known to be strong hunters and a fox that got in the way of a bald eagle's meal was photographed being tossed 10 feet in the air.

May 23, 2018

Humans account for 0.1% of life on Earth, but have eradicated most other living things

A new assessment of all life on the planet has estimated that the 7.6 billion people on Earth make up for a mere 0.01%, but since the beginning of civilisation, humans alone have wiped out about 83 percent of all mammals in the wild and about half the plant species that ever existed.

May 22, 2018