ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

Ocean Habitats Are On a Steep Decline

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE 06.12.2019 08:43 AM

A crisis for biodiversity also risks becoming a major humanitarian challenge. Billions of people worldwide - especially the world's poorest- rely on healthy oceans to provide livelihoods, jobs and food and the range of goods and services that flow from coastal and marine environments.

The Impacts of Land Degradation

06.12.2019 08:30 AM

Preventing degradation is much cheaper in the long run than permitting it. Land degradation is the persistent reduction of the capacity of the land to support both biodiversity and human needs.

Breakthrough in the Discovery of DNA in Ancient Bones Buried in Water

06.11.2019 16:51 PM

According to carbon datings of the bones belonged to people that died 500 to 700 AD, the results of the study suggested that Sami People inhabited the Isokyro region in ancient times

New Study Revealed Troubling Changes to Food Web in the Baltic Sea

06.11.2019 13:41 PM

Since the 1990s, oxygen levels in the Baltic Sea have reduced, in significant part due to eutrophication, creating vast oxygen-free areas

Wealthy Nations Seek Solutions at Home as More Developing Countries Reject Plastic Waste Exports

06.11.2019 11:19 AM

Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors are following suit.

Scientists Uncovered the Hidden History of a Giant Asteroid

06.11.2019 10:43 AM

The scientists provided a confident framework for understanding Vesta’s geological timeline, including the massive collision that caused the formation of the thick crust

Plant Scientists Discover Gene that Can Potentially Increase Crop Yields

06.11.2019 10:41 AM

Researchers have brought this goal a step closer by finding Phloem Unloading Modulator (PLM), a new gene that affects nutrient trafficking by altering the channels connecting neighboring plant cells called plasmodesmata

Last-Ditch Calls for Further Investigation on Coal Mine Harm

06.11.2019 10:38 AM

Experts raised concerns that the ancient Doongmabulla Springs faces a ‘reasonable threat of extinction’ from Adani’s proposed Galilee Basin coal mine, which echoes previous research by CSIRO and Geoscience Australia

Philippine Inventor Converts Plastic to Clean Fuel

06.11.2019 08:32 AM

Jeremy Navarro has discovered a way to convert plastic trash into fuel in forms of kerosene, gasoline, and diesel.

Three Elephants Died in a Malaysian Plantation After Being Poisoned

06.10.2019 10:28 AM

Hashim stated that the three elephants were poisoned as revealed by the postmortem examination they conducted on the dead animals.

Scientists Detected Mass Anomaly under the Moon’s Largest Crater

06.10.2019 10:27 AM

A sufficient dispersed core of the asteroid that made the impact could remain suspended in the Moon’s mantle until the present day, rather than sinking to the Moon’s core

Facts About Air Pollution You Must Know On World Environment Day

06.10.2019 09:55 AM

BARCELONA -- Who is safe from air pollution? No one is. The United Nations are sending another warming on the celebration of World Environment Day. They say that 9 out of 10 people on the planet are breathing polluted air and that these 9 people can live at any given part of the world.