ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATEThis failed sewage plant is the Washington's largest sewage treatment plant. The sewage plant spilled around 30 million gallons of raw sewage into the Puget Sound due to this sudden failure in the treatment system.
A newly discovered fossilized ancient relative of crabs, shrimps, and lobsters 430 million years old which are also exceptionally preserved including its complete soft-parts was named in honor of Sir David Attenborough.
Lancaster University scientists created and bio-spectrometer that will monitor the pollution level of water. Rapidly increasing pollution taking lives of tadpoles which is impacting their existence.
11 endangered wild elephant got a new life after getting trapped for four days in a mud crater. Cambodian local villagers and forest ranger team rescued those elephants in four hours of operation
Hefty penal consequences brew for carbon emitting individuals and entities as the Paris agreement pushes for 80 percent greenhouse gas reduction by 2050.
Ice age is a period where the majority of the Earth's water freezes into ice by recurring glacial expansion. An ice age lasts for millions of years and till now earth has experienced 5 major Ice ages.
Telangana Archaeology and Museums Department scientists found the largest capstone from southern India. the weight of the capstone was about 40 tons and it took four hours to lift it up with a crane.
Archaeologists say they found a variety of seeds, pieces of worked wood, shell weights, twine, net and rope pieces. Calusa is an extinct society which lived as a tribe on the sandy shores of the Southwest coast of Florida.
Over the past two decades, the population of the bumblebee has been hurtled to nearly 90 percent, which is really very dangerous for species. A huge number of world's food supply is linked to the pollination done by these bees.
This year's maximum extent at the Arctic reached on March 7 at 14.42 million square kilometres and is 97,000 square kilometres below the previous record low.
Lethal fungus named Pseudogymnoascus Destructans is causing mass deaths in the bats of Texas. Scientists found this fungus can cause white nose disease which leads the bats to death. this disease was first found in 2006, since then it's been spreading at the speed of 100 miles per year.
The Dead Sea has revealed evidences of drought found after drilling its bed. With the evidences, scientists proved that their previous belief was wrong.
Twice every year, Earth gets to a point in its annual trip around the sun when its Northern and Southern hemispheres obtain the same dose of daylight, called equinox.
Arctic again hits a low level of sea ice. Scientists blame the man-made global warming. Global warming is hitting the Earth badly. Recently, scientists have found that the frigid top of the Earth has a new record for the low level of sea ice.