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Global warming blamed for recent storms in UK

Last Updated: Sunday, February 9, 2014, 11:10

Met Office`s chief scientist suggests that climate change is likely to be a factor in the extreme weather that has hit much of the UK in recent months.

Fish biomass in oceans 10 times more than believed

Last Updated: Saturday, February 8, 2014, 10:38

Researchers have dispelled the previously believed estimate of the fish biomass present in the ocean.

Green tribunal summons Ghaziabad civic official over concretisation

Last Updated: Friday, February 7, 2014, 20:02

The National Green Tribunal Friday summoned a Ghaziabad civic official to be present in court after he ignored the green body`s directives against concretisation of roads and parks.

Meet bumblebees who can fly beyond Mt Everest!

Last Updated: Friday, February 7, 2014, 19:59

Believe it! Bumblebees are capable of flying at much higher elevations - higher than even Mount Everest!

Ocean fish biomass 10 times higher than thought

Last Updated: Friday, February 7, 2014, 19:55

A team of researchers has found that the abundance of mesopelagic fish in the ocean that could be at least 10 times higher than previously thought.

Death of Tusker: Amimal rights groups fault Wildlife dept

Last Updated: Friday, February 7, 2014, 19:38

The tragic death of a temple elephant after it bogged down in marshy land at Kochi has sparked protests from animal rights campaigners, alleging that neglect by the wildlife department was responsible for the incident.

Greenland ice sheet melt causing four-fold global sea level increase

Last Updated: Friday, February 7, 2014, 15:58

A new report suggests that over the past two decades, ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet increased four-fold contributing to one-quarter of global sea level rise.

Diet of large herbivores like mammoths 25,000 years ago revealed

Last Updated: Friday, February 7, 2014, 15:16

A team of researchers has used DNA testing to give a unique view of the diet of large mammals which roamed the northern hemisphere in the last ice-age.

Scientists studying mysterious disease that killed millions of starfish

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 21:14

Scientists are investigating a mysterious disease that has killed millions of sea stars along the US west coast.

400 dolphins dead on Peru beaches

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 05:27

The bodies of around 400 dolphins washed up on beaches in northern Peru last month, baffling authorities who are so far mystified as to the cause, officials said Tuesday.