Honey bees, whose numbers are falling, must be given flowery “recovery zones” in Europe’s farmlands to aid their survival, a leading EU lawmaker said Wednesday.Bees pollinate numerous crops and scientists have expressed alarm over their mysterious and rapid decline. Experts have warned that a drop in the bee population could harm agriculture.
“If we continue to […]
A California-based computer scientist, a philosophy professor and a molecular biologist each received USD 500,000 at an awards ceremony today for this year’s Kyoto Prizes for achievement in the arts and sciences.
Computer scientist […]
Nearly the length of a human arm, a recently identified stick bug from the island of Borneo is the world’s longest insect, British scientists said on Thursday.
The specimen was found by a local villager and handed to Malaysian amateur naturalist Datuk Chan Chew Lun in 1989, according to Philip Bragg, who formally identified the insect […]
A state-of-the-art, solar powered version of the humble cycle-rickshaw promises to offer a solution to urban India’s traffic woes, chronic pollution and fossil fuel dependence, as well as an escape from backbreaking human toil.
The “soleckshaw”, unveiled this month in New Delhi, is a motorised cycle rickshaw that can be pedalled normally or run on a […]
Startling evidence has emerged from new research to show that when fishes get a mouthful of sand, the days of coral reefs are numbered.
“We’ve known for a while that having a lot of sediment in the water is bad for corals and can smother them,” said David Bellwood, professor at the ARC Centre of Excellence […]
A new study that directly links population declines in birds to climate change, has determined that birds that haven’t adjusted to the realities of a warming world are worse off than their more flexible counterparts, and could become extinct within a number of years.
According to a report in New Scientist, the findings, by Diego Rubolini […]
The deepening upheaval on Wall Street has rippled throughout New York’s business community, hurting everyone from luxury goods stores to charities to Manhattan restaurants, store owners and experts say.With New York already feeling the effects of a weak US economy, the fall of bank Lehman Brothers, the sale of its rival Merrill Lynch […]
A 160-nation U.N. climate conference in Ghana split on Friday over ways to pay poor countries to slow deforestation, blamed for producing up to 20 percent of the greenhouse gases caused by human activities.Options suggested for raising billions of dollars in incentives include markets that would allow trading in the carbon dioxide locked up in […]
Hi!I am going to move to country side,it’s lovely and quiet only problem is i will be about 200 meters from radio mast.Is it dangerous?Was very difficult to get mortgage and now we would be devastatet to loose the house only becouse this mast near by.But from the other hand what people says […]
A good example I found was from a British drama named Dr Who with a tardis or a blue box if you will that on the inside is huge however small on the outside. If this technology existed, we could store many things inside, including we could solve the problem of excessive nuclear […]