Levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has crossed a significant threshold and it may not fall below that for a number of generations, scientists have said. In 2015, for the first time in recorded history, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere surged past the benchmark of 400 parts per million (ppm) on average across …
Hundreds of snow leopards, an endangered species, are being killed illegally every year in the remote mountains of Asia, extending from China to Tajikistan, says a new report. Only about 4000 to 6500 of these elusive animals are estimated to be surviving in the wild at present. International trade in snow leopards has been banned since 1975. …
Bermuda Triangle is one of the most mysterious places of the world. It is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, where many aircrafts and ships have gone missing in mysterious circumstances. No dead bodies or debris of the downed aircraft or ship has ever been found in the ocean, which …
Fossilised leaves recovered from a crater lake in New Zealand provided insight on how climate changed and affected the Antarctic ice-sheet 23 million years ago, a scientist said on Thursday. The leaf fossils found at Foulden Maar, in the Otago region of South Island, held evidence of a sharp increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) …
While the threshold for the Paris climate change agreement has been achieved, paving way for negotiations to implement it in 2020 — aiming to limit the global temperature rise to below two degrees Celsius — experts said the world is already lagging by a decade.This, even as nearly 200 countries agreed at Kigali to phase …
So it might be the fourth of July, but there is no rest for the scientist and engineers who have been very bust successfully getting their Juno spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter. Launched in 2011 and spending almost five years in transit the NASA plucky spacecraft has covered 1.7 billion miles or 2.7 billion kilometers …
A well-known scientist has claimed that this year or next year, Arctic ice will disappear. It will be the first in 0.1 million years. The satellite images which provided by US National Snow and Ice Data Centre shows that this year till June only 11.1 million square kilometer area was covered with snow. Whereas in …
For the first time, Mark Zuckerberg spoke to astronauts at International Space Station (ISS) through Facebook Lite Chat. In this 20 minute conversation, Zuckerberg learned about their experiments and research. Scientists answered many of their questions. They said – “Human body is capable of staying a long time in space. Our taste has changed, but …
ISRO is ready to test its very own indigenously made space shuttle. It is the first time when ISRO is going to launch a Space Utility Vehicle. ISRO Space Shuttle is 6.5-meter-long SUV which weighs 1.75 tons and costs Rs 95 crore. ISRO Space Shuttle has been designed to present as an example of the …
Yes! Gravitational Wave Discovered, A long time ago in a galaxy far away, two black holes collided and just like when you through a stone in a pond and it creates ripples on the surface of the water, this collision sets ripples to the space-time. Now, scientists have finally detected one of these ripples or …