Initiative 20×20 – Latin America to replant 20 million hectares of forest by 2020
At the UN Climate Summit in Lima seven Latin American and Caribbean countries pledged to replant 20 million hectares of forest (an area larger...
Titan’s sand dunes created by shifting winds, say researchers
Using a specially engineered wind tunnel scientists have discovered how wind-blown dunes form on Titan - Saturn’s largest moon.
Titan has dunes that are hundreds...
Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator breaks particle acceleration record
Scientists have managed to accelerate subatomic particles to the absolute highest energies recorded to date using a compact accelerator. It was the first-attempt of...
NASA’s Curiosity rover discovers Mars once had vast lakes suitable for life
NASA scientists have said that Mars may have had vast lakes billions of years ago. NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered geological evidence that suggests that...
Sharp’s solar unit may be sold to Canadian Solar
Recurrent Energy, Sharp Corp.’s US-based solar energy development unit, may be sold to Canadian Solar Inc. The Japanese multinational electronics corporation says it has...
Giraffe population declining at an alarming rate, could face extinction
The Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF) conducted a report revealing that the overall giraffe population has dropped by more than 40 percent over the past...
New Horizons space probe awake and on track to reach Pluto in 2015
NASA’s probe called New Horizons is only six months away from reaching Pluto. No other spaceship in history will have traveled such a distance...
West Antarctica is melting at an alarming rate, says study
The ice sheet in West Antarctica is melting at an extremely alarming rate. According to a recent study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters,...
100bn frames per second 2-D camera developed at Washington University
A 2-D camera that can capture events at the incredible speed of 100 billion frames per second has been developed by a team of...
California drought the driest in 1,200 years, says new study
The 2012-2014 California drought has been the worst in 1,200 years, say scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Minnesota....