South Korea satellite launch,delayed due to malfunctioning

A planned satellite launch of South Korea’s space program was postponed. The satellite suffered a setback due to malfunctioning firefighting equipment. The fire retardant suddenly sprayed from three nozzles which is set up near the launch pad to extinguish any blaze according to a spokesman at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Pyun Kyung-bum. [...]

Our Earth is Becoming Hotter!

For the last ten years or a more, our dear planet Earth is continuously on heat. This means that temperatures are continuously rising and the top layer of the oceans is extremely heated up. The warming of the Earth or ‘Global Warming’ as it is normally called is a very serious issue on our hands. [...]

Osama Bin Laden threatens retaliation over 9/11 trial

A message said to be from Osama Bin Laden threatens to kill Americans if the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks is executed by the US. Al-Jazeera, an Arabic  news channel broadcast an audiotape reportedly from the al-Qaeda leader talking about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspects. The tape said that if the US made [...]

Disputed island in Bay of Bengal disappears

With the rise of sea levels, a disputed island in the Bay of Bengal by India and Bengal for almost 30 years has been lost into the sea. The tiny rock island called New Moore Island, lying in the Sunder bans, has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. The disappearance [...]

Low oxygen levels in oceans is an issue of concern: scientists

Scientists have said that the decrease of oxygen in the oceans, especially the waters surrounding the United States’ Pacific Northwest coast, may be another change brought by the global climatic changes being felt worldwide. The issue of concern arises as piles of Dungeness crab carcasses were found in some areas off the Washington state and [...]

Global Warming: As a Dangerous Problem Today

Global Warming is the increase of the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere or an overall increase in the world temperature which may be caused by additional heat being trapped by greenhouse gases. Is also defined as the progressive gradual rise of the earth’s surface temperature thought to be caused by the greenhouse effect and [...]

China sets out study on obtaining benefits from Arctic ice melting

A Stockholm research institute said on Monday that China has started exploring ways to gain economic and strategic benefits from the ice melting at the Arctic due to global warming. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) further said that the Chinese officials were being cautious in expressing interest in the region for fear of causing alarm [...]

British lawmakers harshly cross-examined climate connoisseurs

LONDON – Monday, British parliament callously grilled the Academics at a British climate research center. This is due to lofty and notorious controversy about the science of global warming. The scientists secured rationales of their works eliminating the accusation that they stage-managed the statistics form the research upshot. University of East Anglia’s former researcher’s prestigious [...]

Global warming continues even after cold spells: Scientists

The increase of global warming continues despite the deep freeze in Europe and blizzards in the United States, said scientists on Thursday. The bitter cold, with more intense winter weather forecast for March in parts of the United States, have led some to question if global warming has stalled. Understanding the overall trend is crucial [...]

Study says Global Warming will bring stronger hurricanes

Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there’s not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun. Since just before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005, [...]

Errors found on UN’s climate report on glaciers

Five errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world’s most authoritative report on global warming and glaciers. This forced the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful. The errors were found in a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. [...]

World leaders call again on global warming

The world leaders made a call for clean energy commitments and raised a renewed alarm on global warming on Monday. They urged international action to increase the use of clean energy at a four-day forum that opened in the oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi. “If we don’t act now, our coral reefs and rainforests will [...]

UN welcomes climate summit

COPENHAGEN: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed a climate deal in Copenhagen, terming it an “essential beginning”. Speaking after the world leader adopted a motion recognizing the agreement, which the US reached with key nations including China and Brazil, Mr Ban, however, stressed that the agreement must be made legally binding next year. The [...]

‘Meaningful deal’ reached at climate summit

COPENHAGEN: The US, China, India and South Africa have reached a “meaningful agreement” in a “historic first step forward” on climate change action at the Copenhagen summit, says a senior US official. “No country is entirely satisfied with each element but this is a meaningful and historic step forward and a foundation from which to [...]

Last-ditch effort to salvage climate talks

COPENHAGEN: World leaders are in last-ditch efforts to strike a deal on carbon emission cuts as the climate summit in Copenhagen ends on Friday. The world leaders were trying to save the talks from complete collapse, with no agreement even on a watered-down “Copenhagen Accord”, which fell far short of the decisive action they had [...]

The human effect of global warming

The quest for a different planet good enough to be inhabited by the human race will fast take the shape of a real mission if conditions here on Earth continue to change the way they are  doing at the moment and the way they are predicted to in the future. While ‘change is the only [...]