ACTION MAN Brits would want Arnold Schwarzenegger to lead Earth in the event of an alien invasion, poll reveals.

BRITS would want Arnie to be in charge if the UK was ever invaded by aliens, a survey has found. The Terminator actor and ex-governor of California topped the survey of 2,000 British adults which revealed the top 20 celebrities and public figures they believe would be best s…

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French nuclear tests contaminated 110,000 in Pacific.

France concealed the true impact of its nuclear tests in the Pacific from the 1960s to the 1990s, a study has said. Researchers used declassified French military documents, calculations and testimonies to reconstruct the impact of a number of the tests. They estimated that ar…

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The Himalayan hazards nobody is monitoring.

Retreating glaciers in the Himalayas are not only dangerously filling up glacial lakes but they are also causing other hazards that are not being monitored, scientists have warned. The recent flash flood disaster in India's Uttarakhand state, they say, is the latest exam…

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Australia building world's first platypus sanctuary.

Australian conservationists on Wednesday (March 03) unveiled plans to build the world's first refuge for the platypus, to promote breeding and rehabilitation as the duck-billed mammal faces extinction due to climate change. The Taronga Conservation Society Australia and …

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World Wildlife Day - 03 March.

World Wildlife Day on March 3rd annually dedicates a celebration to all life on our planet. The yearly event is regarded as the most important, raising awareness about threatened and endangered plants and animals. As a planet, we currently face the issue of overexploiting o…

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to receive global energy and environment leadership award.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will receive the CERAWeek global energy and environment leadership award during an annual international energy conference next week. The prime minister will also deliver the keynote address at the CERAWeek Conference-2021, which will be held vir…

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World Renouned Naturalist Sir David Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to United Nations.

Climate change could, within a lifetime, destroy "entire cities and societies", Sir David Attenborough has told the UN Security Council. "I don't envy the responsibility that this places on all of you," the naturalist said. Read Full News

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UN Climate Change Conference 2021.

The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 01 – 12 November 2021. The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The…

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Bengaluru had third worst air pollution among Indian cities in 2020.

Bengaluru emerged as the third worst city in India to be affected by air pollution in 2020 with 12,000 estimated deaths, according to a Greenpeace Southeast Asia analysis.  Delhi fared worst with 54,000 such estimated deaths followed by Mumbai at 25,000 deaths.  Greenpeace sa…

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Sri Lanka saves world's only known wild specimen of a species of tree from expressway project.

Sri Lankan authorities Wednesday 17 Feb 2021 agreed to save the world's only known wild specimen of a species of tree that was due to be chopped to clear the way for a four-lane expressway. The Sri Lanka Legume (Crudia zeylanica) -- a flowering tree from the legume famil…

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Wildlife Photographer Captures ‘Never Before Seen’ Yellow Penguin.

A wildlife photographer has shared a once-in-a-lifetime photo of what he believes is a “never before seen” yellow penguin. Belgian landscape and wildlife photographer Yves Adams was leading a two-month photo exhibition in the South Atlantic in December 2019 when the group ma…

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Robert Irwin wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year - 2021.

Robert Irwin has won the coveted Wildlife Photographer of The Year People's Choice Award for his incredible photo of Australia's bushfires. The 17-year-old shared the exciting news, and noted that his image was a reminder of the human impact on the nature.  His photog…

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China to launch public platform to track, crack down on polluters.

China will set up a new information platform to allow the public to track the emissions of polluting enterprises and help authorities prosecute those that break the rules or try to “evade supervision”, the environment ministry said. A total of 2.36 million companies, industr…

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New species of chameleon is discovered in Madagascar.

New species of chameleon where the males have unusually large genitals for sex with bigger females is discovered. A new miniature species of chameleon where the male is much smaller but has unusually large genitals in order to have sex with the much larger female has been di…

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Rare Snowy Owl Spotted in New York’s Central Park.

Rare Snowy Owl Spotted in New York’s Central Park for First Time in 130 Years. A snowy owl was spotted in New York City's Central Park  for the first time in 130 years, The New York Times reported. Snowy owls, found in the high Arctic tundra, are known to venture south du…

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Global Climate Risk Index 2021.

The Global Climate Risk Index 2021 published by the Bonn-based environmental think tank Germanwatch. The Global Climate Risk Index 2021 analyses to what extent countries and regions have been affected by impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc…

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Study suggests earth is losing ice faster than in Mid-1990s.

New research suggests Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the 1990s. An estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the middle of the 1990s. The yearly melt rate is now about 57 percent faster than…

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Dead whale in the Mediterranean probably 'one of the largest' ever found.

The carcass of an enormous finback whale (Balaenoptera physalus) was discovered near the Italian port of Sorrento earlier this week, the Italian Coast Guard said in a Facebook post. Officials discovered the carcass on Sunday (Jan. 17), before towing it to the nearby port at …

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Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano erupted.

Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, erupted Wednesday 27 January 2021, emitting a river of lava onto the mountain below and gas clouds into the sky. The eruption set off the volcano's longest lava flow since the danger level for Merapi was raised in Novemb…

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Highest volcano on Indonesia’s Java island Semeru has erupted.

The highest volcano (3676m) on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java, spewed hot clouds as far away as 4.5km today (18th December). There were no immediate evacuations, but the National Disaster Mitigation Agency warned people who live in the villages on the slop…

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