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What might be exciting to one can seem terrifying to another—think public speaking, skydiving, and rock climbing. However, it's safe to assume that Lima, the 12-year-old zebra who bolted from Ringling trainers and ran amok for 40 minutes in Atlanta yesterday, was terrified—not merely, as a Ringling spokesperson said, "excited." Police eventually cornered the frightened animal on the on-ramp of a busy interstate, but not before he suffered cuts on his hooves, as Ringling's spokesperson noted.
Many of us would love to swim with dolphins but it seems the aquatic mammals don't return the sentiment.
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees.
According to the AP Story, Mike Tyson has gone vegan and credits feeling really good to that.
If you had asked me last week to name my favorite Richard Gere moment, I would have taken a long pause before finally deciding on that scene in the 1980s movie American Gigolo when he shimmied in his boxers as he paired his ties to shirts. What can I say? I've always appreciated a man who cares about his appearance.
Rapid climate changes are set to redistribute the already shrinking ozone layer, exposing earth's southern parts up to 20 percent more ultraviolet radiation, warns a Canadian study.
Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true.
Unless humans act now, seafood may disappear by 2048, concludes the lead author of a new study that paints a grim picture for ocean and human health.
Water scarcity as a result of climate change will create far-reaching global security concerns, Nobel laureate and chairman of the 'Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change' Rajendra K Pachauri has warned.
"At one level the world's water is like the world's wealth. Globally, there is more than enough to go round. The problem is that some countries get a lot more than others," said Pachauri, co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
"At one level the world's water is like the world's wealth. Globally, there is more than enough to go round. The problem is that some countries get a lot more than others," said Pachauri, co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Karnataka has been bearing the brunt of extremes — drought and floods. Though the loss has become an annual phenomenon in the past decade, the ferocity and magnitude of this year’s devastation are unprecedented.
Summer temperatures for the globe's ocean surface ranked as the warmest on record, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Climatic Data Center.
Overall, when the Earth's land areas and oceans are included together, the three-month June-August period measured as the third-warmest summer on record. Global climate records go back to 1880.
Overall, when the Earth's land areas and oceans are included together, the three-month June-August period measured as the third-warmest summer on record. Global climate records go back to 1880.
