Science and Technology is ever advancing. Today some European scientists launched a satellite called “Smos Spacecraft”, which will make flood prediction easier by tracking water flows around the Earth. The satellite will also provide better weather forecasts and estimate the impact of climate change including drought. The satellite was lifted into space from the Plesetsk [...]

New Scientist conducted a geo-spatial analysis very intriguing, which identified the most remote areas (for a road, railway or sea) from urban centers. The model combines some information about the terrain and access to roads, trains and rivers. There were also considered factors such as altitude, slope and barriers such as border crossings. After done [...]

The world’s few remaining billionaires all over the globe are turning into eco-barons. The Sunday Times had published first Green List of top 100 rich who are investing in some green technology or the other.  Environment is taking precedence in business too. Economics is turning into Geonomics.
Yes, world wealth has gone down with recession and [...]

The earth has a mysterious and ‘unknown cleaning agent that scrubs away toxic air pollution.’ ‘Molecules called hydroxyl radicals naturally clean trace amounts of pollution from the air, but the process spews out toxic ozone. In June 2009 researchers announced that a mysterious substance is at work in China’s Pearl River Delta that cleans the [...]

A collaborative effort between the U.S. space agency NASA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, known as METI, has produced the most complete topographic map of Earth, covering 99 percent of the planet’s surface.
The new map was created from 1.3 million individual stereo-pair images taken from NASA’s Terra spacecraft. Thanks to the cutting-edge [...]

In a new study featured in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers aver that “[T]he Earth will be identifiable as an inhabited planet for nearly half the total lifetime of the Sun, an important point to consider in the search for life on extrasolar planets.”
The new study suggests that ‘the [...]

The International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement’s new international campaign “Our World Your Move” is an innovative campaign highlighting all the burning problems of the world and calling for participatory action to bring about change.
The campaign developed by Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland is highly creative. The website, ourworld-yourmove.org depicts earth as a puzzle and people [...]

Forest fires that cause deforestation and habitat loss are also responsible for 20% of carbon dioxide emissions. It is a phenomenon that feeds global warming. Fire and climate are a tandem that goes back at least 400 million years, since plants began to colonize the Earth.
It used to be that forest fires resulted from natural [...]

From April 14 to April 21, NASA conducts an online poll where people can vote for the agency’s greatest achievement. NASA opened a section on its website to give everyone on the planet a chance to decide and vote on the agency’s most monumental contribution in the last 50 years. This is in line with [...]

From the Hubble telescope’s images of planetary nebulae comes the idea of how the sun will eventually look when it expires five billion years hence. Once it has exhausted its reserves of hydrogen that feeds a continuous process of nuclear fusion, the sun will become just like any of the nebulae the most beautiful of [...]