As per a landmark UN report, a dire picture of the catastrophic consequences the world will face if immediate action is not taken to limit the global warming to 1.5°C, warning that at 2°C, the world could see 10 cm more global sea level rise, loss of all coral-reefs and worsening food shortages.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), far-reaching and unprecedented changes, such as ditching coal for electricity to slash carbon emissions are required to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Sep 29, 2018
New Species of lizards in Western Ghats
A team from Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, Bangalore has identified Montane forest lizard and Spiny-headed forest lizard during a revision of taxonomy of the lesser known agamid.
The discovery proves that Western Ghats is indeed a biodiversity hotspot.
The two reptiles had been wrongly identified under the genus Calotes (similar to the common garden lizards) for more than 150 years.
Sep 28, 2018
South Africa's New Jurassic Giant
A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa's Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tonnes and stood about four meters high at the hips. Ledumahadi mafube was the largest land animal alive on Earth when it lived, nearly 200 million years ago. It was roughly double the size of a large African elephant.
Sep 18, 2018
Ancient Sandstone Sphinx Discovered
Egyptian archaeologists draining water from a temple in the southern city of Aswan have uncovered a sandstone sphinx likely dating to the Ptolemaic era.
The sphinx, a mythical being with the head of a human and the body of a lion, was discovered at the Kom Ombo temple.
Ptolemaic rule spanned about three centuries until the Roman conquest in 30 BC.
Sep 16, 2018
World's Oldest Brewery
Researchers have found the world's oldest brewery, with residue of 13,000-year-old beer, in a prehistoric cave near Haifa in Israel.
The discovery was made while they were studying a burial site for semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers.
Brewing beer was thought to go back 5,000 years, but the latest discovery may turn beer history on its head.
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