ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATEThe temperature of the populous city Shanghai reached 40.9 degrees centigrade on Friday, and a strong heat wave has engulfed majority areas of China.
Latest archaeological excavation in Northern Australia has discovered that human being has lived there 65 thousand years ago. This baffled scientists as it showed the Aboriginal society in Australia was far older than previously estimated.
The collapse of a portion of the Larsen C ice shelf, the size of the State of Delaware is alarming. It is an effect of the rising temperatures in the region. Scientists are in the process of quantifying the effects and rise in sea level of the fallen mass carrying water twice the volume of Lake Erie in North America.
Archaeologists unearthed hundreds of skulls that belong to men, women, and children in Templo Mayor found in Mexico. They are believed among those who are sacrificed and eaten.
Prominent scientists have opined in an open letter that severe effects of climate change will take hold and the world has three years to obtain precautions to avoid the devastation.
An extinct animal from South America, whose fossils have confounded scientists for over 170 years, are now thought to be relatives of horses, thanks to mDNA analysis.