Earth

Forests are key in stabilizing the earth’s climate – they hold nearly half of carbon on the land and offset one-third of human carbon emissions….
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Glaciers are the largest reservoirs of fresh water on Earth. Many glaciers store water as ice by snowfall during the colder seasons and then release…
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For the past decades, the trend of reduction of extent and thickness of ice cover in the Arctic has been noticed. While there are numerous…
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The Karakoram-Himalaya mountain ranges, spread across Pakistan, India, China, Bhutan, and Nepal, are a home for thousands of glaciers. Glaciers are the natural reservoirs of freshwater…
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The Arctic Ocean is undergoing a series of changes in sea ice, whose concentration and thickness, as well as multiyear ice volume, has decreased significantly….
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Wild ungulates such as deer, moose, goats, and boar are key drivers of forest ecosystems, as they can exert strong top-down control on forest structure…
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In “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, published in 1798, Thomas Malthus put forward his famous population trap concept, postulating the end of human…
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A notable question facing business corporations seeking to operate transnationally is that of how to cope with variances in how their operations may be regulated….
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The study of bone microanatomy provides complementary knowledge which is unavailable in most of the morphological analysis of fossil vertebrates. New information about growth, metabolic…
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As I explained in my previous article on the environmental impact of the increasing demand for cobalt (Co), mineral resources have been exploited in the Democratic Republic…
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Flowering is an imperative and exceptionally complex developmental segment of a plant’s life cycle. Flowers are a plant’s reproductive organs, producing male and female gametes which…
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