Strong indicators Plans are underway to install lightning detector on Mount Cleveland this summer. Researchers at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA, have found that lightning is a good

neanderthal, a species of the Homo genus, disappeared from Earth about 35,000 years ago. Homo sapiens who had the same ancestors as them, continued to live on. The reason behind their sudden

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The draft National Environment Policy marks an advance from the past approaches but has basic flaws that would limit its effectiveness.

Beast Threat Many animals, under threat from humans, have gone locally extinct. A recent report of

Six live coelacanths, a rare species of fish, were recently sighted by divers in St Lucia Marine Protected Area, off the north