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Global warming could gradually starve parts of the tropical oceans of oxygen, damaging fisheries and coastal economies, a study showed on Thursday. Areas of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with low amounts of dissolved oxygen have expanded in the past 50 years, apparently in line with rising temperatures, according to the scientists based in Germany and the United States.

Scientists have discovered a legless lizard, a toad and a dwarf woodpecker among 14 species believed to be new to science in central Brazil, a wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday. A four-week expedition to the Cerrado region, a wooded savannah under threat from the expansion of farming, found eight apparently unknown types of fish, three reptiles, one amphibian, a mammal and a bird, Conservation International said.

India's electric car, the Reva, is all charged up to drive into the big league of the auto industry I turn the key in the ignition and

Norway will give Tanzania $100 million over five years to cut deforestation in the east African country and try to reduce carbon emissions blamed for climate change, according to a deal signed on Monday. Norway, the world's number five oil exporter, plans to make its economy "carbon Neutral" by 2030, partly by buying emissions quotas abroad to offset its own greenhouse gas production.

Norway Ambassador Ingadjorg Spotroing yesterday visited different development projects under RDRS (Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service) funded by Norway government in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur. He visited different development projects in rural areas of the upazila including Adibashi Mohila Proshikshan Kendra, Kishori Kendra, Shishu Shiksha Kendra, Sujalpur Mohila Dal etc.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on Norway's island of Spitsbergen, formally opened on February 26 to receive seed samples of food plants from across the world. Norwegian prime minister Jens

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Last year, as United Nations scientists were warning of the perils of man-made climate change, this small country of fjords and factories reacted with an extraordinary pledge: by 2050 Norway would be

This image of a minke whale and a calf being dragged on to a Japanese whaling ship is just one of a sequence showing the mammals being chased and slaughtered in the Antarctic Ocean, say Australian