An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of the domestic horse Equus caballus, revealing a genome structure with remarkable similarities to humans and more than one million genetic differences across a variety of horse breeds .

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Latin American governments are considering a bloc response to the Japanese whaling fleet's departure for Antarctica, in a new season of what it claims is "hunting for scientific purposes" and which threatens to kill 1,000 whales in the protected Southern

The study, published in the current issue of Nature, is the first to quantify the perceived trend that oceans are becoming less efficient carbon sinks

Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate whose wholly-owned subsidiary Tetley makes the world famous Tetley Teas, has taken 6500 people hostage through hunger, IUF.org said.The workers have been locked out and denied wages for all but two days' work

A new report out by World Wildlife Fund and insurer Allianz warns that sea levels could rise along the U.S. coast a whopping 26 inches by 2050 as the world warms. That would place assets worth $7.4 trillion at risk along the US coast.

The Arctic is melting, putting polar bears at the brink of extinction. Every year, more and more bears are starving and drowning as they are forced to swim farther and farther to reach solid ice. Two-thirds of all polar bears -- including all bears in Ala

Indian children as young as six work 12-hour days to make colorful latex balloons for just pennies a day. The terrible irony that party balloons for Western children's celebrations are being made by kids the same age under abusive and exploitative envir..

They discovered that the migration over short as well as long distances of various kinds of bats evolved independently within the family.

Biologists believe find is a wolffish, a species never seen in region