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Washington, July 4 (ANI): An international team of researchers has determined that species over the years have come and gone at different rates than previously believed.

Paris, July 4 (ANI): Earth observation satellites have provided vital information to relief workers in Myanmar throughout a particularly long crisis response window following the devastating Cyclone Nargis that hit the country on 2 and 3 May 2008.

Washington, July 4 (ANI): Scientists have demonstrated that natural disturbances such as flooding and animal diseases are very important for the diversity of natural areas.

London, July 4 (ANI): Two tourists have captured in their camera what they believe is a dinosaur-like creature the Loch Ness Monster.

Melbourne, July 4 (ANI): The rising production of television sets may worsen global warming because a greenhouse gas used for the purpose is more harmful than coal, warns a leading environmental scientist.

Washington, July 4 (ANI): New findings have indicated that endangered wild orangutan populations are declining more sharply in Sumatra and Borneo than previously estimated.

Washington, July 4 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkley, has determined that rather than suppressing local communities in developing nations, nature reserves attract human settlement.

Washington, July 4 (ANI): A new study by zoologists at the University of Florida suggests that toads in suburban areas are less likely to suffer from reproductive system abnormalities than those in the vicinity of farms.

Washington, July 4 (ANI): Chemical oceanographers have warned that human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean, which will likely require even steeper cuts in carbon emissions than those currently proposed to curb climate change.

Washington, July 4 (ANI): A new study seems to link between elaborately and distinctively designed tattoos on the skin of indigenous Aussies to characters and motifs found on rock art and portable objects.

Washington, July 4 (ANI): Conservationists have blamed the dramatic decline of a least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population from the Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal on poaching gangs.

London, July 4 (ANI): If reports are to be believed, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii is crumbling away due to poor investment and damage caused by tourists.

Washington, July 4 (ANI): A new research into the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, a discovery that overturns a previous theory that hypothesized that the Americans had come from Asia.

London, July 4 (ANI): Satellite navigation systems like in-car and portable GPS receivers are proving to be a boon for crime-fighters, say London's Metropolitan Police.

Athens, July 4 (ANI): Five intact tombs dating to the Roman era have been unearthed in the town of Krinides in Macedonia.

Washington, July 4 (ANI): Using a unique cosmic configuration, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in the extremely strong gravity of a pair of superdense neutron stars.

London, July 4 (ANI): Researchers at a US-based company have invented a microwave ray gun, which can beam sounds directly into people's heads.

Washington, July 4 (ANI): Seeing with the "mind's eye" i.e. mental imagery (imagination), can actually influence the way you see the world, says a new research.

London, July 4 (ANI): Two scientists at Imperial College London say that they have an idea to make a carpet that can make anything swept under it to seem to disappear.