Consequences Of Polar ice Melting & Rising Sea levels

by : Abdul Azeem Khan
ABSTRACT
A big enough rise of global temperatures would eventually melt the world’s glaciers and ice caps, and indeed a retreat of mountain glaciers since the 19th century was apparent in some regions. That would release enough water to raise the sea level a bit. Worse, beginning in the 1960s, several glacier [...]

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Anousheh Ansari Honored with Portraits

The first female private space explorer, Anousheh Ansari, lit up a New York City Art Studio with her  smiles, all 17 of them, earlier today.
Famed pop artist, Peter Max presented the cheery Ansari with 16 portraits of the entrepreneur, in all of which she is smiling.
“Everyone told me you have a permanent smile tattooed on [...]

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Virgin boss Plans Commercial space tourist flights

 
Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has signed a £14m agreement which will see his company take passengers  into space. The British entrepreneur is having five “spaceliners” built in the US by the team behind the SpaceShipOne vehicle.
The California-based rocket plane became the first privately developed carrier to go above 100km in June.
Sir Richard says [...]

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Sea Food faces Collapse By 2048

 
Clambakes, crabcakes, swordfish steaks and even humble fish sticks could be little more than a fond  memory in a few  decades.
If current trends of overfishing and pollution continue, the populations of just about all seafood face collapse by 2048, a team of ecologists and economists warns in a report in Friday’s issue of the journal [...]

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