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A new Guinness World Record for planting trees has been set by Ecuador over the weekend. Tens of thousands of citizens paid attention to the government’s call to plant more than 640,000 trees in a single day in almost 2,000 hectares across the country.

In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to guarantee the rights of nature in the constitution. Efforts Socio Bosque conservation program and the National Reforestation Plan have been put into action though legislation.

The 2008 constitution recognizes the right of the population to live in ecologically balanced and healthy environments.

One provides incentives for citizens to not cut down trees while the other seeks to reforest 1 million hectares over a 20-year period.

A novel research has unveiled that ocean microbes have a major impact on atmosphere. The finding could bring changes in how climate models are developed and interpreted, bringing changes in entire concept of climate change.

The novel study has also unveiled that cool mist also plays an important role in the environment. Not only the cool, but warm mist also alters how sunlight is reflected and bounces off from water surface, an important part of cloud formation.

Researchers from the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CAICE) said that when microorganisms decay, bacteria break them and in this process, chemicals and proteins are released with sugar and lipids.

The International Space Station (ISS) is moving around its orbit at 17,000 mph. It has to care for a lot of factors to avoid any collision as space debris can cause it a lot of damage, leading to major consequences.

The ISS often has to change its course in order to ensure that it does not encounter space debris left from previous missions. As per NASA, there is around 3,000 tons of space debris in low-earth orbit. Then, there is another belt of space debris above earth in geo-synchronous orbit.

A group of Japanese researchers have come up with a solution to deal with the menace. The researchers have recommended the use of laser to blast the debris before it causes any sort of damage to the ISS.

People who were living in the Basin will not be able to easily forget May 18, 1980, when Mount St. Helens erupted. On that day, the eruption took place around 8.30 am in which more than 200 square miles of land was devastated.

The eruption is considered to be the deadliest and most devastating volcanic eruption in the history of America. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this eruption that took place 35 years back will never be erased from their memory.

In the eruption, many people lost their lives and total cost estimates were more than $1 billion. There are a number of books, television shows, movie, newspaper articles, research papers and magazine articles on this event.

In a rather interesting study, published in Live Science magazine on May 18, a scientist established a possible link between the size of an organism and its population. He noted that animals have a relation between their size and their number, that is, the smaller the species is, the more individuals of that species tend to exist.

Fergus Simpson, a cosmologist from the University of Barcelona, presented his results wherein he claimed that if at all Aliens exist, they would weigh about 660 lbs or 300 kgs. He also asserted that there, in fact, did exist an extraterrestrial planet that is habitable and houses as many as 50 million aliens.

A new study has revealed that a deadly ball of ice from space wiped out a highly advanced civilization flourished in Antarctica about 13000 years ago.

The proof to support this claim was found by Graham Hancock, the author of a controversial 1995 book titled ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’. However, academics, and a BBC Horizon program aimed to demolish his theory despite three million copies of his books were sold.

Now, Hancock is set to publish a 500-page sequel titled ‘Magicians of the Gods,’ 20 years later, in which has a strong evidence to prove his critics wrong. The book contains a series of geophysics and geological papers.