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Crowd visited the Minneapolis Convention Center just to get a glimpse of one man, the Dalai Lama.

On Sunday morning, nearly 3,000 people attended the Dalai Lama's appearance to listen to his short talk and for the Tibetan New Year celebrations. Since the March 2014 New Year, it was the first time that the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists visited the Twin Cities.

There had been concerns over the Dalai Lama’s health since he went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester in January. While talking to the crowd, he said that he'd been getting treatment for prostate issues there for a decade and assured everybody that he is healthy and well.

Health officials in Baltimore have formed a group to combat against the threat being posed by Zika virus. The group has been created in line with the virus being declared as a public health emergency across the world by the World Health Organization.

The threat of Zika virus has left many regions in the Americans in medical emergency. According to Dr. Leana Wen, the Health Commissioner, the Zika virus situation is advancing at a fast pace, the creation of the group was revealed by Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to make preparations for the worst possibilities.

Madagascar has dry, deciduous forests where clearance is an ongoing process. It is designated Global 200 ecoregion, one of the world’s most crucial regions for conservation by World Wide Fund for Nature. New research to find the exact reason behind forest loss in Madagascar for around 1,000 years points towards human intervention and activity.

A team of scientists from both UMass Amherst and MIT defies the belief of many theories offered in the past. They state that manmade factors led to the forest disaster instead of natural issues. To come to their conclusion, they studied a pair of stalagmites sourced from a cave in the northwest corner of the island.

A clear picture of NGC 4889, a supergiant elliptical galaxy, was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. It shows that the galaxy contains a super massive black hole, which surprises scientist about its silent character. Scientists believe that there exist billions of galaxies in our observable universe and many of them have super massive black holes at their active centre.

When a black hole comes to its form, it starts absorbing stars and merging with other black holes to become super massive black hole. They are called super massive for their huge size. This new found supper massive black hole is of mass twenty-one billion times the mass of our Sun. it is formed at the center of NGC 4889, which is around 300 million light-years away in the Coma Cluster.

Deadline for the removal of ice fishing shanties has been issued by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The Agency has asked anglers to move remaining shanties on Lake St. Clair as mandatory ice shanty removal dates are approaching.

As per an announcement by the DNR, the temperature is increasing and it is becoming very difficult for the ice to hold shanties, so anglers are requested to remove shanties as soon as possible. The deadline by the agency shows that people have about 24 days to remove ice shanties from the Michigan-Wisconsin boundary waters. The Upper Peninsula counties will have extra half month to remove shanties. All counties in the area must remove shanties by March 31, the DNR announced.

Climate change is going to affect almost every region on our planet and urgent steps are required to deal with it. Over time, some of the places will get hotter, some cloudier, some drier and some wetter. A new map has been developed by using 14 years of data that shows which areas of the earth are going to affect the most due to climate change.

The map featured in the journal Nature has been developed using new system that analyzes satellite data. It represents what researchers call a vegetation sensitivity index (VSI), a method that combines many data sources. The first set of data used for the new map was taken from the enhanced vegetation index.