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World leaders and policymakers are in Paris to discuss climate change. They are making plans how to tackle global warming in near future. But, South African-born Canadian-American business magnate Elon Musk thinks youth has the power to prevent global warming. He said only carbon tax can help in accelerating the shift from carbon-producing fossil fuels to sustainable energy.

During a conference at the Sorbonne in Paris, SpaceX CEO said young people have the power to make a change. Musk said carbon tax should not be according to revenue. It should be revenue neutral, he added. If government acts as Musk wants, then it will receive the same amount of money. According to Musk, taxes would be weighted heavily on carbon.

A newly released report of Oxfam showed the richest one-tenth in the world could be blamed for 50% of all carbon emissions. The lifestyle choices of the world’s 10% richest population produce about 11 times higher CO2 than poor people around the globe, the report said.

The poorest half of the world, which includes about 3.5 billion individuals, produces just 10% of all carbon dioxide emissions. But still, they are mostly affected by the climate change. They are experiencing deadly natural disasters like drought and flooding, according to the report.

Peaches are widely popular, but the juicy fruit has been in China before the arrival of modern humans in the region. A new research revealed that before ancient humans reached modern-day China, the fruit was already there.

Fossilized peach pits unearthed in southwest China have given hints that peaches may have grown in the East Asian country for millions of years, as per the research published in the journal Scientific Reports.

The US space agency NASA has said SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 rocket will attempt to land on solid ground at Cape Canaveral. If it tastes success, it will be first successful landing and recovery of the aerospace company’s flagship rocket, as per NASA officials.

It is not the first time when SpaceX will try to land a rocket on earth. Before it, the company has tried to land its terrestrial rockets at sea, but both the times, the experiments failed. Now, the company has decided to land the first stage booster back on solid ground.

It has been known to all that climate change is taking place and it is also causing an irreversible affect on the environment across the world. Recently a team of researchers has found that people living in low-lying areas in Pacific island have started migrating because of the effects of climate change.

The study showed that one in 10 people living in three Pacific nations has migrated in the past decades after climate change led to some irreversible changes in the area around them.

It was found that global warming in those areas led to sea level rise, eroding the land around their homes and destroyed crops and groundwater.

A team of archaeologists recently discovered what they call the earliest depictions of a hunter-gatherer camp ever discovered. They said the primitive engravings they found are about 13, 800 year old.

According to the team, newfound etchings were discovered near the Molí del Salt rock shelter in northeastern Spain. The findings indicate that ancient people might have lived in dwellings that are very much similar to those of modern-day hunter-gatherers.

Researchers hope their findings could help shed some light on the lifestyle of the ancient people. It has been known that from about 15,000 to 9,000 year ago, ancient nomadic people kept returning to the Molí del Salt rock shelter.