To save the planet, first save elephants
Wiping out all of Africa’s elephants could accelerate Earth’s climate crisis by allowing 7% more damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But conserving forest elephants may reverse
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Scientists are being anti-development: EPTRI
HYDERABAD: The Environment Protection and Training Research Institute (EPTRI) took on the CSIR Scientists Service Forum accusing it of being `antidevelopment' in its stance on the Hyderabad Pharma City
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Sooty birds' reveal hidden US air pollution
Soot trapped in the feathers of songbirds over the past 100 years is causing scientists to revise their records of air pollution. US researchers measured the black carbon found on 1,300 larks, woodpeckers
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Scientists develop a special material which disinfects itself
A new self-disinfecting device has been developed by scientists in order to combat dangerous hospital-acquired infections. According to the National Institute for Care and Excellence, 300,000 people
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Nobel prize awarded for imaging molecules
The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for improving images made of biological molecules. Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson will share the nine million
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Scientist says land degradation fuels food insecurity in Eastern Africa
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Land degradation is to blame for food insecurity in Eastern Africa region, a Kenyan scientist said on Friday. Eunice Wangui, a senior Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technician
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The Mail's censure shows which media outlets are biased on climate change
Right-wing media outlets like Breitbart, Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh echoed the Mail’s “significantly misleading” and now censured climate story Back in February, the conservative UK tabloid Mail on
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Why the environment matters
Globally, it is clear that climate change is happening and has made economies and people insecure Over two decades ago the Supreme Court directed the government to make the subject of the environment
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Assumed safety of widespread pesticide use is false, says top government scientist
The assumption by regulators around the world that it is safe to use pesticides at industrial scales across landscapes is false, according to a chief scientific adviser to the UK government. The lack
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Asia's glaciers face massive melt from global warming
Scientists say one-third of the ice stored in Asia's glaciers will be lost by the end of the century even if the world manages to meet its ambitious goal of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius,
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CRISPR breakthrough: In a first, gene-editing tech used to dramatically change colour of flower
The team was successfully able to grow 75% of the treated plant with white, instead of violet, petalsadventtr/iStock For the first time ever, scientists have used the CRISPR gene-editing technology