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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Is cancer hiding in your home?
A staggering range of commonly used chemicals from insecticides to plastic additives to some common medications used even in very low quantities are likely to cause cancer. This was the conclusion reached
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Plant inspired solar cells to revolutionise energy storage
A new technology developed by scientists at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) can store solar energy for up to several weeks; an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing
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Looking for the fingerprints of climate changes on today's extreme weather
Sure, summers in the city are typically hot. But this seems a little more intense than most, and something similar happened just last year. That's the question increasingly being asked by communities
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New Zealand scientists voice concern over gagging on climate change
New Zealand scientists said Monday that government funding policies have effectively prevented them from making any serious input into the government's climate change stance. The New Zealand Association
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Paris climate summit: France wants a pre-meet on deal outline
France is also acutely conscious of the fact that the previous such move had backfired and Copenhagen meeting had ended in a failure. Global leaders and heads of states might have to assemble again
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Promise me the monsoon
Why this weird weather? Why have western disturbances—the extra-tropical storms that originate in the Mediterranean and Atlantic seas—been lashing us again and again, with devastating impacts on agriculture?
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Scientists say pope may be the key player on climate change
Scientists weary after years of often vicious opposition by doubters of their climate-change findings see this year as crucial to the planet's future because of a religious document expected from Pope
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ICAR scheme sees farmers take up multi-crop farming
PANAJI: A one-hectare plot of cultivable land in Bhars, Canacona, has been converted into a multi-crop unit with cashew, mango, guava, turmeric and other crops being raised under an integrated farming
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UN climate talk: October bid for climate text after troubled round
BONN: Another round of UN climate talks wrapped up on Thursday after making little headway towards producing a text for a worldwide pact due in just six months' time. After 11 days of wrangling by negotiators,
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Research into feed supplements to reduce methane emitted by cows
Researchers are working on feed supplements that could reduce methane emitted by cows through belching and flatulence, Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has said. It is estimated agriculture is responsible