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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Keeping climate’s time capsule intact
Imagine you are Sherlock Holmes bent on solving a mystery but the evidence is starting to crumble and eventually you will be left with worthless dust. This is the worry which haunts ice scientists delving
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Thirty new bean varieties bred to beat baking climate
Scientists have bred 30 new varieties of "heat-beating" beans designed to provide protein for the world's poor in the face of global warming, researchers announced on Wednesday. Described as "meat of
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Scientists Create Gut Molecules That Can Combat Obesity?
Obesity affects one in three Americans, and strongly increases the risk for developing several diseases and conditions, including heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, as well as certain types of
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Amazon rainforest and Great Barrier Reef need better care, say scientists
Research published in journal Science shows local protection of three world heritage sites is too weak and leaves them at risk of ‘unfolding diaster’ The world’s most prized ecosystems, such as the
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New way to regenerate heart tissue found
In a discovery that may pave the way for regeneration of damaged heart tissue, scientists have successfully stimulated the mouse heart to grow new cells. Researchers have shown that a subset of RNA molecules,
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Russian scientists say climate change to blame for mysterious Siberia craters
Russian scientists have now discovered seven giant craters in remote Siberia, a geologist told AFP on Thursday, adding that the mysterious phenomenon was believed to be linked to climate change. The
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Swine flu virus undergoes deadly mutations: Study
Swine flu has been claiming one life a day on an average in the city for the past one month. A 55-year-old woman from Thakurli was the latest in line to fall prey to the deadly H1N1 virus taking the toll
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Japan space scientists make wireless energy breakthrough
Japanese scientists have succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, in a key step that could one day make solar power generation in space a possibility, an official said Thursday. Researchers used
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Florida scientist told to cut words 'climate change' from study on climate change
By late January of this year, Elizabeth Radke figured she was pretty much done with Florida. She had already graduated from the University of Florida, where she had gotten her PhD in epidemiology. She
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Climate change helped trigger Syrian uprising
Drawing one of the strongest links yet between global warming and human conflict, researchers said on Monday that an extreme drought in Syria between 2006 and 2009 was most likely due to climate change,