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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Northern California overdue for big quake, study says
SAN FRANCISCO – Three fault segments running beneath Northern California and its roughly 15 million people are overdue for a major earthquake, including one section that lies near the dams and canals that
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Sea level rise over past century unmatched in 6,000 years, says study
Research finds 20cm rise since start of 20th century, caused by global warming and the melting of polar ice, is unprecedented. The rise in sea levels seen over the past century is unmatched by any period
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Scientists examine the health risks of Hong Kong's notorious 'street canyons'
Researchers from Britain, Canada and Hong Kong are conducting a three-dimensional study into air pollution and health. Photo: Sam Tsang Hong Kong's notorious "street canyons" have become the latest research
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Elephants in captivity are a stressed lot, say experts
MYSORE: A study carried out by the scientists at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Hyderabad has indicated that elephants held in captivity in mutts, zoos and other places are living under
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Rising seas seen causing routine floods in US cities: Study
As sea levels rise, tidal flooding along the US coast is likely to become so common that parts of many communities, including the nation's capital, could become unusable within three decades, according
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2014 Nobel Prize for Physics Awarded to Scientists Who Invented the Blue LED
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics has officially been awarded to Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University in Japan and to Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University in Japan and to Shuji Nakamura of the University of California.
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Fungus Can Increase Flower, Seed and Fruit Production in Plants: New Method for Agriculture
As the world population grows, it's important to continue to develop methods to increase crop yield in order to feed the burgeoning masses. Now, one scientist has developed a method to enhance crop yield
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Trio share Medicine Nobel for discovering brain’s ‘inner GPS’
British-American resea-rcher John O’Keefe won the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday with a Norwegian couple, May-Britt and Edvard Moser, for discovering an “inner GPS” that helps the brain navigate. They
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Tibetan plateau becomes focus of intense climate study
The Tibetan plateau has become the focus of intense meteorological study in a never-before attempt to understand its effect on climate locally as well as globally, notes Nature News. This development
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Nobel Prize for the brain's GPS discovery
The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the brain's "GPS system". UK-based researcher Prof John O'Keefe as well as May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser