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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Now, a climate model for Sunderbans
Will Sunderbans, the world's largest tiger habitat, survive a century later? Will millions living in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin be forced to migrate? Will water that is now available in abundance
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Animal activists oppose Gorakhpur nuclear project
Demand redressal of wildlife conservation issue Animal rights activists belonging to the Bishnoi community are up in arms against the government’s proposal to lay the foundation stone of the proposed nuclear power project at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad before implementing any conservation plan for hundreds of wildlife, particularly blackbucks living in the area.
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Global temperatures to rise 4 degrees by 2100
MELBOURNE: Global average temperatures will rise at least 4 degrees celsius by 2100 and potentially more than 8 degrees by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced, a new research has warned. Scientists found global climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide than most previous estimates
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Climate change not influenced by variations in heat from sun
Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a scientific study has indicated. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh carried out the study using records of past temperatures constructed with data from tree rings and other historical sources. They compared this data record with computer-based models of past climate, featuring both significant and minor changes in the Sun.
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Second phase of tiger census to have camera-trapping
The second phase of the tiger enumeration exercise will commence in the first week of January and entail camera-trapping of tigers and leopards in Bandipur. The first phase of the census concluded on Monday with the volunteers dispersing after six days of data collection pertaining to carnivores, herbivores, and the surrounding vegetations at Bandipur, Nagarahole, BRT Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhadra, Anshi-Dandeli, and other reserve forests.
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Smog, haze to persist in city: Experts
The smog and haze that set in Delhi on Monday will continue for the next three days, Pune-based scientists with the System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) have said. Dr Gufran Beig, chief
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City scientists discover frog species
Pune: A new frog species has been discovered in the biodiversity-rich Western Ghats, by scientists of the city-based MES Abasaheb Garware College and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
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This gas can impact global warming more than CO2
Toronto: Scientists have discovered a long-lived manmade greenhouse gas that appears to have the highest global-warming impact of any compound to date. The chemical — perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA) — is the most radiatively efficient chemical found to date, breaking all other chemical records for its potential to impact climate, said researchers from University of Toronto.
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Nobel laureate bats for genetically-modified crops
Scientists and others, who are in favour of genetically-modified (GM) food crops, have got support from an unexpected quarter — a Nobel laureate. Richard J. Roberts, who won the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1993, on Monday made a forceful case for promoting research on GM food crops and their use for public consumption, saying they were needed to at least take care of vitamin and other deficiencies in the developing world.
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Researchers develop technique to reduce cost of solar power
Researchers here have claimed to have developed a simple and economical way of processing to manufacture graphene-based solar cell, whose use may reduce the cost of producing solar power considerably.