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 discover wonder rice gene
Scientists have discovered a wonder rice gene that could dramatically increase yields of one of the world’s most important food crops, the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute (Irri)
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Disease hits standing Bt cotton crop
The Bt cotton crop standing on 13,000 hectares of land at several villages of Perambalur district has been affected by three distinct diseases, causing anxiety among farmers. A team of scientists from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tiruchi, along with officials of the Agriculture Department inspected the cotton fields in various villages on Monday and evolved a strategy for saving the standing crop.
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Solar energy from Moon to power Earth?
Japanese Firm Proposes To Supply 13,000 Terawatts Of Electricity From Lunar Belt Tokyo: A Japanese firm has proposed an out-of-this-world solution to our planet’s power woes — building a solar panel array around the Moon’s equator and sending the electricity it collects back to Earth. The project called LUNA RING is being developed by construction firm Shimizu Corporation.
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Govt yet to initiate steps for safe handling of waste
The state government is yet to initiate steps for the safe handling of waste generated from hospitals, medical health institutions, colleges and university laboratories. The indiscriminate disposal of waste generated from government medical institutions in the district has become a major health hazard and risk to human population.
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New IITM climate model to increase forecast accuracy
Pune: The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), one of the premier research institutes under the ministry of earth sciences (MoES), has developed a new climate model of its own, which aims at
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Scientists write to PM against open field trials of GM crops
Hundreds of scientists have raised serious concerns about “open air field trials (outside glasshouse)” of genetically modified (GM) crops in India by writing a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on
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Quick tsunami sensors tested in Mediterranean
A new alert system could improve tsunami warnings in the Mediterranean, but most countries bordering the sea still lack evacuation plans, scientists have said ahead of a meeting of 20 countries in Italy
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Awareness campaign at IITF on earthquakes
Delhi has experienced a series of low-intensity earthquakes in the recent past. And with a majority of those living in the city unaware of the steps to be followed when a disaster strikes, the National
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Exposed: The myth of the global warming 'pause'
Scientists can now explain the "pause" in global warming that sceptics have used to bolster their arguments. Sceptics had claimed we have nothing to fear from climate change because it has stopped being
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Nasa orbiter to unlock secrets of Mars atmosphere
Cape Canaveral: Nasa hopes its newest Mars spacecraft lives up to its know-itall name. The robotic explorer called Maven is due to blast off on Monday on a 10-month journey to the red planet. There, it