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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India makes its claim for sulphide mining from the Indian Ocean
India has made its first ever claim before the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for the exploration of poly-metallic sulphide from the Mauritius seas. Prior to country's first ever seabed exploration for sulphides, a preliminary study has been completed with the help of the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) in the Rodriguez Triple Junction, a geologic junction in the southern Indian Ocean where three tectonic plates meet, near Mauritius.
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City scientists to predict Mumbai’s air quality
After Delhi and Pune, now it is the turn of Mumbai to get its own model to predict the quality of air. System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) scientists will soon install air quality monitoring
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More frequent droughts as climate change hits Pacific: New Zealand scientist
Severe droughts that happen once every 20 years will affect New Zealand once every two to five years by the year 2100 and the country's Pacific neighbors will need help to deal with the impacts of climate
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Delhiites worst hit by air pollution: Study
New Delhi: If you did not consider air pollution a major threat, then think again. Scientists from the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) at Kolkata have been studying air pollution in Delhi
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Panel to study air pollution causes in Chandrapur: Deotale
A study of various pollutions in the district and factors that attribute to air pollution has been taken up by a panel of scientists from NEERI and IIT Mumbai, to work out a sustainable solution to the
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No health hazard’ from mobile phone emissions
The umbrella body of GSM mobile phone operators, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), today said in its latest advisory on health risks associated with mobile phones and their base stations
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Stubborn things
IN 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a body of scientists, said the glaciers of the Himalayas could melt by 2035. This was complete fiction. It also said global surface temperatures
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Stubborn things
IN 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a body of scientists, said the glaciers of the Himalayas could melt by 2035. This was complete fiction. It also said global surface temperatures
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Goa ideal to grow sweet corn: ICAR
Researchers at India’s premier agricultural institute have found the Goan climatic condition suitable for the farming of sweet corn, the cash crop that is in good demand. Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s (ICAR) senior horticulture scientists Dr K Ramachandrudu and Dr M Thangam culminating their two-year long research have come out with this encouraging finding for the farmers who want to go for alternate cropping.
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Planet racing towards 2°C temperature rise
May Reach Tipping Point In 25 Yrs: IPCC The report issued on September 27 by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may sound similar to the one issued five years ago — after all, it says that humanity is causing climate change, though with more certainty. But on two key aspects this report has categorically said what was never said before.