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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New drug targets for malaria found
Scientists have discovered crucial new processes that allow malaria parasites to escape red blood cells and infect other cells, offering potential new treatment targets. The researchers are working with
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Scientists have seen a shocking rise in obesity levels in urban Africa over the past 25 years
Rapid urbanisation and associated changes in people’s lifestyle means Africa faces a growing obesity problem. Across the continent the share of the urban population is projected to increase to 50% by 2030
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Dry spell a result of climate change: Weather scientists
SHIMLA: The first snowfall of the season on Tuesday might have come as a surprise for many, but the weather scientists are not surprised at all with the dry spell that lasted for almost two months since
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Scientists breeding super-nutritious crops to help solve global hunger
An incredible 155 million children around the world are chronically undernourished, despite dramatic improvements in recent decades. In view of this, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals include Zero
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Scientists power fuel cells with living algae
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that fuel cells can be powered by living algae, which is five times more efficient than current models. According to a statement, it is thought
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Researchers find approach to cultivate high-manganese, low-cadmium rice
Chinese researchers have found a major quantitative trait locus (QTL) that can be used to cultivate high-manganese, low-cadmium rice, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) said in a statement
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Warming, melting Arctic is 'new normal'
MIAMI: An increasingly warm Arctic, where temperatures rise twice as fast as the rest of the planet and ice melts at an alarming pace is the "new normal," warned a global scientific report on Tuesday.
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Soon, a global climate observatory
PARIS: The heads of several of the world's space agencies have proposed the creation of a climate observatory to pool acquired data and share it with scientists around the globe, according to a declaration
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Climate scientists study the odds of a megadrought
To help untangle fact from speculation, Cornell climate scientists and their colleagues have developed a “robust null hypothesis” to assess the odds of a megadrought – one that lasts more than 30 years
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Scientists link high rate of throat cancer to local soils
The study involved researchers from Tenwek hospital, US National Cancer Institute, University of Missouri and Mayo Clinic. This is one of several global efforts to understand the cause for high rates of