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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‘Drying’ DNA pool stalks Indian tigers
London: A diminishing gene pool is posing a grave threat to Indian tigers. Scientists say the famed big cats of India are facing a serious threat of extinction owing to a ‘collapse’ in the variety of their
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Scientists unveil first vaccine made in India for Rotavirus
India on Tuesday unveiled its first breakthrough vaccine for severe rotavirus diarrhoea, which kills more than 1 lakh children under five in the country every year. Billed as India’s first social innovation
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Chemical in microwave popcorn bad for heart?
Washington: Scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher, have linked perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) — a chemical found in microwave popcorn bags — to cardiovascular disease. PFOA is also found in nonstick
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Scientists develop 'superwheat' to increase yield by 30%
Cambridge-based scientists claim to have developed a new type of 'superwheat' which could boost productivity by 30 per cent. Scientists at The National Institute of Agricultural Botany in UK have combined
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Climate change forecast to shrink habitat of common plants, animals
The habitats of many common plants and animals will shrink dramatically this century unless governments act quickly to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Sunday after studying 50,000
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Cambridge-based scientists develop 'superwheat'
The scientists transferred some of the resilience of the ancient ancestor of wheat into modern varieties British scientists say they have developed a new type of wheat which could increase productivity
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Gene causing rare inherited brain disorder among children found
Will make future diagnosis of rare genetic disorders easier A global team of researchers has identified the gene behind a rare brain disorder in a four-year-old boy from Punjab who has not been able to walk or sit without support since he was born. His condition, undiagnosed till now, has been attributed to mutations in DARS gene which scientists discovered through newly developed genome sequencing technologies that make it possible to strike at the root of rare diseases.
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Drug-resistant malaria parasite discovered
Scientists have discovered three new drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite in Cambodia, which they say have spread to other parts of Asia as well. The parasites are genetically different from
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Study brings tree out of red list
Syzygium travncoricum, a tree endemic to Kerala, is no longer ‘critically endangered’ as classified on the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Field studies conducted by the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) in the wake of the IUCN classification suggest that the tree can now move to the ‘endangered’ list. Known locally as kulavetti or vadhamkolli, the tree entered the IUCN’s ‘critically endangered’ list on the basis of a Conservation Assessment Management Plan (CAMP) workshop conducted under the Biodiversity Conservation Prioritisation Project India in 1998. The IUCN had then suggested periodic updating of the classification based on information provided by authoritative agencies.
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Now, get metro air quality info digitally
Pune: City-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology officially launched its second ‘System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) - Pune’ for Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad on Wednesday. Other facilities such as ‘air quality and weather assessment and data on hitech-digital India’ (AWADHI) — a one stop-shop for metro air quality information was also launched. In addition to it, an ‘interactive voice response (IVR) service’ was also introduced, where citizens of Pune can get the current and 24-hour advance forecast information on air quality and weather of Pune and Delhi just by dialing a toll free number.