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
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
The Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, organized a seminar on 29 August 2011. The speaker was M. V. Ramana, who is currently with the Nuclear Futures Laboratory
Stockholm: Three US-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics today for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. The Royal Swedish Academy
Three scientists who unlocked secrets of the body’s immune system, opening doors to new vaccines and cancer treatments, won the 2011 Nobel prize for medicine today. American Bruce Beutler and French
Paris: An ozone hole five times the size of California opened over the Arctic this spring, matching ozone loss over Antarctica for the first time on record, scientists said on Sunday. Formed by
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT-GN) have undertaken a project to develop a ‘slight early’ earthquake warning system. The institute has teamed up with California Institute
Clinical trials are crumbling under modern economic and scientific pressures. Nature looks at ways they might be saved.
A scientist from city-based National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Dattatraya H Dethe, has been selected for the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) Young Scientist award 2011 for his
L'Aquila, Italy: A group of Italian scientists went on trial on Tuesday for failing to predict an earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central Italy in 2009 despite signs of increased seismic
New Delhi: The scientific community involved in medical research is in jitters as the Animal Welfare Board of India has come up with a draft Animal Welfare Act, 2011, that has listed punishment for not
Shaving off extra pounds might help asthmatic kids prevent flareups of the disease, according to a study that found obese children have a more difficult time controlling their symptoms. The work is the