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
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday called on the scientific community of the developing world to work together and pool in knowledge to solve problems that cannot be done individually. Inaugurating the 21st general meeting of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) here, the PM said developing countries should make a renewed effort to quicken the pace of developing scienti
More than 350 scientists from 50 countries will be discussing ways to promote science in less developed countries during the three-day 21 {+s} {+t} general meeting of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World beginning on Tuesday. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, will be inaugurating the meeting. The meeting will include a special session on climate change, during which TW
JODHPUR: The Bishnoi community, for whom conservation is religion, joined the scientists researching on the flora and fauna of the desert in a first time ever joint biodiversity brainstorming on the arid lands of the Thar in Rajasthan and Kutch in Gujarat here.
Dryland farming has come to the rescue of drought-hit farmers of 22 villages in Gumla, courtesy agriculture scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) at Gumla, 150 km from Ranchi. Scientists are advocating dryland farming across Bishunpur, Ghaghra, Gumla, Kamdara and Sisai blocks, distributing seeds that grow well in uplands. Farmers are sowing seeds of sweet potato, maize, lentils such as ur
Stockholm: An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing chemical methods widely used to make potential cancer drugs and other medicines, as well as slimmed-down computer screens. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were honored for their development four decades ago of one of the most sophisticated tools available to ch
AUS and two Japanese scientists won the 2010 Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for revolutionary chemical research with uses that range from fighting cancer to producing thin computer screens. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki shared the prize for the development of
Stockholm: Two Russianborn scientists shared the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for
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Singapore: More than a third of mammal species considered extinct or missing have been rediscovered, a study says, and a lot of effort is wasted in trying to find species that have no chance of being found again. Species face an accelerated rate of extinction because of pollution, climate change, habitat loss and hunting and that this rate of loss is putting ecosystems and economies at ever
In a new report, a blue-ribbon panel decries India's systemic failure to capitalize on basic research findings. The report, released last week by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, offers a stinging indictment