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
Jairam Ramesh today led another line of assault, saying government scientists who had dared to oppose the introduction of Bt brinjal were being harassed. At the same time, senior agricultural scientists have started to openly attack Ramesh on the decision.
Amid mounting attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a small number of its volunteer leadership has tried to respond to the horde of bloggers and reporters as well as explain themselves to colleagues. Prominent among them has been ecologist Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science. Science excerpts a 5 February phone interview with him.
Scientists and activists have welcomed the decision of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh to defer commercialisation of Bt brinjal. Even Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company (Mahyco), which created the genetically modified vegetable, said it respects the verdict.
Eminent soil scientist and former executive director of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, M. Velayutham today stressed on the need to set up a state farmers
Ludhiana: Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) will honour Dr MS Swaminathan, a renowned agricultural scientist of the country and the world, and will confer on him the degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa) at its convocation on February 10 here.
NEW DELHI, Feb. 4: Almost cocking a snook at the IPCC, India has decided to set up its own Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA) to monitor climate change in the country. Announcing the setting up of the INCCA, Union forests and environment minister Jairam Ramesh said it would focus on using the three "Ms"
An Associate Laureate of the 2004 Rolex Awards, Jo Thompson was selected for her pioneering efforts to save the bonobo, an endangered ape that dwells only in the Congo Basin region of Africa. During the Congo's war years (1998-2002), Thompson's wildlife project maintainted an active presence within the country.
In a breakthrough in research for HIV treatment, scientists on Sunday claimed to have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of an enzyme responsible for propagating the virus in a body.
Pune Principal scientist & project director of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative speaks at seminar on new trends in vaccine development
<p>Recent approval of Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India for commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal led to an expression of a variety of opinions in the popular media. Biotech News asked some of India’s most respected scientific personalities to comment on the issue of Bt Brinjal and the controversy