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
Establishment scientists are only human, and can be expected to spin everything and anything to prove that they did deserve the award. That seems to them more worthwhile than scientific truth, says Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar.
Raising questions on the potency of India
Scientists of National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) here have developed a model for earthquake forecast.
How do climatologists know that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will warm the earth?
Two years of tense negotiations on climate change are coming to an end next week in Copenhagen. Twelve years after similar talks produced the flawed 1997 Kyoto protocol, and two decades after international efforts to tackle climate change started, governments are at last preparing to draw up a global framework on greenhouse gases.
The scientists made the breakthrough by creating a patch of human skin on a mouse's back using stem cells French scientists have found a way to create human skin rapidly from stem cells, a discovery that could save the lives of many burns victims who are vulnerable to infection and now wait weeks for a skin graft.
A large number of cities across the world, including the eastern Indian metropolis of Kolkata, are at risk from the threat of rising sea level due to global warming, a major international study has claimed.
If scientists are to be believed, millions of people across the world could soon be eating bread and biscuits made from -- cotton which is rich in protein. Cotton seed is inedible as it contains a poisonous substance called gossypol. Now, the scientists claim to have found a way to reduce the poison which can harm the liver and heart, the Daily Express reported.
Mumbai: Scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) should work with external stakeholders and beneficiaries to facilitate technology pull and support and push technologies for wealth generation in rural India, according to Anil Kakodkar, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.