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
French scientist Gilles-Eric S
Ludhiana: Paddy straw, which is considered a waste by farmers, can be converted into useful manure. This was stated by Pritpal Singh, Gurteg Singh and Sat Pal Saini, scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ropar. Every year, nearly 220 lakh tonne straw generated from paddy crop is burnt by farmers in the fields.
Dr Milkha Singh Aulakh, Dean, College of Agriculture, PAU, attended the fourth and final research coordination meeting (RCM) of the coordinated research project
LEH: Anyone visiting Ladakh for the first time can be left gasping for breath due to low oxygen levels in the high altitude region. But a successful plantation drive has brought about environmental changes-driving up oxygen content by 50% and, most unusually, making it rain, say Indian scientists.
London: Scientists are considering using German-built robots for clearing rogue satellites from Earth
KOLKATA: Thirteen months after it had been called off following a technical fault, the world's most ambitious scientific experiment is set to resume. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Switzerland, that seeks to simulate the Big Bang, will roll again in November.
Venkatraman Unravelled Mystery Of How Protein Is Built By A Ribosome TIMES INSIGHT GROUP As India celebrates another Nobel moment, science salutes the work of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who painstakingly, atom by atom, decoded the structure of ribosomes those tiny worksheds in each cell where life is built.
TN-Born Ramakrishnan
Borlaug contributed to the agriculture of many countries by M. S. Swaminathan