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
Environment & Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh
Scientists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract hydrogen from urine.
Newspapers recently carried an artist's vivid imaging of a collision of Earth and Mars that is supposed to take place some three billion years from now. As I was pondering over the image of the two planets melting into each other, I was reminded of a conversation
The epochal scale of today
Tropical mammals are evolving faster than those found at high latitudes or elevations, according to researchers. This pattern had previously been found in plants and marine protists but until now was assumed to apply only to cold-blooded organisms, reports BBC News.
Some people refuse to believe that HIV causes AIDS, despite all the evidence that it does
While conservation biologists debate whether to move organisms threatened by the warming climate, one forester in British Columbia is already doing it.
Scientists in Britain said they have found the first genes that are associated with testicular cancer, the commonest form of cancer for men between age of 15 to 45. Telltale variants in chromosomes 5, 6 and 12 are linked to the increased risk of the disease, according to their study, which compared the genetic code of 730 men who had testicular cancer with those of healthy men.
Scientists have developed an HIV test which they claim works in just 30 minutes and can be performed anywhere in the world - no laboratory required. An international team has developed the prototype CD4 rapid test, similar
Just when you thought the frenzy of Charles Darwin anniversary celebrations was on the wane, there is another tasty morsel. But unlike the multitude of TV and radio documentaries, books and exhibitions honouring the grandad of evolution, this item is all about popular participation. A project called Darwin Aloud is calling on people around the world to send in videos of themselves