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
SHILLONG, Jan 11
The last and third 50-member team of scientists in the 28th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica was flagged here today. The successive Antarctica expeditions are in continuation of India's efforts at studying various aspects of climate variability, besides unlocking the secrets of life in the sub-zero temperatures.
London: Forget green cars or
Sailors, fishermen and cruise passengers should be on the alert. If anybody spots a yellow rubber duck bobbing on the ocean waves, NASA would like to know.
Two of the world
The current crisis in worldwide food prices reinforces the need for more productive agriculture. Emma Marris meets five ambitious scientists determined to stop the world from going hungry.
For the past three years, botanist Vicki Funk of the Smithsonian Institution has been trying, unsuccessfully, to transfer select leaf specimens from Brazil to the U.S. National Herbarium for identification. Comparing closely related plants
One Japanese and two American scientists share the Chemistry Nobel for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein.
Interview with M. Annadurai, project director, Chandrayaan-1 . M. Annadurai:
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