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
Scientists today publish the first genetic clues to unravelling the mystery of why some smokers puff their way through life without developing disease while others die young of lung cancer. Three research teams have independently discovered a set of genetic variations that increase the risk of lung cancer and may make smokers more addicted to nicotine. Their papers appear in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics. The gene affected seems to make a protein that acts as a "receptor", or docking point, for nicotine in the brain.
Scientists have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more prone to get hooked on tobacco, smoke more cigarettes longer, and develop deadly lung cancer. The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of the addiction of smoking and how genetics and cigarettes combine in cancer, experts said. And it may lay the groundwork for more tailored quit-smoking treatments.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has grossly underestimated the challenges of reducing and stabilizing greenhousegas emissions, according to an influential group of climate-policy experts.
Professor John Anthony Allan from King
AL GORE FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT OF USA, NOBEL LAUREATE, AUTHOR AND AWARD WINNING FILMMAKER
The Union Ministry of Science and Technology is forcing through a controversial act which seeks to regulate rights over government-funded research. Many feel that Public Funded R&D (Protection,
Food scientists are meeting in Cusco, Peru, this week to find ways of boosting world potato production to ease the strain of surging cereal prices on the world's poorest countries. Potato production already reached a record high last year as cereal prices rose, partly as a consequence of grain producers - such as the US - switching to bio-fuel crops. The impact of more expensive cereals has been harshest on developing countries that are dependent on imports.
<p>Arthur C. Clarke's technological prescience deserves to be honoured; his endless optimism needs to be cherished. (Editorial)</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7186/full/452387a.html" target="_blank">Original Source</a></strong></p>
In December 2005, Stephen Johnson dunked himself in hot water. Johnson, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), decided to discard advice from a scientific advisory committee when he set a major air-quality standard for soot. Scientists and environmental groups were outraged. This time Johnson did it again with ozone, the main component of smog and the hand of the White House was plain to see.
It's a research that may solve the riddle of how vocal learning evolved in humans