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
Scientists
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The seabirds have flown
scotland, uk, is renowned for its seabirds. But this year, seasoned bird-watchers are mourning. On the south side of the isle of Shetland, off the coast, almost 24,000 nests of the migratory arctic
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Skeleton Lake
What happens when ice melts in the Roopkund tarn?
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Bytes
heady odour: US scientists have found how odours generate signals that eventually travel to the brain. As per the current knowledge, our sense of smell converts odours into brain signals, just as
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Fungi fight malaria
Especially helpful against mosquitoes resistant to pesticides
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The first Indians
Among the world s oldest indigenous populations, too
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Portable nuclear reactor
Works at room temperature
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Elimination kit
For the American bollworm, a common cotton pest
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Rice with a human touch
Resistant to 13 herbicides
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Cholera control
Through a group of viruses
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Where did leprosy originate?
Maybe in East Africa, but not in India, says a new study