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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What it is all about
Bioenvironmental control of malaria involves a lot of simple measures that have several dimensions
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THE JURY
V RAMALINGASWAMI (Chairperson of The Jury) national research professor, and emeritus professor at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), and president, National Institute of Immunology, New
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Quality of Research: Only a fig leaf
I n 1996-97, the government of India claims that it spent Rs 333.8 crore on protection and sustainable use of the environment. Our research shows that in 1998-99, the government spent some Rs 474.81
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Peanuts for ecology
India spends very little on Science for Ecological Security. And then spends it poorly
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Science for ecology
Down To Earth and the Centre for Science and Environment announce the winner of the 2001 Green Scientist Award. In the exercise to rate the efforts of India's environmental scientists, the study shows some alarming facts. Firstly, that the Indian governme
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A brief mania called Hawkins
Barely 100 out of the 5,000 present at the Stephen Hawking public lecture actually understood what he said. Some felt Hawking had endorsed the predictions of astrology and had said it was, in fact, better than String Theory in explaining the universe. Sho
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Choking research
Mismanagement in India's premier forestry research institute
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BORN FREE
For the past six years, adultHanuman langurs in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, have been found to deliver quadruplets. Scientists working with the Indo-US Primate Projectare at present exploring the cause
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After it all began
Scientists replicate conditions moments after the Big Bang
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Lilliputians
Scientists claim to have discovered the smallest life forms. But are they alive?