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
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GREEN REMEDIES
The status of health can be improved with proper environment management
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Desert green
A gene found in humans can help plants thrive in arid regions
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Wings of change
Researchers are trying to end malaria at its very root: by genetically modifying mosquitoes that carry the disease
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Close insight
Scientists may soon explain the mys-terious behaviour of some icebergs. They have discovered a submerged "ice foot" extending more than 50 metres (m) out to sea from the wall of a glacier. This could
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Neptune factor
Scientists discover "chimneys" on the sea floor, hope to get an insight into how the ecosystem works
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Hammer of God
The collision of a meteorite with the Earth produced energy about a million times more than the largest earthquake ever recorded
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Warming the world
This year is the hottest year since temperature records have been kept. Scientists believe that the Earth is getting warmer because of the build-up of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the
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A new light
New findings suggest that our ancestors did not tame fire as early as is believed
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Bee confused
Far from being avid shift workers, young honeybees are quite hopeless when it comes to timekeeping
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Nerves of steel
The frozen remains of Otzi the Neolithic hunter contain the best-preserved nervous tissue yet discovered in an ancient human, say German biologists. Climbers stumbled on the Tyrolean ice man in the