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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Tower power
Israeli scientists claim to have devised a cheap way to generate electricity in deserts near the coast by using sea water. The method can also be modified to desalt sea water and use it for desert
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Impossible is possible
Cold nuclear fusion has been observed during a recent experiment. If this holds ground, energy harnessing process would become much easier
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Water current
Hydroelectricity can now be generated without the need of costly civil works and installation of complex machinery
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Old fuels, new wealth
Staff shortages in the US fossil-fuel industry are good news for geologists, chemists and physicists. The boom is likely to continue despite the economic downturn and the rise of renewable energy, says Emma Marris.
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Wind power: High hopes
A vast supply of energy is racing around the planet far above the surface. Erik Vance meets the engineers trying to bring the power of high-altitude wind down to earth.
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Scientist offers rural alternative to diesel
A young scientist, Dhrubatara Mitra, selected by the Centre
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Scientist warns of energy crisis
In the next 50 years, India and China will have a US kind of lifestyle and development. India has to think how it would meet the energy requirement then, said Mano Manoharan, a scientist working on nano technology and head of the Global Research at the GE John F Welch Technology Centre, here on Monday.
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Scientists root for nuclear power plant
The scientific fraternity has made a renewed pitch for a nuclear power plant in West Bengal where the demand for power has been steadily rising.
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N Korea lifts veil off new nuke plant
US Scientist Says He Saw Hundreds Of Centrifuges At Enrichment Facility David E Sanger Washington: North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration with the prospect that the country is preparing to expand its nuclear arsenal or build a far more powerful type of
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India blocks nuclear meeting
The Indian government has barred a group of nuclear scientists from meeting in New Delhi, where they planned to challenge key elements of the nation's nuclear programme, Nature has learned.