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
At a time when environment clearance procedures are blamed for delaying infrastructure projects, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said protection of the environment and promoting development need not be a zero-sum game. He pitched for transparent regulatory regimes so that both could be pursued in tandem. Inaugurating the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS), organised by The Energy and Resources Institute here, Singh said: “What is required is regulatory regimes that are transparent, accountable and subject to oversight and monitoring.”
How climate change science is conducted, communicated and translated into policy must be radically transformed if 'dangerous' climate change is to be averted.
Realising the urgency for the industry to take a pro-active stance to create patient awareness and education about clinical research, The Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises (ABLE) is planning to set up a clinical trials committee. This move is to assist the government and the industry to share information arising from drug trials in public domain in an accessible and anonymous form. However, this must be balanced with the need to ensure disclosure policies protect patients’ personal data, companies’ intellectual property rights and confidential commercial information in order to continue to develop innovative medicines in areas of unmet clinical need.
Scientists Lift Moratorium A Year After Tests Were Suspended Over Terror Fears Experiments with a deadly flu virus, suspended last year after a fierce global debate over safety, will start up again in some laboratories, probably within the next few weeks, scientists say. The research touched off a firestorm in 2011 when it became known that two groups, one in the Netherlands and another in the United States, had genetically altered a dangerous bird flu virus to make it more contagious in mammals. Scientists warned that a deadly pandemic could break out if the mutant virus leaked out of the lab accidentally or if terrorists stole it or made it themselves, using articles in scientific journals for the recipe.
Researchers have located a new malaria-causing parasite — Plasmodium Knowlesi — for the first time in humans in India. A team of researchers, consisting of Manoj Kumar Das of the National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), Shiv S. Singh of G.B. Pant Hospital, Port Blair, Rupesh K. Tyagi and Yagya D. Sharma of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) located the plasmodium in tribal people in the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
Greenland is less vulnerable than expected to a runaway melt that would drive up world sea levels, according to scientists who found that only a quarter of the ice sheet thawed in a warm period more than
British scientists seeking to tap more efficient forms of solar power are exploring how to mimic the way plants transform sunlight into energy and produce hydrogen to fuel vehicles. They will join other
SOOT created by the incomplete burning of fossil fuels and organic matter is the second most important man-made substance behind global warming and reducing its emission into the atmosphere could buy valuable
Scientists Pinpoint Gene That Can Inhibit Tumour Growth New Delhi: There is great excitement at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Biotechnology. Scientists here claim to have found that the SCO2 gene has potential tumour-suppressing qualities and that it can be a treatment for different kinds of cancer. Their research paper has been published in the current issue of the journal, Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Stating that the country was on the threshold of a new milestone in its quest for civil nuclear energy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today announced that the first nuclear reactor with Russian collaboration at Kudankulam would start operating soon with the second reactor to follow later in the current year. ''As we pursue our national growth objectives to meet the rising aspirations of our people, the supply of affordable clean energy will be one of our foremost national challenges and a key priority for our government. Nuclear energy will remain an essential and increasingly important element of our energy mix. We are in the process of expanding our indigenous nuclear power programme,'' he said on the occasion of Department of Atomic Energy's Lifetime Achievement Awards for 2011 here.