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
One of the biggest purges of the scientific literature in history is finally getting under way. After more than a decade of suspicion about the work of anaesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii, formerly of Toho
Plagued by environmental hazards and threats to bio-diversity, scientists of the country were urged to explore solutions to Jammu & Kashmir’s specific problems. While Vice President Hamid Ansari urged
Dr. Rao interacts with students India is one of the few countries, which has a comprehensive capability of nuclear waste management according to P. R. Vasudeva Rao, Director and distinguished scientist, Chemistry Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam. Dr. Rao addressed the students at a programme organised by National Engineering College, Kovilpatti, on ‘India and Nuclear Energy’ on Saturday.
The Montreal Protocol (MP) is the only climate change treaty that has been ratified by every country in the globe and is testament to the fact that nations can achieve complete unanimity in fighting climate change. In a function held to celebrate 25 years of MP organised by the ministry of environment and forests, New York-based Dr Suely Carvalho, chief of the Montreal Protocol, pointed out that parties to the protocol have phased out 98 per cent of ozone-depleting chemicals.
NewDelhi:Genetically modified mosquitoes, created and bred in a lab and capable of destroying its own species, is the latest weapon in the global fight against dengue. The dengue virus is spread by
Top scientists of the Bureau of Indian Standards have been found by the Central Vigilance Commission as having colluded with manufacturers to issue fake standard certifications for domestic lamps. The
A mysterious new species of stick insect has been discovered living in the Philippines by scientists. The stick insect is wingless, lives on the ground rather than in trees, and is spectacularly coloured,
When environmental engineer John Feighery got an internship at NASA in the 1990s, he wanted to be an astronaut but he was given a job working with a team designing the U.S. bathroom for the space station.
Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy which plays the most decisive role in the socioeconomic development of the country. Indian agriculture is a miscellaneous and extensive sector involving
It's a season that inspires and engages everyone, from the farmer to the policy maker. From the scientist to the travel writer. From the economist to the music critic, and from the botanist to the epicure.