Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
http://www.eol.org/ Five major universities in the us are on a mission to create the Earth's book of life. According to the researchers, over the next 10 years, information about the planet's 1.8 million species will be available for free on web. This project has been initiated by the Harvard University, …
scientists now have firm genetic evidence that early Austro-Asiatic settlers in India, believed to be the oldest, migrated from here to south-east Asian countries and populated them. These early tribes migrated out of the country through the north-eastern states, a study published in BMC Evolutionary Biology (March 27 issue), says. …
A study on Anoles, a class of lizards found in the Caribbean islands, has raised doubts over an existing theory of evolution. Evolutionary biologist Kirsten E Nicholson from the Central Michigan University, USA, who studied nearly 140 species of anoles, found that they don't have similar dewlap configurations, even though …
why are humans the only primates without fur? The answer, new research suggests, could be the rampant practice of infanticide among stone-age women, who killed their furry children and reared only those born
DNA barcoding is a taxonomic method that uses a short genetic marker in an organism's mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to identify it. Cells of the higher organisms contain mtDNA, which are prone to mutation. It happens because mtDNA do not rearrange themselves. This gives rise to variations that can be easily …
The Oriya name for the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is baula kumbhira, which literally means crazy crocodile. The moniker certainly rings true for people living in about 50 villages around Bhitarakanika National Park in Orissa's Kendrapara district. Home to the largest concentration of saltwater crocodiles in the country, the reserve …
Yala, January 25, 2007: Sri Lanka's only known crossed-tusk elephant in the wild, known locally as Dalaputtuwa dies of paralysis caused by gunshot wounds in the periphery of a highly protected national park. The tusker, a rare sight in Sri Lankan jungles, was shot by 35-year old Punchi Banda Samarathunge …
THE temptation to pick up one of the golden clumps of gur (jaggery) seemed overwhelming as we walked around Asia's largest gur market. But Pramod Kumar Jain, our companion, urged restraint. "Do not pick this up. I will get you the real thing,' he said. Jain is a gur dealer …
the complex nature of the human brain has acted against its own evolution. Scientists say that as the human brain grew in size and complexity, the evolution of its gene sequences has slowed down, compared to that of the lower animals. The complex interactions that take place between multiple genes …
numbers phobia: Children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) have particular difficulty understanding numbers and sequences, a University of Alberta study shows. An assessment of 50 Canadian children diagnosed with FASD, a condition caused by the mother's alcohol consumption while a foetus is still in the womb, revealed that the …
ON September 22, around 50,000 people gathered at Kharo Chaan, 150 km southeast of Karachi in Pakistan, for quite an unprecedented festival: the Jashn-e-Indus Delta. Politicians and experts paid tributes to the river Indus, diyas (earthen lamps) were floated, a fair number of young men and women even danced in …
hazy skies on early Earth could have provided a substantial source of organic material useful for emerging life on the planet. In a study published in the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (Vol 103, No 48), a research team of the University of Colorado at Boulder measured organic …
a protein isolated from buffalo blood induces forward motility of goat sperm, an essential quality that makes fertilisation possible in animals and humans, claims a research team from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata. Known as the forward motility stimulating factor (fmsf), it has been shown to activate goat …
Stem cell researchers reacted with enthusiasm — and reservations — to a report that scientists had found stem cells in amniotic fluid, a discovery that might allow them to sidestep the controversy over destroying embryos for research. Researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard University reported Sunday that the stem …
The National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (NIRRH) has developed four Human Embryonic Stem (hES) cell lines using human feeder for its growth. "This will help save time and money involved in testing of
