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 the trend, providing a service worth $43billion in storing carbon, the academics found. The research, published in Nature Geoscience, shows that …
For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a vanished species, never again found in the wild. Until now. A group of scientists, led by renowned …
Last year wasn't just the Earth's hottest year on record _ it left a century of high temperature marks in the dust. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and Nasa announced on Wednesday that 2015 was by far the hottest year in 136 years of record keeping. NOAA said 2015's temperature …
Last year’s global average temperature was the hottest ever by the widest margin on record, two U.S. government agencies said on Wednesday, adding to pressure for deep greenhouse gas emissions cuts scientists say are needed to arrest warming that is disrupting the global climate. Data from U.S. space agency NASA …
The solar system may host a ninth planet that is about 10 times bigger than Earth and orbiting far beyond Neptune, according to research published on Wednesday. Computer simulations show that the mystery planet, if it exists, would orbit more than 50 times farther from the sun than Earth, astronomers …
Move over, Grand Canyon! The world's largest canyon - over 1,000 kilometre long and up to one kilometre deep - may lie under the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists including those from India have claimed. The canyon system is made up of a chain of winding and linear features buried under …
OSLO: Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists said on Wednesday. In the past million years, the world has had about 10 ice ages before swinging back …
A naturally occurring food preservative that grows on dairy products may be used to treat cancer and deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a new study has claimed. Researchers at the University of Michigan in US found that feeding rats a ‘nisin milkshake’ killed 70-80 per cent of head and neck tumour cells …
Given the close linkages between farming and weather, the climate change phenomenon is seriously affecting the mental health of farmers, suggests a new study conducted by an Australian scientist from the University of Murdoch. Neville Ellis, from Murdoch University’s Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability, interviewed 22 farmers in Newdegate …
When it comes to pest control, farmers have far more influence than you might think. Scientists have found that the actions of individual farmers should be considered when studying and modelling strategies of pest control. In this latest study, the researchers presented a model to understand the actions of humans …
El Niño is one of the most predictable climate events on the planet, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but it also has a way of keeping climate scientists guessing. In March the oceanographers predicted the current event could be the weakest on record, but in August …
The state agriculture department is going to take initiative for integrated organic farming to produce poison free vegetables and fish. The farmers will sell these items in the market and will also create awareness among other farmers. Purnendu Bose, state agriculture minister, said that a pilot project is going to …
A team at Columbia University hope to use the energy produced by bacteria when they expand and contract A small Lego device on the shelf of professor Ozgur Sahin’s office at Columbia University could open up the possibility of another form of renewable energy, and one that is much cheaper …
The timing and duration of historical climate changes have been debated by scientists for years. Ice core records, though, can offer a way for scientists to study glacial-interglacial cycles. However, the precise dating of the core is key to understanding the timing of these cycles. In this latest study, the …
Mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef caused by an El Nino weather event will take place early next year, marine biologists have warned. Coral reefs around the world have already been severely damaged by unusually warm ocean temperatures. When corals are put under stress by changes in conditions …
The tilt of the Earth, or its obliquity as it is called, affects the world’s heaviest rainbelt, suggests an international research. The research shows that there is a connection between the Earth’s tilt, which shifts every 41,000 years, and the Earth’s largest source of heat and moisture — the Intertropical …
A scientist today moved the National Green Tribunal seeking a direction to close down the Delhi Secretariat building on the ground that it violates mandatory pollution norms. Mahendra Pandey, who was previously associated with Central Pollution Control Board as a scientist, has alleged that the Secretariat building has not applied …
They pump out about 10 times more methane than thought The world’s rivers and streams pump about 10 times more methane into our atmosphere than scientists estimated in previous studies, new research suggests. Do not underestimate the babbling brook. When it comes to greenhouse gases, these bucolic water bodies have …
Could putting vibrations into the ground be a way to keep elephants from coming into conflict with humans? Already, attempts have been made to scare the animals away from villages using their own very low-frequency alarm calls - with partial success. Now scientists are studying whether even better results could …
Do not underestimate the babbling brook. When it comes to greenhouse gases, these bucolic water bodies have the potential to create a lot of hot air. According to a new analysis in the journal Ecological Monographs, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and colleagues, the world’s rivers and streams …
DEHRADUN: Scientists in the hills state have disagreed with environment minister Prakash Javadekar who told the Rajya Sabha on Monday that 87% of Himalayan glaciers, according to a study, were stable since 2001. Experts said, contrary to the minister's claims, most of the total 968 glaciers in the region, were …
