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 …
Despite promises by many big companies that produce, trade and use palm oil to clean up their supply chains, complaints are still pouring in over the conversion of forests into plantations from West Africa to Southeast Asia, experts say. A fledgling effort to balance forest protection and oil palm production …
In a breakthrough discovery, scientists have revealed a new method which could lead to cheap, efficient metal-based solar cells. Scientists from Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics described a new method that solar-panel designers could use to incorporate light-capturing nanomaterials into future designs. Bob Zheng, a graduate student and postdoctoral research associate …
Retired Nasa scientist James Hansen who first rang the climate alarm bell in 1988, is now back with a study that points to major sea level rise in the next 50 years owing to speeding up of glacier melt. In what Hansen says is his most important paper on climate …
NIGERIAN scientists led by the President of Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS), Prof. Oyewale Tomori, and National Coordinator, National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), Dr. Nnenna Ezeigwe, have hailed the world’s first malaria vaccine, which represents a major step toward prevention of a disease that kills more than half a million …
Exercise And Healthy Diet Can Help In Prevention You may soon be able to run a simple blood test to know if you are predisposed to diabetes. And with the right lifestyle changes, you can delay or prevent the disorder. What is more, experts say the research findings may be …
Using four years’ worth of data from the Kepler space telescope, researchers announce the new exoplanet along with 12 possible ‘habitable’ others Scientists on the hunt for extraterrestrial life have discovered “the closest twin to Earth” outside the solar system, Nasa announced on Thursday. Working off four years’ worth of …
FUZHOU - Scientists from China, Sweden and the United States have developed a high-yielding rice that can reduce methane emissions, a major greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, from paddies. By inserting a barley gene into rice, Sun Chuanxin and his colleagues created SUSIBA2 Rice, which stores more starch in …
Rocks, boulders and mud debris falling from Varunavat Parvat over the Tambakhani Tunnel shocked Mamta (5), a resident of the Gyansu area in Uttarkashi, as she woke up around midnight a few days ago. For her mother Kamla, the latest landslide incident has brought back the horrifying memories of a …
If the world warms up by 4°C, there is a 30 per cent probability that temperatures will be so high that even a moderate outdoor work cannot be carried out during the hottest month in North India, a study on the risks of climate change has said. There will also …
Taking a lead, India is working on an ambitious project with scientists, geophysicists, and seismologists of 27 countries to develop an early-warning system for "prediction" of earthquake. The warning could be the issued some seconds before the earthquake strikes. India is also planning to launch a satellite to track the …
Paris: Scientists presented rare evidence today linking climate change to a specific weather disaster: flooding that killed more than 170 people in Russia in 2012. Increasingly, global warming is invoked by climate campaigners when the world is hit by a new drought, tropical storm or heatwave. But scientists are generally …
A new design can make low cost solar panels more efficient by enhancing their ability to collect the sun`s energy and release it as electricity, shows research. Scientists have assembled the components of the panels in such a way that they resemble the natural systems the plants use to tap …
Key To Cure Lies In Early Detection; Assam's Kamrup Has Most Patients Despite advances in diagnostic and surgical techniques, the mortality rate from prostate cancer has not gone down in India. According to experts, there is a clear lack of awareness about the disease and this is why 80-90% patients …
With the crucial UN climate change conference scheduled to take place later this year, the Science Express - science exhibition mounted on a train - will focus on the theme of climate change this year. A venture of three ministries - Environment, Science and Technology and Indian Railways, the Science …
A University of Wyoming professor has made a discovery that answers a nearly 100-year-old question about water movement, with implications for agriculture, hydrology, climate science and other fields. After decades of effort, Fred Ogden, UW’s Cline Chair of Engineering, Environment and Natural Resources in the Department of Civil and Architectural …
A 'double-muscled' pig has been created by editing just one gene by scientists in South Korea and China. Cattle have been selectively bred over many generations to produce larger amounts of beef. The researchers, led by Jin-Soo Kim, a molecular biologist at Seoul National University, say they are now able …
Scientists in Switzerland announced a clean-energy breakthrough on Wednesday; a cheaper, solar technology that splits water molecules to create clean-burning hydrogen fuel. The solar panel design will make it cheaper to produce hydrogen, but a simple version won't be available for average citizens for at least 10 years, scientists said. …
A consortium of Ugandan and American scientists are conducting studies into zoonotic diseases that affect both humans and animals or cross from either species. "We are focusing on diseases which come from the animal world and are transferred to humans. We have already done research on brucellosis in cattle," said …
A "natural Great Wall” may have spurred biodiversity in East Africa, according to an international study led by Chinese researchers. A rare plant species that grows on neighbouring mountains suggested no sign of genetic intermingling, despite the mountains being as close as 30m in some areas, the team found. Genetic …
ISLAMABAD: The winner of the 2015 UNESCO Avicenna Prize of Ethics in Science is Pakistani Professor of Biotechnology and bioethicist Zabta Khan Shinwari. The prize, which includes a diploma, a UNESCO Avicenna Gold Medal and a cheque of $10,000, will be awarded at an official ceremony that will be organised …
