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 …
A staggering range of commonly used chemicals from insecticides to plastic additives to some common medications used even in very low quantities are likely to cause cancer. This was the conclusion reached by a massive study involving 174 scientists from 28 countries -including India --who researched the chemical actions …
A new technology developed by scientists at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) can store solar energy for up to several weeks; an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells. The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the …
Sure, summers in the city are typically hot. But this seems a little more intense than most, and something similar happened just last year. That's the question increasingly being asked by communities around the world as droughts, heatwaves and floods bring devastation to their door. For a long time, climate …
New Zealand scientists said Monday that government funding policies have effectively prevented them from making any serious input into the government's climate change stance. The New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS) said it had concerns about serious flaws in the government's recent public consultation on climate change. "Climate change will …
France is also acutely conscious of the fact that the previous such move had backfired and Copenhagen meeting had ended in a failure. Global leaders and heads of states might have to assemble again this year, in Paris, just as they had done in Copenhagen six years ago, to make …
Scientists weary after years of often vicious opposition by doubters of their climate-change findings see this year as crucial to the planet's future because of a religious document expected from Pope Francis on Thursday. The rare encyclical, or teaching letter, expected to promote climate action as a moral imperative could …
PANAJI: A one-hectare plot of cultivable land in Bhars, Canacona, has been converted into a multi-crop unit with cashew, mango, guava, turmeric and other crops being raised under an integrated farming scheme. Farmers in the hinterland hamlet on Canacona-Sanguem border are witnessing a pleasant change, as Indian council of agricultural …
Why this weird weather? Why have western disturbances—the extra-tropical storms that originate in the Mediterranean and Atlantic seas—been lashing us again and again, with devastating impacts on agriculture? Is this normal? Or has weird weather become the new definition of normal?
BONN: Another round of UN climate talks wrapped up on Thursday after making little headway towards producing a text for a worldwide pact due in just six months' time. After 11 days of wrangling by negotiators, the co-chairs of the 195-nation process said they had been asked to take matters …
Researchers are working on feed supplements that could reduce methane emitted by cows through belching and flatulence, Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has said. It is estimated agriculture is responsible for 14 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases, and methane accounts for a large portion of that. Cows emit …
Scientists issued a dire warning Tuesday to UN climate negotiators in Bonn of a vicious global warming cycle that will be unlocked with the thawing of carbon-bearing permafrost. There may be 1,500 billion tonnes of carbon locked away in permafrost -- perennially frozen ground covering about a quarter of exposed …
US researchers claim to have developed a single test that is able to identify past exposure to every known human virus infection, using a drop of blood. The technique decodes the infection history imprinted in our immune response. The scientists hope that the test will eventually provide important insight into …
INDORE: Pre-monsoon activities have begun over the region and meteorological department has predicted monsoon to arrive by June 15. Weather scientists, however, said El Nino threat over India may result in 7% less than average rainfall in 30 years. "Pre-monsoon activities have begun due to moisture incursion from Arabian Sea. …
Farmers in Africa and East Asia are expected to suffer crop losses as extreme weather linked to the El Nino phenomenon alters rainfall patterns, scientists told a conference on climate change in Bonn on Wednesday. The rainy season has been delayed in several African nations, and it is difficult to …
UN climate talks were to resume in Bonn on Monday, tasked with sculpting a historic deal on greenhouse gases due to be sealed in Paris little more than six months from now. The 10-day conference will be opened by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who will steer the Paris talks, …
India is baking! The heat is on as most parts of India are reeling under a severe heat wave with temperatures hovering at over 45 degrees Celsius, and more than a thousand people have died because of the continuing heat wave, which is unprecedented in its spread all across the …
Washington: US President Barack Obama warned Thursday that climate change was making natural disasters worse, as he toured the National Hurricane Center ahead of the annual storm season. "The best climate scientists in the world are telling us that extreme weather events like hurricanes are likely to become more powerful," …
Rising Temperatures Could Reduce Their Volume By Up To 99%, Says New Study Glaciers in Nepal's Everest region could shrink at least 70% or even disappear entirely by the end of the century as a result of climate change, scientists warned on Wednesday . Researchers in Nepal, the Netherlands and …
Anti-pollution rules may have uncertain effects. Scientists have found that air pollution regulations issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may not be as effective as believed. In this latest study, the researchers analyzed the costs and expected lifesavings of nine regulations issued between 2011 and 2013. The bulk of …
The monsoon is likely to arrive in Kerala on May 30 -as predicted by India Meteorological Department -but it may be weak because of El Nino's impact, IMD scientists have indicated. Experts from Skymet, a private weather agency , too said the monsoon's first surge over Kerala would be mild …
