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 …
There are two new spider species for you to be terrified of--or mesmerized by, depending if you like the eight-legged creatures or not. Scientists have uncovered two new species of peacock spiders that they've dubbed "skeletorus" and "sparklemuffin." The two new species were discovered in Australia and are both what …
It is known that the Sun plays an important part in controlling the Earth's climate, but now researchers show that solar activity affects climate change more than previously thought, according to recent research. Researchers reported Thursday that natural oscillations in the climate, which resulted in cooler Pacific Ocean waters, were …
Researchers have discovered a link between the levels of certain environmental pollutants that a person accumulates in his or her body and their level of obesity. "We found that people with higher levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were quantitatively more obese and also showed higher levels of cholesterol and …
Wheat was present in Britain 8,000 years ago, according to new archaeological evidence. Fragments of wheat DNA recovered from an ancient peat bog suggests the grain was traded or exchanged long before it was grown by the first British farmers. The research, published in Science, suggests there was a sophisticated …
Sri Lanka’s indigenously developed device could help other developing nations, too, deal with climate impacts A low cost mobile weather station made in Sri Lanka can capture and transmit near real-time data on rainfall. It raises alarm in the event of extreme rainfall and other natural disasters, which can help …
Scientists have witnessed carbon dioxide trapping heat in the atmosphere above the United States, showing human-made climate change 'in the wild' for the first time. A new study in the journal Nature demonstrates in real-time field measurements what scientists already knew from basic physics, lab tests, numerous simulations, temperature records …
Reigniting the debate over India's tiger census, which has shown a 30% rise in the big cat's population in four years, a British-Indian team of scientists has said the exercise mostly likely suffers from a measuring error — a finding rebuffed by experts involved in the census exercise. At the …
Scientists are learning a bit more about abrupt climate shifts. They examined African lake sediments from the past 20,000 years in order to advance their understanding of current changing weather patterns and what we might expect in the future. In order to better understand past climate shifts, the researchers analyzed …
Providing a vital clue to the future of Greenland, scientists have measured how the island's ice sheet reacted to a warm period 8,000 to 5,000 years ago when the temperatures were two to four degrees Celsius warmer than present. While the world is gearing up for a rising global sea …
Scientists have now turned smartphones into personal, real-time air pollution monitors. The team used smartphone and sensing technology to better pinpoint where and when pollution is at its worst. The researchers equipped more than 50 schoolchildren with smartphones that could track their location and physical activity. It found that travelling …
Earth has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 35,000 square kilometres since 1979, a new NASA study has found. “Even though Antarctic sea ice reached a new record maximum this past September, global sea ice is still decreasing,” said Claire Parkinson, author of the study and …
An investigation by The BMJ has uncovered evidence of the extraordinary extent to which key public health experts are involved with the sugar industry and related companies responsible for many of the products blamed for the obesity crisis through research grants, consultancy fees, and other forms of funding. Original Source
‘Goond Katia’ (Tragacanth-Katira Gum), conventionally used as a food item, can help save water while farming, as it has been proven as a herbal hydrogel after a five-year research by Dr Virender Singh Lather, principal scientist, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Karnal. Dr. Lather said, “It will be a substitute …
The focus should be on adaptation, afforestation and mitigation measures to cope with climate change. Dr Ashwani Kumar, Director General, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), stated this here on Monday while speaking at the inaugural session of the five-day training programme on the topic “Climate Change Vulnerability …
Climate change mitigation can be attained at cheaper cost through forestry activities such as afforestation and reforestation India needs to adapt itself to deal with the adverse effects of climate change, says Ashwani Kumar, director-general, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE). "Adaptation and mitigation are two keys that …
A Pew Research Center survey, released last week as part of a broader report on science and society, found that only 50 percent of Americans believe that humans are mostly responsible for climate change, while 87 percent of scientists accept this view. This 37-point gap persists even though thousands of …
Environmental hazards of synthetic surfactants (Chemical agents that reduce surface tension that are used in detergents, cosmetics etc) cause increased interest on bio surfactants, said Ashok Pandey, scientist from National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR. Presenting a paper on microbial surfactant at the second international conference on Bio …
It turns out that winters in Siberia are getting a bit warmer. Scientists have decoded climate data from old permafrost ground ice and have reconstructed the development of winter temperatures in Russia's Lena River Delta and have found that over the past 7,000 years, winter temperatures have gradually risen. Ice …
Degraded soils do not hold healthy forests. The scientists and foresters need to explore the causes of forest degeneration, said Uttarakhand Governor Dr KK Paul. He was speaking at the conclusion of the international symposium on transforming mountain forestry organised at the Forest Research Institute by the institute in collaboration …
Scientists have developed 10 new antibodies that starve tumours of oxygen and can help in the battle against cancer. They work by inhibiting blood vessel formation close to the tumour, which is thereby cut off from oxygen and nutrient supply . The researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have tested …
