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 …
Shrinking glacier cover could lead to increased volcanic activity in Iceland, scientists have warned. A new study, led by the University of Leeds, found there was less volcanic activity in Iceland when glacier cover was more extensive. As the glaciers melted, volcanic eruptions increased due to subsequent changes in surface …
Just in time for the holidays, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions are rolling out a new satellite-based drought severity index for climate watchers worldwide. Relying on data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission, the index adds terrestrial water storage (groundwater) to drought assessments, …
CHANCES are high that pelagic fisheries will diminish along the Atlantic coast of Africa, a scientist has concluded. Pelagic includes small fish such as sardines and herrings, as well as bigger fish such as tuna and pilchard. Norwegian chief scientist Bjorn Erik Axelsen of the Dr Fridtjof Nansen advanced research …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Scientists at the Nairobi-based International Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) announced Thursday they have discovered a technology that will manage ravaging pest that has worsened food insecurity in Africa. In a statement released in Nairobi, the scientists said the technology, Push-Pull, is effective in controlling the Fall …
Scientist Gualbert Séraphin Dorego of Senegal has – for the second time – signed an open letter calling the world to action on climate change and the protection of the planet’s environment. That’s because Dorego was one of more than 1,700 scientists who signed an original letter in 1992, issued …
BONN: Carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise this year after a three-year pause, scientists said at UN climate talks on Monday, warning that "time is running out", even as White House officials used the occasion to champion the fossil fuels that drive global warming. CO2 emissions, flat since 2014, …
PUNE: A new dengue virus has been confirmed for the first time in the country. Scientists at Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV), who spotted it and had been tracking it, said the new virus of an Asian genotype (genetic structure) was a concern as it was associated with severe …
The current period of climate change may be unparalleled over the last 100 million years, warn scientists who discovered a flaw in the way past ocean temperatures have been estimated up to now. According to the methodology widely used by the scientific community, the temperature of the ocean depths and …
The sea was much colder than previously thought, the study suggests, indicating that climate change is advancing at an unprecedented rate The methodology widely used to understand sea temperatures in the scientific community may be based on a mistake, the new study suggests, and so our understanding of climate change …
As a child during Ethiopia’s deadly famine of 1984, Asfawossen Kassaye remembers watching people from the countryside flock to his town, desperately looking for food after a drought devastated their fields. He knows first-hand how much damage climate change has done to his region of East Africa, where scientists say …
HYDERABAD: The Environment Protection and Training Research Institute (EPTRI) took on the CSIR Scientists Service Forum accusing it of being `antidevelopment' in its stance on the Hyderabad Pharma City .While saying that all suggestions would be considered before the finalization the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report prepared by it, EPTRI …
Soot trapped in the feathers of songbirds over the past 100 years is causing scientists to revise their records of air pollution. US researchers measured the black carbon found on 1,300 larks, woodpeckers and sparrows over the past century. They've produced the most complete picture to date of historic air …
A new self-disinfecting device has been developed by scientists in order to combat dangerous hospital-acquired infections. According to the National Institute for Care and Excellence, 300,000 people contract hospital-acquired infections every year in England, putting the health of patients at risk and costing the NHS around £1bn. Independent tests of …
The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for improving images made of biological molecules. Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson will share the nine million kronor (£831,000) prize. They were named at a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden. They developed a technique called cryo-electron …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Land degradation is to blame for food insecurity in Eastern Africa region, a Kenyan scientist said on Friday. Eunice Wangui, a senior Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technician at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), African think tank on space science, said a study …
Right-wing media outlets like Breitbart, Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh echoed the Mail’s “significantly misleading” and now censured climate story Back in February, the conservative UK tabloid Mail on Sunday ran an error-riddled piece by David Rose attacking Noaa climate scientists, who had published data and a paper showing that …
Globally, it is clear that climate change is happening and has made economies and people insecure Over two decades ago the Supreme Court directed the government to make the subject of the environment mandatory in colleges across the country. After much pushing and prodding, the University Grants Commission (UGC) came …
The assumption by regulators around the world that it is safe to use pesticides at industrial scales across landscapes is false, according to a chief scientific adviser to the UK government. The lack of any limit on the total amount of pesticides used and the virtual absence of monitoring of …
Scientists say one-third of the ice stored in Asia's glaciers will be lost by the end of the century even if the world manages to meet its ambitious goal of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, affecting water supplies for millions of people on the continent. In a paper …
The team was successfully able to grow 75% of the treated plant with white, instead of violet, petalsadventtr/iStock For the first time ever, scientists have used the CRISPR gene-editing technology to drastically change the colour of a flower. A Japanese garden plant's colour was changed from violet to white using …
