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Report filed by the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology on the massive land sinking at Pernote village in Ramban district of Jammu & Kashmir, 27/01/2025

Report filed by the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology regarding the massive land sinking at Pernote village in Ramban district of Jammu & Kashmir. It was said that massive construction activities, including road expansions and construction of tunnels in eco-fragile zones in various area of Jammu & Kashmir was the …

Biofuels learn to eat less

Production of bioethanol has attracted global controversy because it uses important food crops. That could be about to change.

Breakthrough in quest to boost rice yields

If any crop needs an evolutionary boost, it's rice. Nearly half of humanity relies on the stuff, and yields must increase more than 50 per cent by 2050 to feed growing demand, so the discovery of a gene mutation that can bump up yields by a full 10 per cent …

How to persuade us to swallow nanofood

Imagine a new kind of food, dramatically lowered in fat, salt and sugar but tasting just as good as the real thing - in fact, it is the real thing. Thanks to nanotechnology, such foods could soon become reality. Yet their promising future is already in jeopardy. Because the food …

The taste of tiny: Putting nanofoods on the menu

Nothing says summer holidays quite like ice cream. On a hot afternoon by the sea, there's little to beat the simple pleasure of a cooling scoop of your favourite flavour. Can food get much more satisfying than this? Vic Morris thinks it can, with the help of nanotechnology. He is …

Meltdown: Why ice ages don't last forever

At last we understand why the monstrous ice sheets that periodically entomb continents vanish when they do.

Don't hang up: cellphones don't cause tumours (probably)

It cost $30 million, but the World Health Organization's study of tumours and cellphone use still doesn't provide definitive answers.

Lost lizards validate grim extinction predictions

Many models of climate-driven extinctions are criticised for being theoretical, but new hard data lends them weight.

Why deep-water oil spills do their damage deep down

As little as 2 per cent of the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico may be accounted for by surface slicks, a study of a controlled spill suggests.

Hurricanes cleaned up lead-laden New Orleans

Could the devastation caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita have had a silver lining? The sediment washed into New Orleans by the floods accompanying the storms may have blanketed over heavily polluted, lead-laden soil in the city, leading to a decrease in lead levels in the bloodstreams of children across …

What the climate bill means for the US way of life

The American Power Act would at last set limits on US greenhouse gas emissions

Oil industry failed to heed blowout warnings

The warnings were there a decade ago. Yet little has been done to address the risk of systems failure in deep-sea drilling operations,

Weed resistance could mean herbicide is futile

More weeds are evolving resistance to glyphosate

Lost lizards validate grim extinction predictions

Predictions that climate change alone could lead to the extinction of more than one-fifth of plant and animal species before the end of the century have often come under fire, and not just from climate-change deniers. Some biologists are sceptical because the predictions are largely based on theoretical models. Now, …

Plenty of wave energy to be harvested close to shore

Conventional wisdom says that wave farms must be more than 2 kilometres away from the coast, but a new analysis suggests otherwise.

Melting icebergs boost sea-level rise

Ice cubes don't increase the water level in your cup as they melt, so why are melting icebergs raising the oceans?.

Designing leaves for a warmer, crowded world

The genetic controls of leaf shape could allow us to boost crop yields, meet the challenge of feeding the world and adapt to climate change.

UN peacekeepers stage great ape escape in Congo

Call it the great ape escape. UN peacekeepers have flown four young gorillas from a conflict zone where they were at risk of being poached. The gorillas were taken to a rehabilitation centre 200 kilometres north of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and will eventually be released into a …

Cosmic 'dandruff' may have brought carbon to Earth

Fluffy specks of carbon-rich dust found in Antarctica could help explain how the carbon needed for life wound up on Earth.

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