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  • Bigger animals 'aren't always faster'

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    Washington: Bigger isn't always better -- at least when it comes to the sprinting speed of animals, says a new study by Harvard University. "Typically, bigger animals tend to run faster than smalle

    larger body mass
  • Arctic methane leaks accelerating global warming

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    London: The researchers have uncovered a surprising and potentially important new source of Arctic methane: the ocean itself. The high concentrations of the greenhouse gas recorded in the air above

    Arctic methane
  • 'US greenhouse gas output rose 3.2% in 2010'

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    Washington: U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose 3.2 percent in 2010 from the previous year amid economic growth and higher electricity demand from high summer temperatures, the Environmental Protection

    Environmental Protection Agency
  • Efforts to preserve endangered butterflies in Butterfly Valley

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    Numaligarh (Assam): With a view to providing a proper home to butterflies in the unique Butterfly Valley in Assam's Golaghat district, especially the endangered varieties, the North East Institute of

    Butterfly
  • Social ranking can influence genetic functions

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    Washington: A female monkey's higher ranking within her group can alter the functioning of nearly 1,000 genes within mere weeks, also boosting their immune system, says a new study. "We were able

    Monkeys
  • Vanishing 'sacred groves' of Meghalaya

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    Shillong: Patches of forest measuring anywhere between 0.1 hectare to 1200 hectares and which are bio-diversity hot spots have been unique to Meghalaya for centuries, but now they are falling into dis

    Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India
  • Indian student wins YouTube Space Lab Asia-Pacific contest

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    WASHINGTON: India's Sachin S Kukke is the Asia-Pacific region winner and one of the six global winners of the YouTube Space Lab 2012 contest for young people to design experiments that could be perfor

    YouTube Space Lab Asia
  • 'Greenhouse gases to cost $2 trillion a year in damage to oceans'

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    Paris: Greenhouse gases are on track for inflicting costs of nearly USD 2 trillion annually in damage to the oceans by 2100, according to a Swedish study published today. The estimate by the Stoc

    damage to oceans by green house gases gases
  • Mysterious object seen refuelling from Sun

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    London: An orbiting NASA space telescope has captured the footage of a planet-sized object flying close to the sun, and extending a "refuelling tube" into the sun's surface. The black orb later f

    mysterious object seen raising from sun
  • FAO Tea summit agrees on scope of climate change discussions

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    The FAO session on Tea has agreed on what discussion on climate change can be taken up for discussions here. The 20th session of the FAO has drawn up scope and the terms of reference of the climate ch

    The FAO session on Tea
  • 18 new Jupiter-like planets discovered

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    Washington: Using twin telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, astronomers have discovered 18 new Jupiter-like planets orbiting massive stars. Researchers at the California Institute of Tec

    planets discovered

 
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 Curiosity Rover
 
Washington: In yet another landmark achievement, NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and back. In spoken words radioed to
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larger body mass
 
Washington: Bigger isn't always better -- at least when it comes to the sprinting speed of animals, says a new study by Harvard University. "Typically, bigger animals tend to run faster than smalle
Read More »
 
Arctic methane
 
London: The researchers have uncovered a surprising and potentially important new source of Arctic methane: the ocean itself. The high concentrations of the greenhouse gas recorded in the air above
Read More »