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“Oceans and climate are linked to each other. Far from the static, Atlantic Ocean contributes a lot to climate change,” shared Prof A D Singh, department of geology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He has returned recently from an ocean expedition to Atlantic Ocean. Singh, who was invited by the Unites States Implementing Organisation (USIO) through [...]
Perhaps the notion of a “normal” winter or any other season is nothing more than an artifice to protect us from the taunts of the weather gods. Normal, we discover, is not a constant. It changes with where you live and how long you have lived. My formative years in England brought February walks alongside [...]
A 15-km (10 mile) stretch of crisp white beach is one of the key battlegrounds in Singapore’s campaign to defend its hard-won territory against rising sea levels linked to climate change. Stone breakwaters are being enlarged on the low-lying island state’s man-made east coast and their heights raised. Barges carrying imported sand top up the [...]
Fillet of dolphin? Polar bear steak? As world population increases, people in coastal poverty-stricken areas are turning to the ocean for their meals, consuming marine mammals such as dolphins and seals, new research suggests. Since 1990, at least 87 species of marine mammals — including dolphins, porpoises and manatees — have been served up in [...]
Birds don’t have to bother about overcrowded roads, but they do stick to a speed limit to avoid hitting trees or other objects. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believe their findings could help the military fly unmanned drones as fast as possible without crashing. They looked at birds such as the daredevil [...]
US researchers say they have created the world’s first genetically modified monkeys by merging cells from up to six different embryos, in what could be a big advance for medical research. Until now, rodents have been the primary creatures used to make chimeras, a lab animal produced by combining two or more fertilised eggs or [...]
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