SCIENCE & RESEARCH

Plants don’t improve indoor air quality but cut outdoor pollution, latest studies show

6:11 pm November 7, 2019

New Delhi: As large parts of north India grapple with dangerous levels of smog, two new global studies seek to settle the debate on effective ‘green’ antidotes — one concluding that potted plants don’t affect indoor air quality and the other affirming that trees near factories and other pollution sources reduce outdoor air pollution. A […]

Global warming to cause 'catastrophic' species loss: study

Global warming causing wild animals to give birth earlier: Study

1:52 pm November 6, 2019

London: Researchers have found some of the first evidence that global warming is causing wild animals to give birth earlier in the year, a discovery that sheds more light on the impact of the climate crisis on wildlife. The researchers, including those from the University of Edinburgh in the UK and the Australian National University, […]

Prenatal pollution exposure linked to reduced heart stress response in infants: Study

3:08 pm October 30, 2019

New York: Exposure of mothers to particulate air pollution during pregnancy is linked to reduced heart response to stress in their six-month-old infants, according to a study which may lead to better prenatal care guidelines. The study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that particulate air pollution exposure before birth may affect heart […]

Climate change drove early human species to extinction, study says

Humanity’s homeland found in ancient Botswana

11:50 pm October 28, 2019

Paris: Modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago in a region of northern Botswana, scientists claimed Monday, in what appeared to be the most precise location of mankind’s “ancestral homeland” yet discovered. While it has long been known anatomically modern humans – homo sapiens sapiens – originated in Africa, scientists have until now been unable to […]

Marine fungi with unconventional reproduction cycles found: Study

8:09 pm October 28, 2019

Boston : In a first, researchers have probed into the diversity and reproduction cycles of previously unstudied species of marine fungi, shedding more light on this branch of organisms. The scientists, including those from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in the US, said that marine fungi have long been overlooked in the research community, despite […]