Month: October 2016

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How a Hunting Boom Left the Amazon Basin With ‘Empty Rivers’

Carlos Peres, Andre Pinassi Antunes and Glenn Shepard Jr 16/10/2016

The fashion for wild animal skins and furs drove...

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Beyond the Spin, Here Are India’s Gains and Losses at the Montreal Protocol Negotiations

Nitin Sethi 16/10/2016

India won some and suffered some economically consequential losses...

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Why a Lack of Sleep Makes Us Depressed…And What We Can Do About It

Alice M. Gregory 16/10/2016

Lie awake and you could be playing havoc with...

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Climate Change and the Boatman

Teresa Rehman 15/10/2016

Traditional boatmen and boat builders on the Brahmaputra are...

HFC-23 is a by-product of HCFC-22, which is used in refrigeration and air conditioning. It has a global warming potential 14,800 times more than that of carbon dioxide. Credit: zeevveez/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

India Vows to Kill Super-Greenhouse Gas

Soumya Sarkar 15/10/2016

The new Indian law requires the five Indian firms...

39 tourists swabbed door handles in 136 airports around 59 countries, finding that a deadly bug resistant to antimicrobial drugs and known to exist in India also exists in Paris, where it is rare. Credit: limaoscarjuliet/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

How Researchers Found That Tourists Accidentally Carried a Superbug from India to Paris

K.S. Parthasarathy 15/10/2016

MRSA develops resistance fast enough to keep specialists developing...

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Why ‘Asgardia’ Is More Likely to Be a Pie in the Sky Than a Nation in Space

Monica Grady 15/10/2016

Asgardia is calling for unrestricted research but history has...