Year: 2018

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Is Not Home Chore: A Wake-Up Call That Mindsets Need to Change

Priti Mahara 15/12/2018

To say that the social attitude towards breastfeeding needs...

Cyclone Gaja, Cauvery delta, paddy crop, rice cultivation, cottage industries, kuruvai, Cauvery river, Cauvery dispute, coconut groves, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Chennai, Cuddalore, Chidambaram, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Chola Empire, Harichandra river, farmer suicides, farmers march, Tamil Nadu

Cyclone Gaja Was a National Disaster – Don’t Let State Apathy Suggest Otherwise

Poonkuzhali and Kavin Malar 15/12/2018

If Gaja is treated – and dismissed – as...

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Govt Plan to Restrict Life-Saving Oxytocin Hormone Dashed by Delhi High Court

Anoo Bhuyan 14/12/2018

The Delhi high court said that the government’s decision...

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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Advances Space Tourism With Successful Test

Eric M. Johnson 14/12/2018

Over 600 people have paid or put down deposits...

termites, methane, greenhouse gases, methanotrophic bacteria, methane, global warming, soil nutrients, gas exchange, argon, difluoromethane, carbon-12, carbon-13, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Darwin, pests,

Termite Mounds Filter the Methane Their Termites Produce

Lalitha Krishnan 14/12/2018

An experiment revealed that more methane was going into...

protected areas, snow leopard, Spiti, pastoral communities, Kashmiri wool, World Wildlife Fund, livestock, free-ranging dogs, human-wildlife conflict, livestock, habitat degradation, Namdapha, Dihang Dibang, Bogibeel Bridge, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, climate change,

The Government Can’t Help the Northeast Without Also Helping the Snow Leopard

Rishika Pardikar 13/12/2018

The Himalayan region is home to numerous endemic species...

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NASA Deep Space Probe Finds Signs of Water on Nearby Asteroid

Reuters 12/12/2018

Scientists believe asteroids and comets crashing into early Earth...