Month: January 2019

Pichavaram mangrove forest, Kollidam river, Vellar river, Cuddalore, Chidambaram, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Irula tribe, scheduled tribe, MG Ramachandran, 2004 tsunami, climate change, sea level rise, sedimentation, freshwater, fishing, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute,

They Helped the Forest Grow. But in the Face of Climate Change, They’re Helpless.

Nidhi Jamwal 19/01/2019

The Pichavaram mangrove forest near Chidambaram, Cuddalore, is the...

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10 Feared Dead in Khardung La Avalanche, Rescue Operations Underway

"The two trucks, carrying ten civilians, came under an...

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Strongest Opponents of GMO Understand It the Least: Study

The Wire Staff 18/01/2019

Those who strongly opposed GMOs also overrated their own...

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Draft Patents Rules Undermine Safeguards Against Frivolous Patents

K.M. Gopakumar 18/01/2019

The government’s new proposals on patents may increase frivolous...

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Lab-Grown Meat Could Lead to the Next Agricultural Revolution

Devang Mehta 18/01/2019

Cultured meat would require less land, less water and...

impact crater, asteroids, meteors, meteorites, lunar craters, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA LRO, dinosaurs, extinction event, mass extinction, Mount Everest, Permian Triassic extinction event, Solar System, Moon, 'Oumuamua, kimberlite pipes, Yarkovsky effect, inner asteroid belt,

Long Ago, the Number of Meteors Hitting Earth Spiked Suddenly – and Didn’t Stop

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/01/2019

Something happened in the Solar System about 300 million...

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Compensation Clause for Clinical Trial Participants Should Remain: Health Observers

The Wire Staff 17/01/2019

The drug controller has decided to remove the clause...