Month: April 2019

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Despite Getting a Mastectomy, Pragya Thakur Advocates Cow Urine as a Cure for Cancer

The Wire Staff 26/04/2019

While the BJP candidate from Bhopal claims cow urine...

Malaria is rampant in the area and the number of cases is more than the last years. Credit: Reuters

Landmark Malaria Vaccine Set to Rollout in Malawi

The Wire Staff 26/04/2019

Experts who have argued that the low levels of...

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What a Deleted Profile Tells Us About Wikipedia’s Diversity Problem

Claire Jarvis 26/04/2019

Clarice Phelps may have been the first African-American woman...

$Cauvery basin, Cauvery delta, hydrocarbon extraction, seismic survey, airgun, produced water, heavy metal contamination, offshore drilling, Neduvasal, zooplankton, humpback whale, Minke whale, beluga, bearded seal, bowhead whale, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, proppant sand, aluminium silicate, nonylphenol ethoxylate, methylisothiazolinone, neurotoxic, genotoxic, boron, phenol formaldehyde resins, glyoxal, isotridecanol ethoxylate, TNPCB, Sterlite copper smelter, Vedanta Sterlite, Thoothukudi protest, ONGC,$

Environmentally, India’s Hydrocarbon Sector Enjoys a Regulatory Free-for-all

Nityanand Jayaraman 26/04/2019

An environmental clearance granted for exploration of shale oil...

NASA, DLR, SOFIA observatory, helium hydride, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, dawn of chemistry, Big Bang, strongest acid, NGC 7027, planetary nebula, GREAT instrument, infrared spectrometry, far infrared, helium, hydrogen ion,

Scientists Finally Discover Helium Hydride Molecules in Space

Mywish Anand 25/04/2019

Helium hydride is thought to be the first molecule...

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How Higher Temperatures and Pollution Are Affecting Mosquitoes

Shüné Oliver 25/04/2019

Polluting activities are resulting in malaria-transmitting mosquitoes expanding into...

BR hills, Doyang reservoir, Adivasis, forest management, Forest Rights Act, fortress conservation, clientelism, Jenu Kuruba, protected areas, forest rights, bureaucracy, human-animal conflicts, human-wildlife conflicts, wildlife encroachment, Nagaland, Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Bandipur National Park,

When We Speak of Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Who Are the Humans?

Nithila Baskaran, Shiv Ganesh and Kashika Sharma 25/04/2019

It would do all of us concerned about the...