Month: February 2020

2019 nCoV, Huanan wet market, Wuhan city, Hubei province, China, World Health Organisation, Novartis, global health emergency, Kerala, Thrissur, coronavirus, 2019 novel coronavirus, SARS, MERS, influenza, bats,

Philippines Reports First Coronavirus Death Outside China

Ryan Woo and Enrico Dela Cruz 02/02/2020

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China had reached 304 as of the...

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Coronavirus in India: Second Case Reported in Kerala

The first novel coronavirus case was also reported from...

2019 nCoV, 2019 novel coronavirus, Wuhan coronavirus, meat eating, cattle rearing, livestock, climate change, greenhouse gases, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide, methane, UN FAO, US CDC, MERS, SARS, Huanan wet market, Huana seafood market, Wuhan city, Hubei province, cow vigilantism, cow vigilante, lynch mobs, lynching,

‘No Meat, No Coronavirus’ Makes No Sense

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/02/2020

Meat-eating has become more problematic of late on two...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, cosmology, astronomy, colonialism, Mauna Kea, Thirty Meter Telescope, Native Hawaiians, Hawaii, Mauna Kea observatories, Keck telescopes, SpaceX, Starlink mega-constellation, Kitt Peak, colonialism, New York Times, Mauna a Wakea, Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar, Supreme Court of Hawaii, United States of America, imperialism, Arizona,

Astronomers May Not Like It but Astronomy and Colonialism Have a Shared History

Nithyanand Rao 02/02/2020

Casting Native Hawai'ians' opposition to the Thirty Meter Telescope...

Department of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, QuEST, quantum computing, Indian quantum computing, 3D printing, internet of things, artificial intelligence, data is the new oil, #Budget2020, 2020 union budget, R&D, Department of Space, Chandrayaan 3, Gaganyaan, human spaceflight, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, Aditya L1, Renu Swarup, quantum cryptography,

Budget 2020: Scientific Depts. Get 8% Hike, Much More for ‘Disruptive’ Tech

T.V. Padma 02/02/2020

The two largest R&D projects in the new budget...

Ramsar Convention, Ramsar site, World Wetlands Day, wetlands, Deepor Beel, urbanisation, urban development, Kolleru Lake, Sarus cranes, black-necked storks, National Wetlands Atlas of India, Prakash Javadekar, Nandur Madhmeshwar bird sanctuary, Beas Conservation Reserve, Wetlands International South Asia, Surajpur wetland, National Green Tribunal,

World Wetlands Day: What Is a Wetland, and Why Does India Need so Many?

Nivedita Khandekar 02/02/2020

Wetlands are typically shallow so sunlight can penetrate the...

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As Coronavirus Misinformation Spreads on Social Media, Facebook Removes Posts

Reuters 01/02/2020

The move is being seen as unusually aggressive for...