New research reveals that cultural tolerance and political pressure, rather than just biological science, dictate the life or death of tigers in India and wolves in Germany.
Tiny RNA lost during domestication created robust rice varieties, shows study by NCBS, Bengaluru.
Researchers from the USA, Australia and Canada identified some of the ‘hotspots’ and ‘coolspots’ of human activities in the world and analysed the impact of these activities on threatened and near-threatened wildlife.
जगभरातील संशोधक शहरीकरणामुळे जैवविविधतेवर होणार्या दुष्प्रभावाबाबत लेख लिहित असतानाच असे लक्षात आले आहे की या शहरीकरणाच्या विळख्यातून पक्षी देखील सुटलेले नाहीत.
Researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute, University of Washington, USA, and Oklahoma State University, USA, have reported the economic losses and associated health risk caused by stubble burning in some parts of north India.
Today’s world has more adolescents—children in the age group of 10-24 years—than ever in history. Of the 1.8 billion adolescents, a third of them, or 622 million, live in India and China. With this fraction of people growing up to be future citizens, are we doing enough to have their needs met?
ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಅಶೋಕ ಟ್ರಸ್ಟ್ನ ಡಾ. ರವಿಕಾಂತ್ ಮತ್ತು ಅವರ ಸಹೋದ್ಯೋಗಿಗಳು ನಾರ್ವೆಯ ಓಸ್ಲೋ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದ ಸಂಶೋಧಕರ ಸಹಯೋಗದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಹೊಸ ಅಧ್ಯಯನವೊಂದರಲ್ಲಿ, ಗಾರ್ಸಿನಿಯಾ ಅಥವಾ ಪುನರ್ಪುಳಿ ಹಣ್ಣುಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಅವುಗಳಿಂದ ತಯಾರಿಸುವ ಪೂರಕ ಆಹಾರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕಲಬೆರಕೆಯಿರುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಕೇಂದ್ರೀಕರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
Researchers at IIT Kanpur show that increasing the levels of specific microRNAs reduce the progression of prostate cancer.
An international collaboration of researchers, including two from IISc Bengaluru, have described a new starry frog Astrobatrachus kurichiyana from the Western Ghats.
Oryza sativa, or rice, is the staple food of more than half the world’s population and supports the livelihoods of around 145 million households. Since its domestication thousands of years ago, rice has played an essential role in shaping civilisations.
An international team of researchers from India, Spain, Nepal, Myanmar, Italy and Germany have examined how climate change and human activities are affect the distribution of the Asian elephants in India and Nepal.