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Farmers protest against Hydro Power Project in Himachal
Rampur (HP), Sept 18 (ANI): Hundreds of residents and farmers here protested against the construction of run-of-river hydropower plant project on the river Satluj.
The campaigners called for Save Satluj drive and complained that the hydropower plant would disturb the ecological balance [...]
WII to host global deer conservation meet in Srinagar next month
Srinagar, Sep 16 (ANI): The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is hosting a five day global meeting of the deer experts here-from October 9 to discuss conservation plans for the Hangul, which is also known as Kashmir Stag.
The meeting is also expected to chalk out a long-term effective management plan for the conservation of Hangul [...]
Study on sheep shows link between personality, survival, and reproductive success
Washington, September 16 (ANI): Canadian researchers have established a link between personality, survival, and reproductive success by carrying out a study on male bighorn sheep.
Denis Reale, a professor in the Department [...]
How females control sperm storage to pick the best dad
Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): University of Exeter researchers have found new evidence to explain how female insects can influence the father of their offspring, even after mating with up to ten males.
In the study, boffins found that female crickets are able to control the amount of sperm that they store from each mate to [...]
Uttarakhand women earn a living out of forest produce
Chamoli (Uttrakhand), Sep 8 (ANI): Women of Chamoli district in Uttarakhand are rolling out herbal incense sticks and coal under the guidance of the district’s forest department.
They have formed various self-help groups to reap profits out of herbal environment friendly incense sticks and coal from leaves.
Aranyam, an eco and herbal centre [...]
World’s smallest satellite tags to track rare Kittlitz’s Murrelet seabirds
Washington, September 6 (ANI): Scientists have attached the world’s smallest satellite tags to the members of the rare and rapidly declining Kittlitz’s Murrelet seabirds, in order to track them.
Most of these birds are found in remote, glaciated regions of Alaska, but their wintering grounds have long been unknown.
Thanks to tiny solar-powered satellites tags that [...]
Climate change mitigation strategies ignore carbon cycling processes of inland waters
Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): In a new report, scientists have determined that climate change mitigation strategies ignore carbon cycling processes of inland waters.
Scientists from the University of Vienna, Uppsala University in Sweden, University of Antwerp, and the US [...]
Newspapers, other media lead entrepreneurs astray
Washington, Aug 27 (ANI): Entrepreneurs should remain wary of what they read in newspapers and other written sources, for they might lead them off track, according to University of California researchers.
Dr. Susan Glover said that public information from both informal and written sources, like newspapers, lead entrepreneurs astray.
In a study Glover took as an [...]
World’s largest bats on the verge of extinction in Peninsular Malaysia due to hunting
Washington, August 26 (ANI): The world’s largest species of fruit bat, Pteropus vampyrus, could be driven to extinction in Peninsular Malaysia at the current hunting rate, scientists have warned.
They say that around 22,000 of these bats, also known as “large flying fox”, are legally [...]
Global warming threatens existence of tropical species
Washington, August 26 (ANI): A new research has determined that global warming threatens the existence of tropical species, the ecosystem and its by-products.
The research was done by herpetologist Laurie Vitt, curator of reptiles and George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma’s Sam Noble Museum of Natural History.
Vitt has studied [...]
Some Aussie frogs raise pitch of love songs to counter traffic noise
Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): Some Aussie frogs often raise their pitch as they serenade their partners, in order to counter traffic sounds, according to a study.
Kirsten Parris, an ecologist at the University of Melbourne, says that one species of frog in Melbourne is changing the pitch of its love song to be heard above [...]
Amphibians like to mate under a full Moon
London, July 14 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that amphibians around the world synchronize their mating activity by the full Moon.
According to a report by BBC News, this global phenomenon has never been noticed before, but frogs, toads and newts all like to mate by moonlight.
The animals use the lunar cycle to co-ordinate their gatherings, ensuring [...]
Global warming may spell demise of key salt marsh constituent
Washington, July 14 (ANI): A new research has shown that global warming may exact a toll on salt marshes in New England, with one key constituent of marshes being especially endangered.
Pannes are waterlogged, low-oxygen zones of salt marshes.
According to Keryn Gedan, a graduate student and salt marsh expert at Brown University, despite the stresses [...]
Male seahorses prefer large females
Washington, July 8 (ANI): Swiss scientists have found that male seahorses have a strong preference for large females when it comes to selecting a mating partner.
According to Beat Mattle and Tony Wilson from the Zoological Museum at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, by being choosy and preferring large females, they are likely to have [...]
Scientists use genetic engineering to make virus-resistant grapevines
Washington, July 3 (ANI): Scientists are making certain plants resistant to the “Grapevine fanleaf virus” GFLV by genetic engineering.
Extremely hot or rainy periods can destroy entire crops, not to mention the wide variety of pests that can appear on the scene.
Bugs [...]
Plants saved planet Earth from freezing over during last ice age
Washington, July 2 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have suggested that plants may have played a crucial role in putting a limit on the last ice age.
When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth’s surface during the last ice age, the planet did not freeze over entirely.
This has been a puzzle to climate scientists [...]
Energy intake reaches a limit despite abundant food supply
Washington, July 1 (ANI): Contradicting Charles Darwin’s theory, scientists have now shown that despite abundant food supply, energy intake reaches a limit even in animals with high nutrient demands, such as lactating females.
Darwin and his contemporaries postulated that food consumption in birds and mammals was limited [...]
A thirst for blood sparks toxic algal blooms
Washington, July 1 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden have suggested that toxic algal blooms are created when aggressive algae kill and injure their competitors in order to absorb the nutrients they contain.
“The behaviour of the algae can be compared to that of blood-sucking insects,” said Per Jonsson of the Department of [...]
Good male seed beetles make for bad dads
Washington, June 26 (ANI): A new study on seed beetles has shown that, contrary to predictions, males of high genetic quality are not very successful when it comes to fertilizing eggs.
The study, conducted by Swedish and Danish scientists Goran Arnqvist and Trine Bilde, found that [...]
Fire destroys large forest cover in Kashmir
Manjakote (J-K), June 25 (ANI): A massive fire has engulfed a large forest area in Jammu and Kashmir, destroying trees and posing threat to nomadic tribes living near the forest.
The fire, which has been raging for past two days in Rajouri areas, has caused damage to the region’s ecology.
The forest authorities have sought the [...]
