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Washington, Mar 19 (ANI): A society with a large number of people uses punishment to enforce norms, while the same does not hold true for societies with lower population, where everybody knows each other, claims a study.
The new study co-authored by University of California, Davis, anthropologist Richard McElreath suggests that the cooperative nature of each [...]

A nine-year moratorium on the ivory trade will be challenged at a United Nations-led meeting of 175 countries starting in Doha today.
Tanzania and Zambia have put in a proposal to down-list local populations of elephants to allow new stockpile sales of ivory.
The European Union was instrumental in securing a nine-year moratorium on the trade.
But Vera [...]

Greens MP Ian Cohen says the state departments of planning and environment are at odds over a controversial Tweed Coast development.
Mr Cohen says documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show the planning department ignored concerns about local koala and long-nosed potoroo populations near Kings Forest.
He says the documents were dated the 31st of [...]

London, August 29 (ANI): UN has warned against the spread of the H1N1 virus after turkeys on farms in Chile were found infected by the disease.

The United Nations suggested the possibility that poultry farms elsewhere in the world may also be affected.

Chilean authorities reported two affected poultry farms near the seaport of Valparaiso and had [...]

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 [...]

Washington, July 7 (ANI): In a new research, a team of scientists is studying birds by using DNA in their feathers to track their movements and habits, a technique that may help prevent injuries to birds.

The research is being done by Andrew DeWoody, associate professor of forestry and natural resources, Purdue University, and his team.

DeWoody’s [...]

Crete Earthquake – Crete – Greece Earthquake – 6.7 Earthquake Crete, Greece on July 1 2009
A powerful earthquake of 6.7 on Richter Scale has struck just south of Island of Crete in Greece. The earthquake struck at 34.188°N, 25.426°E location.
The Crete Earthquake struck at 12:30 p.m. local time in Greece, the USGS said. The 6.7 [...]

Washington, June 20 (ANI): Keeping your teeth brushed and flossed can help preserve memory, say researchers.

The study at West Virginia University has found a link between gum disease and memory loss.

“Older people might want to know there’s more reason to keep their mouths clean – to brush and floss – than ever,” said Richard Crout, [...]

Washington, May 13 (IANS) The US is rushing an initial $5 million in emergency aid to Pakistan to help people uprooted by the fighting against extremists, according to the State Department.
The US had urged the Pakistanis to launch the military action that in recent days has driven hundreds of thousands of people from their villages.
The [...]

London, April 10 (ANI): A study has revealed what a snake eats affects the strength of its venom, suggesting that anti-venom can be developed specific to a certain snake’s location or diet.

Axel Barlow, a Bangor university student, says that his finding is particularly based on his studies into saw-scaled vipers, which have evolved to eat [...]

London, Mar.12 (ANI): Nine nations-India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, the US, Congo, Tanzania, China and Bangladesh will be majority contributors to the world’s population that will hit seven billion by the early part of 2012 and will top nine billion in 2050, according to a UN estimate.

Hania [...]

Brussels – A row over VAT rates on nappies looked set to get dirty on Wednesday as the European Union’s executive said it would have to discipline five countries for levying too little tax on disposable diapers.
“Sooner or later, the European Commission has to go ahead with those infringement (proceedings) and ask the (European) court [...]

London, March 9 (ANI): Climatologists have warned that rising sea levels caused by global warming could destroy the Norfolk Broads and Thames Estuary in the UK within a hundred years.

According to a report in the Telegraph, low-lying areas of the UK are under threat because the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting faster than [...]

Washington, Mar 3 (ANI): It’s the scent of a male moth’s pheromones that attracts a female towards him, according to a new study.

After an analysis of the pheromones used by the European Corn Borer (ECB, Ostrinia nubilalis), a group of [...]

Washington, Feb 06 (ANI): Screen legend-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has written an open letter to the French president Nicolas Sarkozy asking him to ban seal products.

Bardot is angry with laws that allow seal hunting, insisting the creatures are treated cruelly in the production of meat, oils and pelts.

And therefore, the French star has [...]

Washington, Feb 5 (ANI): Predatory crabs are poised to return to warming Antarctic waters and disrupt the primeval marine communities, a major upheaval that is a result of global warming.

“Nowhere else than in these ecosystems do giant sea spiders and marine pillbugs share the ocean bottom with fish that have antifreeze proteins in their [...]

Yangon – The European Commission has agreed to provide 40.5 million euros (52.4 million dollars) in humanitarian aid to Myanmar this year, with some of it aimed at assisting the Rohingya Muslims who are living “in terrible conditions,” officials said Tuesday.
Of the 40.5 million euros allocated, some 22 million will go to assisting communities hard [...]

Brussels – European Union Aid Commissioner Louis Michel said Tuesday he planned to travel on a humanitarian mission to Gaza and Israel later this week.
In a statement, Michel said the purpose of his two-day visit would be to “see for myself the suffering of the civilian populations in both Gaza and southern Israel.”
The commissioner, who [...]

London, Jan.9 (ANI): A senior aide to the Pope has termed Gaza as “a big concentration camp”, thereby igniting a serious diplomatic rift between the Vatican and Tel Aviv.
“Defenceless populations are always the ones who pay. Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration camp,” President of the [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Scientists already know that the annoying buzz of a mosquito is the sound of love. But now, a new study has shown that males and females flap their wings and change their tune to create a harmonic duet just before mating.
For the study, Cornell University researchers recorded mosquito sound to study [...]