The most efficient way to clean up ocean plastics and avoid harming ecosystems is to place plastic collectors near coasts, according to a new study. Plastic floating in the oceans is a widespread and increasing problem. Plastics including bags, bottle caps and plastic fibres from synthetic clothes wash out into the oceans from urban rivers, […]
Reduced meat consumption might not lower greenhouse gas emissions from a major beef producing region, research shows. The finding may seem incongruous, as intensive agriculture is responsible for such a large proportion of global emissions. According to research by University researchers, Scotland’s Rural College and Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, reducing beef production in the Brazilian […]
Forest conservator of north Kumaon Prem Kumar told TOI that in the year 2014-15, 13 of 24 leopard deaths in the four hill districts of the region — Almora, Bageshwar, Champawat and Pithoragarh — occurred because of pneumonia. In the first nine months of this financial year, until December 31, 2015, 25 leopards have died. […]
Soil frost is a nearly universal process in the Arctic. In a recent dissertation by doctoral student Marina Becher at Umeå University, it is shown that the frequency and extent of soil frost is important for the release of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from arctic soil. Soil in the Arctic has for thousands of […]
জীববৈচিত্র্য আর পরিবেশের ভারসাম্য বজায় রাখতে গাছ রক্ষার তাগিদ দিয়েছেন পরিবেশবাদিরা। বোটানিক্যাল গার্ডেনের গাছে গাছে নাম ফলক স্থাপন ও গাছ চেনানো কর্মসূচিতে গাছের উপকারিতার বিষয় পাঠ্য পুস্তকে অন্তর্ভূক্ত করে সচেতনতা বাড়ানোর আহ্বান জানানো হয়েছে। শুধু অক্সিজেন নয় তাপমাত্রা নিয়ন্ত্রণে রাখতেও ভূমিকা রাখে গাছ। ঢাকা শহরে গাছের সংখ্যা কমে যাওয়ায় শীত কমে গরম বেড়েছে। খাদ্য সংকটে […]
University of Utah lab experiments found that when temperatures get warmer, woodrats suffer a reduced ability to live on their normal diet of toxic creosote – suggesting that global warming may hurt plant-eating animals. “This study adds to our understanding of how climate change may affect mammals, in that their ability to consume dietary toxins […]
ilways minister Suresh Prabhu has outlined various environment-friendly measures being taken by the public transporter to provide low cost sustainable transportation to the country.Speaking at the World Bank Conference in Washington, Prabhu underlined that any sustainable transport solution has to be economically viable, socially equitable and environmentally friendly.“The Indian Railways has embarked on transforming its […]
Low raw material costs have dealt a heavy blow to the recycling industry. The French recycling federation (FEDEREC) believes the sector needs a complete overhaul to stay afloat in the coming years. FEDEREC published its view of the future of recycling in a white paper entitled “The recycling industry by 2030.” In the preface to this […]
The Peruvian Amazon is home to one of the region’s most breath-taking and iconic creatures, the macaw. Since the 1960s, the number of the brightly-coloured rainforest birds has severely declined. There are 16 macaw species, down from 20, left in the wild today and all the remaining species populations are in decline due to deforestation and […]
Lions are getting pregnant and the waterbuck population is soaring at one of Mozambique’s main national parks, once the scene of fighting during a civil war which virtually wiped out the park’s lions, elephants and many other species. The 15-year conflict that killed up to 1 million people ended in 1992, and some former battlefield foes […]
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