Environment
- Recycling- A 13,000 Year Old Tradition
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Humans of the Upper Palaeolithic Age recycled and repurposed their stone artifacts to be put to other uses, according to a group of anthropologists after examining burnt artifacts found in the Molí del Salt site in Tarragona, Spain. How could they make ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2012 - 9:56am
- Biodiversity: How do you define it?
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Starting from point mutations and gene mutations to chromosomal aberrations, molecular markers, to cultivars, species and genera and phyla, all living organisms make biodiversity of an area. ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 21 2012 - 10:11pm
- Pesticides: Probably Less Scary Than You Imagine
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Article - Steve Savage - Sep 24 2012 - 9:42pm
- Biodiversity conservation: Cryopreservation.
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In his book Essay on population Malthus’s 1798 predicted that population growth will soon outpace food production. Ecologist Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 wrote in his book: The Population Bomb predicted that the world will undergo famines in 1970s, hundreds ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 24 2012 - 5:48am
- Biotechnology and its applications for benefit of mankind..
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"Sustainable agriculture" is as articulated in the 1990"Farm Bill" Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990,P.L. ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 25 2012 - 5:56am
- Do You Choose Organic Food Or Green Energy?
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Which do you love more, organic food or green energy? Because you may have to choose. Oregon is the site of a conflict between food and energy, though it is a state that claims it loves both- but the people who love each primarily do so because it makes t ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 25 2012 - 6:11am
- Superweeds And Herbicide Use Have Gone Up, Not Down, In GM Era, Says New Estimate
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A new study says that the use of herbicides in the production of three genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops, cotton, soybeans and corn, has gone up rather than down. The counterintuitive estimate is based on an analysis of publicly available data ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2012 - 9:48am
- When Increased Pesticide Use Is A Good Thing
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A recent study published in Environmental Sciences Europe has attracted attention because it documents a net increase in pesticide use on genetically engineered crops in the US. The author, Chuck Benbrook, is certainly qualified to consider pesticide issu ...
Article - Steve Savage - Jun 19 2013 - 2:43pm
- Greenland: The Perfect Place To Study Antibiotic Contamination
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Greenland has areas of very clean water, the like of which just does not exist in developed nations, but also highly polluted water, making it an excellent location for studying the environmental impacts of chemicals More than 10,000 tons of antibiotics a ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2012 - 11:00am
- Biodiversity conservation is a global issue but has to be tackled at local level.
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Hyderabad conference on biodiversity is excellent opportunity on resource mobilisation. With over 180 participating countries Prime Minister of India hopes for a "positive outcome". India became the first champion of the Hyderabad pledge to an ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 17 2012 - 11:34am
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