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June 28, 2024 5:08 PM

Bornean elephants endangered due to human activity, wildlife experts say

Agriculture, mining, logging and other human activities on Borneo have caused elephants living on the Southeast Asian island to become endangered, an assessment by wildlife experts published on Thursday found. There are around 1,000 Bornean elephant...

June 28, 2024 5:08 PM

Dire need to combat drug addiction, only one in 11 addicted get treatment: UNDOC

Highlighting the dire need to combat drug addiction, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime stated that there is a concerning rise in global drug use and the emergence of potent new synthetic opioids. Synthetic opioids are substances synthesiz...

June 27, 2024 10:42 PM

Genome study deepens mystery of what doomed Earth’s last mammoths

About 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth's woolly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean island off the coast of Siberia, a melancholy end to one of the world's charismatic Ice Age animals. But what doomed this last mammoth population on Wrangel ...

June 26, 2024 5:31 PM

Investors join forces to push for policy action on nature loss

A group of more than 200 investors on Wednesday backed a plan to start talks with 60 companies over biodiversity, focusing on those active in countries with ecosystems at risk of forest loss and land degradation. The Spring initiative comes ahea...

June 25, 2024 1:17 PM

China’s Chang’e-6 moon probe lands back on Earth

China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe landed on Tuesday in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, making the country the first to bring back samples from the moon's far side. The reentry capsule touched down at 2:07 p.m. Beijing time (0607 GMT), acc...

June 24, 2024 3:51 PM

Russia is revising its nuclear doctrine, Kremlin says

Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, has started updating its nuclear doctrine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday (June 24), citing an earlier statement by President Vladimir Putin. "President Putin has said that work is under...

June 23, 2024 4:15 PM

Indian temple uses lifelike robotic elephant for rituals to prevent cruelty

A temple in Kerala on Saturday (June 22) introduced a lifelike robotic elephant to be used in rituals in an effort to prevent animal cruelty. The mechanical elephant was donated by the animal rights group PETA to the Pournamikavu Temple in Thiruvana...

June 20, 2024 5:15 PM

New freshwater diatom genus discovered from the Eastern and Western Ghats

Researchers from the Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) in Pune have discovered a new genus of diatoms in the unpolluted waters of the Eastern Ghats mountain range. Diatoms are microscopic algae that play a crucial role in our everyday lives, produci...

June 19, 2024 11:55 AM

Heatwave to continue over many parts of North India Wednesday, gradually abate

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that heatwave to severe heatwave conditions are likely to continue over many parts of North India during Wednesday and gradually abate thereafter due to an approaching western disturbance towards northwe...

June 19, 2024 12:27 PM

Scientists witness a dormant supermassive black hole roar to life

At the center of the Milky Way galaxy resides a supermassive black hole four million times the mass of our sun called Sagittarius A* that some scientists have called a gentle giant because of its quiescence. But someday it could become a beast. Rese...

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