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Climate change threatens rice production
Rice Today’s October-December 2009 edition focuses on climate change and its potential impact on rice. It reveals that it is difficult to prove climate change is responsible for current weather events...
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Read moreHundreds of New Species Discovered in Fragile Eastern Himalayas
Over 350 new species including the world’s second smallest deer, a “flying frog” and a 100 million-year old gecko have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a biological treasure trove now threate...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreScientists Assess the 2008 Myanmar Cyclone Disaster
The information – which may be the first reliable measurements of cyclone damage in the area – could lead to development of computer models for predicting how future storms may impact the geologically...
Earth Sciences | Read moreElephant-size loopholes sustain Thai ivory trade
The report also raises concerns that legal provisions governing trade in domesticated elephants are providing cover for illegal trade in wild-caught, highly-endangered Asian elephants from both Thaila...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreDiscovery in amber reveals ancient biology of termites
The findings were made by George Poinar, an Oregon State University researcher and international expert on life forms found in amber. It was just published in Parasites and Vectors, a professional jou...
Life Sciences | Read moreNASA experiment stirs up hope for forecasting deadliest cyclones
About 15 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean, but because of high population densities along low-lying coastlines, the storms have caused nearly 80 percent...
Earth Sciences | Read moreA quarter of the world's population depends on degrading land
A new study published in the journal Soil Use and Management attempts for the first time to measure the extent and severity of land degradation across the globe and concludes that 24% of the land area...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read morePurdue study projects weakened monsoon season in South Asia
A Purdue University research group found that climate change could influence monsoon dynamics and cause less summer precipitation, a delay in the start of monsoon season and longer breaks between the ...
Earth Sciences | Read moreElephants under threat as illegal ivory price soars in Viet Nam
An assessment of the illegal ivory trade in Viet Nam said Vietnamese illegal ivory prices could be the highest in the world, with reports of tusks selling for up to USD1500/kg and small, cut pieces se...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreMore than 1000 New Species Discovered in Rivers, Jungles...and Restaurants of the Greater Mekong in Past Decade
A rat thought extinct for 11 million years and a hot-pink, cyanide-producing dragon millipede are among a thousand new species discovered in the Greater Mekong Region of Southeast Asia in the last dec...
Life Sciences | Read moreHimalaya – Changing Landscapes photo exhibition draws the world’s attention to the impacts of climate change in the Himalayas
Now, fifty years later, the black and white photographs taken by these scientists are of immense value in trying to understand the impacts of climate change on the world’s highest mountain range, the ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreMyanmar after Cyclone Nargis
Improved agricultural productivity can help developing countries reduce their reliance on international emergency food relief following natural disasters. This is one of the conclusions of a team of I...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read morePhotos Reveal Myanmar's Large and Small Predators
Using camera traps survey techniques, researchers from WCS’s Myanmar Program have combed the 3,250-square-kilometer core area (approx. 1,250 square miles) of the Hukaung tiger reserve, the world’ larg...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreIdentifying areas at risk for arsenic contamination
Now, Eawag has developed a model that allows vulnerable areas to be pinpointed using existing data on geology and soil properties. This has also enabled the researchers to detect high-risk areas in re...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreTigers Disappear From Himalayan Refuge
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, once a refuge that boasted among the highes...
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