ENVIRONMENT

Researchers have developed a way to make production of bioplastic known as polylactic acid (PLA) cheaper and greener.

​​Birds play a very important role in Indian culture. In Indian mythology, different varieties of birds are associated as the transport or Vahanas of Gods & Goddesses. Bird tourism has a vast potential in India

Both chimpanzees and gorillas harbour viruses that are capable of crossing the species barrier to humans and have the potential to cause major disease outbreaks.

New research from an international team, including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has uncovered the mystery of why large Triassic dinosaurs took more than 30 million years to populate the tropics.

Corals are colourful creatures. Coral reefs are home to around 25% of ocean life and are often known as the “rainforests of the sea.” Coral reefs hold the cures for some of the most common and serious ailments. Reserchers believe that they could facilitate future medicinal discoveries. As they say we’re 300 to 400 times more likely to find new drugs in the oceans than on land.

The researchers studied corals along 1,000km of coastline in the southern PAG, a region where the world’s warmest coral reef habitats are separated from the wider Indian Ocean by the narrow Strait of Hormuz. With rising ocean temperatures anticipated to cause a loss of most warm water reefs within the next 100 years, it has been discussed whether heat tolerant corals adapted to hot environments, such as PAG, could be used to replenish reefs damaged by global warming elsewhere.

The man according to his comfort zone is rearranging nature. The way technology is built up, resources are being consumed. This contributes to the vanishing of the environment.

What goes up must go down. Same rule applies when it comes to satellites. Otherwise, Orbit may well become unusable as they fill with debris.

Fruit flies have been used to successfully model a number of human disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and obesity. They provide an ideal system to study cellular pathways and develop novel therapies for neural dysfunction and cell death/damage.

Scheduled to be completed by 2020, The Dubai Rainforest will recreate the natural environment experienced in the heart of the deepest rainforests, which cover 6 per cent of the earth’s surface. The tall, dense jungle environment will be fully recreated with many plants species integrated into the iconic dome structure.

Although Mars is one of the most Earth-like planet and closest to earth, Mars and Earth are different in many ways. If and when human beings are able to set up a colony on Mars, they would need a high level of self-sufficiency and sustainable agriculture, instead of 100 % reliance on shipped cargo from Earth, which is impractical.

Lionfish are voracious eaters that indiscriminately eat anything small enough to fit in their mouths — large quantities. This might spell danger for the local reef communities over a period of time when lionfish establish a population in Brazilian waters