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Panaji: A new study for the first time has definitively measured the impact of climate change on vegetation in the central Western Ghats of India, particularly the Goa region. It has recorded a ...
WITH the summer season just days away, many will be jetting off for holidays abroad in search of some warmer weather. But one ...
Great apes began to diverge from other primates about 25 million years ago, according to eastern African fossil records.
But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest – the size of about ...
Paris: Eighteen football pitches every minute of every hour of every day: that is the record extent of tropical rainforest destroyed last year due in large measure to fires fuelled by climate ...
Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more ... scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The unprecedented find was made in Brunei ...
The world's tropical forests, which provide a crucial buffer against climate change, disappeared faster than ever recorded last year, new satellite analysis suggests. Researchers estimate that ...
Temperate deciduous forests are located in the mid-latitude areas which means that they are found between the polar regions and the tropics. The deciduous forest regions are exposed to warm and cold ...