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10 months, 1 week ago

Before fantasizing over a spring garden, prep your raised beds. Here’s how to do it right

LA Times

It’s nearly spring, so what better time to announce that the L.A. Times Plants newsletter is back! For more details visit tomatomania.com March 2 Plant Day at Los Angeles Central Library 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in downtown L.A. Keynote speakers include L.A. Times Plants reporter Jeanette Marantos discussing habitat gardens, L.A. Dodgers Landscape Manager Chaz Perea and his team …

Spring Plants Angeles Soil Add Free Plant

1 year, 2 months ago

‘We don’t know how big the threat is’: Study detects deadly ‘superbug’ bacteria in soda fountains

Hindustan Times

Food Water Bacteria Study Fast Fast Food Superbug

1 year, 3 months ago

MU unveils sewage treatment project using earthworms

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: In an effort to create a sustainable and carbon-neutral green campus, the University of Mumbai has inaugurated an earthworm-based sewage treatment project at its Vidyanagari complex in Kalina. The MU said that the project, Absolute Water Private Limited, was the winning proposal presented as part of the 11-youth start-up innovative concepts six months back for a competition aimed at …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Synchronous lighting by mega congregation of fireflies recorded in another forest range of Anamalai Tiger Reserve

The Hindu

The otherwise pitch-black nights in the Manambolly forests in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve along the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu are witnessing a mega light show of bioluminescence. A team, comprising ATR Field Director S. Ramasubramanian, Deputy Director Bhargava Teja, Assistant Conservator of Forests V. Selvam and members of the Wild and Dark Earth, an NGO engaged in the study …

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1 year, 8 months ago

India’s newest named frog is a dark cave dweller in Meghalaya

The Hindu

GUWAHATI The newest croaker recorded in India is a dark cave dweller, unlike most members of the Ranidae family belonging to Amolops, a genus of true frogs. Scientists from the Shillong and Pune units of the Zoological Survey of India have named the new species Amolops siju after the Siju cave system of Meghalaya, from where four specimens were collected. …

India Meghalaya Cave Species Dinesh Siju Zsi

2 years, 4 months ago

Drought causing food shortage for animals

NL Times

The ongoing drought is causing severe problems for wildlife in the Netherlands. Mammals’ watering holes are drying up, small animals struggle to get food, and birds can’t get through the bone-dry ground with their beaks, animal organizations said to NU.nl. “And that while many drinking places for mammals have already disappeared,” Elze Polman of the Mammal Association said. Common food …

Animals Small Mammals

2 years, 7 months ago

Call for action to stop ‘invasive hitchhikers’ threatening UK wildlife

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Experts are calling for strict Government plant import restrictions and want gardeners to “buy British” to avoid bringing in …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Can you turn 2-minute noodles into a flock of sheep?

Live Mint

Children and adults alike love to play that game of identifying animals hiding among white tufts of clouds in a blue sky. Art Is Everywhere, a new series of picture books published by Pratham Books, plays on the trope of surprises lurking in every corner, such that a packet of instant noodles may start looking like a mama sheep and …

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4 years, 3 months ago

用冷冻便便制成刀、自恋者眉毛研究……搞笑诺贝尔奖又来了

China Daily

2020搞笑诺贝尔奖近日揭晓，来自美国的一名人类学家因制作和测试用冷冻人类粪便制成的刀具而获得了材料科学奖。来看看还有哪些无厘头的搞笑研究吧。 Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash The annals of science brim with researchers who pushed the boundaries of sense and good taste in a quest for knowledge. Really.” “被认可是一种荣誉，”获奖者埃伦在9月17日举行搞笑诺贝尔颁奖礼前表示，“我一生都在追求搞笑诺贝尔奖。梦想成真了。真的。” Not to be mistaken for the more prestigious – and lucrative – Nobel prizes, to be doled out in Scandinavia next month, the Ig Nobels celebrate research that “first makes …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Whacky research linking bold eyebrows to narcissism awarded Ig Nobel prize

ABC

Can you tell a narcissist by their eyebrows? Key points: Ig Nobels celebrate science that makes you laugh, then makes you think 10 prizes were given to research in areas including psychology, materials science, acoustics, economics and physics Two prizes were given to teams involving Australian researchers Each year "improbable research" risks being nominated for an Ig Nobel — in …

Research Prize Nobel Study Researchers Kissing Worms

5 years, 2 months ago

Egrets migrate to Ooty for earthworm meal during rains

Deccan Chronicle

Ooty: Ecological conditions and behavioral sciences seem be different and intriguing for the animal kingdom, especially where the lives of avians are concerned when one looks at the large numbers of cattle egret birds that have flocked to the hills when the hills here are being drenched in the rains. For the past two days there has been a sudden …

Ooty Cattle Egrets

5 years, 3 months ago

Goa to be declared organic state: CM Pramod Sawant

India TV News

Goa will soon be declared an organic state, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday. Sawant urged farmers and dairy owners to focus on the generation of vermicompost, which he said, would replace chemical fertilisers, to be used as manure for agricultural and horticultural crops. We have decided to stop using chemical fertilisers," Sawant said. He also said that once …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Microplastics stunt growth of worms, study finds

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Exposure to plastic commonly used in the production of bottles and carrier bags caused earthworms to lose 3.1 per …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Back to the roots!

Deccan Chronicle

Have you recently got a chance to catch an aerial view of Bengaluru just before you land? Most of all, the gardens would help us reconnect with nature in an intimate way!” Sharing a bit about what inspired him to come out with such an exceptional idea he says, “I realised that there is absolutely no knowledge of how food …

Soil Sandeep

5 years, 9 months ago

Trending: Bengaluru school asks who is farmer's friend, Yeddyurappa, Kumaraswamy or earthworms

India Today

A Bengaluru school has landed in a major controversy after asking its Class 8 students an odd question in the election season. Funny as it may sound, the goof-up has landed Mount Carmel English High School in Rajarajeshwarinagar, Bengaluru, in trouble after the question paper went viral on the internet, reported the Deccan Herald. Options: a. BS Yeddyurappa b. HD …

Bengaluru Karnataka Students School Twitter Kumaraswamy Farmer

5 years, 11 months ago

Khatron Ke Khiladi 9: Bigg Boss 12's Sreesanth throws major tantrum while performing cockroach stunt