Environmnent news

Fungus that devours plastic may help clean environment

 Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found an unexpected solution to the growing plastic problem in the form of a soil fungus.

Apr 02, 2017, 16:31 PM IST

Scientists find new tree-climbing crab species

The new species named Haberma tingkok have been placed in a small genus, which contains merely three members.

Mar 23, 2017, 17:44 PM IST

Breakthrough! Researchers find first fluorescent frog in Argentina

Argentine and Brazilian scientists at the Bernardino Rivadaiva Natural Sciences Museum made the discovery while studying the metabolic origin of pigments in a tree-frog species common to South America.

Mar 17, 2017, 09:50 AM IST