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From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages
With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve …
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Landmark space mission set to create artificial solar eclipses using satellites
Two satellites in Proba-3 mission expected to be launched on Wednesday in India and will work in tandem to stu…
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Hong Kong unearths its first ever dinosaur fossils
Official hails discovery ‘of great significance’ on Port Island, with remains of as yet unknown species to go …
- Animal behaviour, Animal welfare, Animals, Biodiversity, Climate crisis, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, India, IUCN red list of endangered species, Oil and gas companies, Primatology, Science, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
Guardians of the Gibbons: animal-human harmony hangs in the balance
For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the…
- Animal behaviour, Animal welfare, Animals, Biodiversity, Climate crisis, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, India, IUCN red list of endangered species, Oil and gas companies, Primatology, Science, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
Guardians of the Gibbons: can India save its only ape species from extinction?
For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the…
- Biology, Delhi, Global development, Global health, Health, India, Infectious diseases, Medical research, Microbiology, Science, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts sceptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027
After huge gains by 2005, efforts to wipe the disease out in India, which has most of the world’s cases, stall…
- Antibiotics, Drug resistance, Drugs, Global development, Global health, Infectious diseases, Pakistan, Science, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Drug-resistant typhoid is the final warning sign’: disease spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail
As world leaders discuss the battle against superbugs in New York, Pakistan’s children are suffering on the fr…
- Coronavirus, Global development, Global health, Hospitals, India, Science, Society, South and Central Asia, Technology, Telecoms, World news
‘You feel omnipresent’: bringing city care to India’s country hospitals
With no intensive care available in remote areas, many patients died on their way to city hospitals. Now rural…
- Astronomy, Books, Buddhism, Colonialism, Culture, Hinduism, History books, India, Religion, Science, South and Central Asia, World news
‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west
The flow of knowledge to Europe on maths, astronomy and much more has gone unacknowledged by historians. In AD…
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China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe returns world’s first samples from far side of the moon
Re-entry capsule containing precious cargo from mission has parachuted into Inner MongoliaChina has become the…
- Animals, Conservation, Czech Republic, Environment, Europe, Kazakhstan, Life and style, Science, South and Central Asia, World news, Zoology, Zoos
Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries
Seven Przewalski’s horses, the only truly wild species of the animal in the world, flown to central Asian coun…
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus, Infectious diseases, Journalist safety, Science, World news, Xi Jinping
Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s search for the truth during the early days of the pandemic was seen as a threa…
- Animals, Asia Pacific, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Malaysia, Mammals, Palm oil, Primatology, Science, Trees and forests, Wildlife, World news
Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil
‘Orangutan diplomacy’ strategy aims to ease concern over environmental impact of palm oil production, says min…
- Asia Pacific, Biology, Censorship, China, Coronavirus, Infectious diseases, Medical research, Microbiology, Science, World news
First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’
Zhang Yongzhen stages sit-in protest, as government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreakThe fi…
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Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India
Scientists estimate Vasuki indicus was up to 15m long, weighed a tonne and would have constricted its preyFoss…