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China demographic crisis: One child policy backfires; rising living costs
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
China's demographic crisis continue to deepen as the country's population planning initiative One Child Policy, which earlier forced families to have one child under its umbrella has now severely backfired, leading to population decline.
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Change in temperature risks bees prone to pesticides: Study
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Certain pesticides, particularly a class called neonicotinoids, are known to impact bees and other important insects, and are thought to be contributing to population declines. However, bees' reported responses to this threat across the world often seem to vary, suggesting other interacting
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Current Antarctic conservation efforts insufficient to avoid biodiversity
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Existing conservation efforts are insufficient to protect Antarctic ecosystems, and population declines are likely for 65 per cent of the continent's plants and wildlife by the year 2100, according to a study
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China attempts to boost birth rate with new policies
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 19 (ANI): Amid the declining birth rates in the country, Chinese authorities have issued a guideline introducing a raft of policies for prenatal and postnatal support to promote balanced long-term population development.
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Chinese district announces childcare allowance amid decreasing birth rate
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 13 (ANI): Amid trends suggesting decreasing population in China, a district in Wenzhou has announced plans to give families a childcare allowance to encourage more births.
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Study reveals how heat waves could lead to avian population decline
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3(ANI): According to a recent on how heat impacts the behaviour and physiology of Zebra finches revealed that heat altered the activity of hundreds of genes in the testis, but fewer in the brain, also suggesting that the brain may be less responsive to extreme temperatu
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Heat waves could lead to avian population decline: Study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): A new study that examines how heat impacts the behaviour and physiology of Zebra finches found that heat altered the activity of hundreds of genes in the testis, but fewer in the brain, suggesting that the brain may be less responsive to extreme temperatures.
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China's population crisis is much worse than projected: Expert
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 6 (ANI): China's population crisis is even worse than the official data provided by Beijing, according to a Chinese expert.
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China's population declined in 10 provincial-level regions in 2021
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 8 (ANI): Amid nationwide concerns, China's population of the 10 provincial-level regions have fallen in 2021, according to data released by the statistics authorities.
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Thousands of Hong Kongers leaving city every day due to COVID scare
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, March 7 (ANI): Thousands of residents are leaving Hong Kong every day as the city continues to battle its worst wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to media reports.
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Boom in social stress may contribute to population decline: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 8 (ANI): A University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental health scientist has developed an "overlooked hypothesis" to help explain the projected global population decline beginning in 2064: social stress.
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Seoul reports largest population drop in 5 years: Data
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], July 4 (ANI): In wake of soaring housing prices, Seoul, the capital city of South Korea has suffered its largest population decline in five years, according to a data.
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