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Bloom Cafe and Cakery, where Acai from Brazil meets India
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 30: Love at first sight and real love at first bite: Bloom brings authentic and delicious Acai bowls from Brazil to India. Bloom Cafe & Cakery recently hosted an event to introduce the Indian diaspora to the famous Acai bowls, made using Acai berries grown on
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Brazil: Amazon nations launch alliance to protect rainforest, fail to agre
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Eight South American countries launched an alliance to fight deforestation in the Amazon — the world’s biggest rainforest — from reaching “a point of no return”, Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday.
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Mirror image molecules reveal drought stress in forests
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
As with pinene, many monoterpenes occur in two mirror-image forms: (+) alpha-pinene and (-) alpha-pinene. Plants can release both forms of these volatile molecules directly after biosynthesis or from storage pools in leaves. Because the two chiral or enantiomeric forms have identical physica
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Research: In a warmer rainforest, trees get overheated
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Gothenburg [Sweden], September 28 (ANI): The potential of rainforests to store carbon may diminish as a result of climate change. This is because photosynthesis rates in rainforest species' leaves decrease at higher temperatures, and the trees' natural cooling systems fail during droughts. I
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Research: Tropical insects are extremely sensitive to changing climates
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): Insects that are adapted to perennially wet environments, like tropical rainforests, don't tend to do well when their surroundings dry out. New research indicates they may be equally averse to heavy rainfall. The results of an extensive five-year study co
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Colombian defence minister blames former FARC members for Amazon forest fi
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], February 6 (ANI/Sputnik): Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano claimed that former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) set fire to the country's Amazon rainforests to clear areas for extensive stockbreeding and coca production.
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Shrinking forest cover brings endangered species lion tailed macaques on r
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Shivamogga (Karnataka) [India], September 1 (ANI): In view of the shrinking forest cover and absence of native trees, lion-tailed macaques (LTM), an endangered species residing in rainforests of Western Ghats, come up to the hairpin curve of Agumbe ghat in Shivamogga to get food thrown by tr
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Dia Mirza, Shruti Haasan celebrate World Elephant Day 2021
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 12 (ANI): On the occasion of World Elephant Day on Thursday, actors Dia Mirza and Shruti Haasan, who are quite vocal about environmental causes, requested everyone to help protect elephants for maintaining the biodiversity of rainforests.
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Researchers invent indicator to monitor world's rainforests
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Delaware [US], August 1 (ANI): Scientists recently developed a new tracking system in order to monitor danger to the world's rainforests, which have been losing the capacity to cycle carbon and water.
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Scientists develop new tracking system for monitoring danger to rainforest
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Delaware [US], July 26 (ANI): During a recent study, scientists developed a new indicator for monitoring danger to the world's rainforests, which have been losing the capacity to cycle carbon and water.
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Madagascar's eastern rainforests might disappear by 2070: Study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [USA], Jan 3 (ANI): The island country of Madagascar is a safe haven to thousands of endemic plant and animal species, but going by latest scientific predictions, all this could potentially change in the near future.
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Climate change is real; nine climate tipping points now 'active'
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 29 (ANI): While there has been a lot of hue and cry over climate crisis, there still are people who don't believe that the change is real. But science believes so with not just one but nine evident proofs!
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