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Cork students investigate: How much plastic is in your teabags? ELLIE O’BYRNE reports on more of the fantastic projects at this year’s BT Young Scientist awards, which gets underway tomorrow.— including projects on plastic in teabags and another on synchronised swimming. Transition year students at St Marys High School in Midleton, Suzanne Dignam, Grace Rooney, and Anna Brenner with their science teacher Niamh Jones who have worked on their project on plastic in teabags for the BT Young...

Environmentalist slams abuse of forest rights Bhubaneswar: Eminent environmentalist and founder of Center for Ecological Sciences, Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil, Sunday, said that the authorities are abusing people’s rights on forests to promote commercial entities that profit from the destruction of biodiversity. Gadgil was addressing the 11th edition of the three-day Odisha Environment Congress-2020 that began here Sunday. The main theme of this year’s session is ‘Environment and Biodiversit...

by Gemma Mackenzie © PRESS AND JOURNAL Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A new pen-side test to diagnose liver fluke in livestock in as little as 10 minutes is being developed by UK researchers. Scientists at the University of Liverpool are working with rapid diagnostic technology company Mologic Ltd to develop a ...

Lovers spat? Learn from these lizards Lovers spat? Learn from these lizards ByHemanth CSHemanth CS / Updated: Dec 18, 2020, 06:00 IST Male lizards of different species change their sexual signals, aggression to woo females, finds study A recent study by the Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) Center for Ecological Sciences has found that males of a certain fan-throated lizard species change their sexual signals to avoid aggression with those of another species. The study of the researchers...

In parts of South India, herds of bison are coming out of forests to forage in farms Gaurs are increasingly being found outside protected areas. Gaurs in a tea estate in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. | Abhishek N Chinnappa for Mongabay It is not uncommon in India to see cattle grazing in farms and backyards, ruminating by the road, or even causing a minor inconvenience to vehicles. Replace cattle with herds of gaur (Indian bison) and you are likely to be in Coonoor, one of the taluks...