This family had come from India to the US, and all four grandparents live far away. Through modern technology and some family visits, the girls know their grandparents—but they want more. Where did they go to school How did they meet, get married, and raise families What were their stori...
The DLR is a basal mechanism which enables vertical orientation. Bright lights can disrupt this mechanism and unintentionally alter insect flight. Taken together, reducing unnecessary, unshielded, upward-facing lights and ground reflections can mitigate the impact on flying insects at night, when sky...
If we can’t live without data centres, the IT sector needs to look for alternative models to redress their monstrous carbon footprints – a larger share in total than every country besides the USA, China and India. The impending climate crisis, however, is by no means a...
Among the insects we tested, only Vinegar Flies (Drosophilaspp.) and Oleander Hawkmoths (Daphnis nerii) flew undisrupted over upward-facing ultraviolet light, but it is unclear why. Curiously, artificial illumination in the field readily entraps Oleander and other hawkmoths40. Additionally, there ...
Let us end, then, by updating the estimate of just how little global warming would be abated even if the whole world went to net-zero emissions – which it won’t, since 70% of all new emissions are from so-called “developing” nations such as China and India, that are exempt fro...
a food increasingly grown in China and India. Stem rust, a fungal disease of wheat, has spread through much of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and is now threatening the vast growing regions of central and south Asia, which produce some 20 percent of the world’s wheat. Bananas, which ar...
While the incomes of the world’s poorest have risen substantially in countries like China and India in the past fifty years, the middle classes have seen their incomes and wealth decline sharply in the last few decades in developed economies, causing the rise of populism and general dis...
Also war is looming between China and Taiwan, India etc. So all the above shows Oil to go through the roof. The drop we had where oil hit in the low -30s or so, was a way for the wise people in the know, to pick up oil at next to nothing, and now make enormous returns,...
systems. GCC public and private sector players have also increasingly developed an international profile in their efforts to secure key commodity supply lines, most obviously in the case of agricultural products. This echoes similar developments in China and India and is likely to grow in importance...
A month ago, as Russia’s war in Ukraine pushed the world to the brink of a food crisis, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi offered to help countries facing shortages. “We already have enough food for our people but our farmers seem to have made arrangements to feed the ...