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 Brisbane, Australia (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 
Australian, Malaysian and Indonesian scientists say they've determined the world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo Dragon, is an Australian native.
The research by paleontologists and archaeologists who studied fossil evidence from Australia, Timor, Flores, Java and India, shows Komodo Dragons (Varanus komodoensis) most likely evolved in Australia and dispersed westward to Ind ... read more
Tamil Nadu, India (UPI) Sep 30, 2009 Geologists in Tamil Nadu, India, said a trove of dinosaur eggs was peeping out of the sand beds on grazing land in plain site as they walked by. The site is part of an area rich in ancient organisms dating back 140 million years, geologists told The Times of India. "We found clusters and clusters of spherical eggs of dinosaurs. And each cluster contained eight eggs," M.U. Ramkuma ... more
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 02, 2009More of the fertilizers and pesticides used to grow corn would find their way into nearby water sources if ethanol demands lead to planting more acres in corn, according to a Purdue University study. The study of Indiana water sources found that those near fields that practice continuous-corn rotations had higher levels of nitrogen, fungicides and phosphorous than corn-soybean rotations. ... more  
Thiruvananthapuram, India (PTI) Oct 01, 2009Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said that the country was all set to launch a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) using an indigenously developed cryogenic engine. Talking to reporters here on Monday, Nair said, "I have to say that it is yet another historic event for ISRO. Till now we were using Russian built cryogenic stages. We had ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 30, 2009India has suffered its worst drought since 1972, the official weather office said on Wednesday, with rains 23 percent below average at the end of the country's four-month monsoon season. "India's 2009 monsoon rainfall has been the worst since 1972," a spokesperson for the Meteorological Department, P.K. Bandhopadhyay, told AFP. In 1972, monsoon rainfall was 24 percent below average, he ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Sept 27, 2009Indian police said on Sunday they were questioning Chinese engineers and site workers as part of investigations into how a power plant chimney collapsed, killing 41 people. China's Shandong Electric Power Construction was one of the firms contracted by Balco, a subsidiary of London-listed resources giant Vedanta, to build the electricity station in central Chhattisgarh state. ... more 
Brussels (AFP) Sept 25, 2009Major emerging economies such as China and India must turn public pronouncements on limiting greenhouse gases into "concrete actions," the Swedish EU presidency stated Friday. "Recent encouraging public statements from the big emerging economies about limiting their emissions growth need to be turned into concrete actions and put on the negotiating table as well," Swedish Environment ... more  
College Park MD (SPX) Sep 25, 2009New data from the Deep Impact spacecraft and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument aboard India's recently ended Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, provide, for the first time, clear evidence that water exists on the surface of the Moon. "The Deep Impact observations of the Moon not only unequivocally confirm the presence of OH/H2O on the lunar surface, but also reveal that the entire ... more |
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