Durham: Laboratory rats who breathed Beijing's highly polluted air gained weight and experienced cardio-respiratory and metabolic dysfunctions after three to eight weeks of exposure.

London: New research shows that more than 5.5 million people die prematurely every year due to household and outdoor air pollution. More than half of deaths occur in two of the world's fastest growing economies, China and India.

New Delhi: A low pressure area is expected to form over southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood.

Washington: Georgia Institute of Technology researchers combed through more than two dozen studies and did surface measurements for 27 mammals and insects to better understand how animals are able to clean themselves. 

Washington: The likelihood of an area experiencing a potentially devastating landslide could be influenced by its previous exposure to earthquakes many decades earlier.

Washington: The electric eel may be one of the most remarkable predators in the entire animal kingdom.

New Delhi: A Depression has formed over southeast Arabian Sea. At 0830 hrs IST, the 28th October, it lay centered about 1200 km southwest of Mumbai and about 1320 km southeast of Salalah (Oman).  

Mathura / Vrindavan: River activists and Yamuna bhakts have demanded that the union government should set up an empowered Commission to promote and restore the health of the River Yamuna through a River Basin Management Plan and approach the initiative of river conservation with a more integrated approach at a national level.

Utah: In the 250-million-year evolutionary history of turtles, scientists have seen nothing like the pig nose of a new species of extinct turtle discovered in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by a team from the Natural History Museum of Utah.

Montreal: The very act of tolerating some forms of soil pollution may give trees an advantage in the natural world, says University of Montreal plant biologists. Their findings were published recently in BMC Plant Biology.