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Feel-good for Indian bonds lasted just one day as bears return

India's bonds surged last Monday, with 10-year yields dropping the most in a year, after RBI scrapped a planned sale of open-market operation bonds

1 min read27 Nov 2017
Science

Time to ditch the polar bears? Climate change looks for a new image

To boost public engagement on climate change, climate change organization Climate Outreach looks to get more people-focused images into the media

3 min read22 May 2017
Mint-lounge

What’s cuter than a red panda in the wild?

A project in Darjeeling is successfully breeding the threatened red panda to restore their numbers in the wild

7 min read10 Jun 2016
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How to rescue elephants

Kartick Satyanarayan saves captive and trapped wild animals and stops poachers

8 min read9 Nov 2015
News

Adapt or die: Arctic animals cope with climate change

The freezing rain that often falls now instead of snow, for example, is making it harder for foxes and reindeer in Svalbard to get a meal

3 min read2 Sep 2015
News

Bears too get scared by UFO: study

Researchers found despite the bears' calm demeanour in the presence of UAVs, their heart rates soar, a sign of acute stress

2 min read14 Aug 2015
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Polar bears may be superb divers: scientists

Scientists observed a polar bear staying under water for over three minutes, setting a new record

1 min read4 Aug 2015
Mint-lounge

Lounge Travel: Big Bend National Park, Texas

For pristine night skies with a view of Saturn's rings and probable encounters with bears, ditch the Grand Canyon for the Big Bend

5 min read25 Jul 2015
News

Scientists say low metabolism lets giant pandas survive on bamboo

Giant pandas save energy a level similar to that of sluggish sloth thanks to low levels of physical activity and low levels of thyroid hormones

1 min read10 Jul 2015
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Polar bears now eating dolphins as world’s waters warm

Dolphins, lured northward by warmer waters, were trapped under the ice and killed by the bears when coming up for air through a small hole

1 min read12 Jun 2015
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