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Himalayas should brace for ‘mega quake’ this century
Posted by SciDevNet: None Given on January 1st, 2013
SciDevNet: A 'mega earthquake' is likely to strike the Himalayas this century, causing catastrophic landslides and floods and killing more than 40,000 people, Indian and US geologists have warned.
Scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute of India and Stanford University, United States, analysed the fault that separates the Asian and Indian continental plates.
Images of the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT) fault showed that a segment of it dips downwards by 15 degrees, and is steeper and...
African farmers could soon grow virus-resistant cassava
Posted by SciDevNet: None Given on October 18th, 2012
SciDevNet: Researchers in Zurich, Switzerland, have successfully developed a strain of virus-resistant cassava, and now hope to train scientists in Africa to develop the technology in laboratories on the continent. The study, which demonstrated that researchers can now generate transgenic farmer- and industry-preferred cassava, was published in PLOS One last month (25 September). Herve Vanderschuren, the study's lead author, and head of the cassava research team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology...
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