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An international team that studied all the world s glaciers - around 2,20,000 in total - found that over the past two decades glaciers have rapidly lost thickness and mass. The situation in the Himalayas is particularly worrying, explains lead author Romain Hugonnet, in a release. “During the dry season, glacial meltwater is an important source that feeds major waterways such as the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus rivers. Right now, this increased melting acts as a buffer for people living in the region, but if Himalayan glacier shrinkage keeps accelerating, populous countries like India and Bangladesh could face water or food shortages in a few decades. ....
Updated: March 17, 2021 18:57 IST Here are some of the most interesting research papers to have appeared in top science journals last week. Share Article AAA In this Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 file photo, a glacier calves icebergs into a fjord off the Greenland ice sheet in southeastern Greenland. | Photo Credit: AP Here are some of the most interesting research papers to have appeared in top science journals last week. (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here.) Deep secrets of Greenland By studying sediments and twig fossils collected from northwestern Greenland, researchers note that the ice in the region entirely melted at least once within the past one million years and was covered with plants and trees. The authors say this shows Greenland is much more sensitive to natural climate warming than previously thought and it can quickly melt and pour in ....
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Here are some of the most interesting research papers to have appeared in top science journals last week. (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here.) Multipurpose herb Catnip ( Nepeta cataria), a garden herb known for its hallucinogenic effects on domestic cats, is also used to ward off insects, especially mosquitoes. A new study has now decoded how the plant does this. The researchers found that Catnip and its active ingredient Nepetalactone activates an irritant receptor called TRPA1. ....