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Pox Americana

Is the West a victim of its own past?

Chinese caves throw light on Asian monsoons

Custard apples belong to South America, or India?

The demoralizing esculent

When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease

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The earliest modern humans in Europe mastered bow-and-arrow technology 54,000 years ago

Neanderthals did not develop mechanically propelled weapons, used traditional weapons

A book on the history of spices

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IN PHOTOS: China, India, Iran, Spain get new world heritage sites

The rise and fall of a chemical

DDT use goes back to World War II

Rewilding Tasmania with emus will be good for the island state’s ecosystems

Why did the Tasmanian emus go extinct and should we reintroduce them?

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A great panic

Overextended banks crashing, leading to recession. 1873 revisited

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Different colours of green

How media has shaped people's understanding of environment

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'Exhibits at National Museum of Natural History destroyed in all probability'

A massive fire had broken out in the museum building on Monday night

Study sheds new light on lineage of Arctic people

Analysis based on DNA samples collected from ancient human remains

Neermahal: palace on shrinking lake

Remodelling will destroy Mumbai's Crawford market

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Vulture nemesis returns in new avatar

New painkiller used on cattle gets metabolised into diclofenac

New species of snake discovered in Western Ghats

It is named after Varad Giri of Bombay Natural History Society who brought it from Goa

Vulture nemesis still in drug store shelves

Ban on diclofenac flouted by over a third of the pharmacies