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Pune: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued show-cause notices to four ready mix concrete (RMC) plants in Wakad and Tathawade for violating air pollution norms. Following ...

As seawater creeps further into coastlines, salt threatens to pollute the freshwater reserves that people depend on. But this ...

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Understanding the genetic basis of valuable crop wild relatives (CWRs) could enable their use in expanding crop diversity and enhancing production. The first reference genome for Hordeum I-genome ...

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