The millennium hotline
The new century will explode into your home through plastic optical fibres, say US scientists, promising an amazing, "wired" future
Plastic surgery
The government's notification on plastic will have little effect on the industry or the environment. It is merely a move to silence opposition to …
Parenting turtles
Malaysia starts adoption scheme to check the dwindling turtle population
Eco-friendly plastics?
That's electronics for you
Shape of things to come
A novel method to convert plastic bags into new shapes could help minimise their adverse effects on our environment
City of Gloom
Breaking ice
The discovery of water on the Moon means little unless it can be used. Scientists are using all their skills to figure out how
Vicious cycle
The Union government dilly-dallies on an expert committee recommendation to ban recycled plastic bags
Plastic-on-wheels
Cool Mr Moon
There is a lot of hydrogen on the moon, possibly in the form of water-ice, which could fuel rockets -- and is fuelling fantasies about colonisation
Costly populism
SUBSIDIZING UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, UNDERMINING THE EARTH WITH PUBLIC FUNDS· Andre de Moor & Peter Calamai·Commissioned …