With a taste for metals

Made to order plants that eat pollutants

Waste not, want not

Waste generated in Guwahati will now be used to produce bio-fertiliser and electricity

Gene remedy

Swiss bans GM for five years

Modified dangers

Bt maize can stunt the growth of caterpillars

In Short

Global seed vault opens

Anti-GM vestiges

Mighty caterpillars

Yielding to pressure

Cooling begins in doomsday vault

Doomsday vault good and ready

Facing- rough weather

Scientists are making gloomy predictions that rising temperatures shall jeopardise not just human health but our crops as well

Fume out

Recycling carbon

Poor harvest

Punjab farmers are reaping losses

In Short

South Asia

Hollowed out

Coniferous forests of Alaska are being devoured by beetles. Ecologists blame the changing climatic conditions

Batting the pests out

Poor soil, global warming

The downside of using combine harvesters

It is never too late

Sugar mills turn U

India ignores biodiversity

Natural pesticides