Signs of mafia

Code>> Cocaine Smuggling • Italy

Family without mother

Protest>> Family Planning • Iran

News Snippets

Cyclone Phailin's progress

Scientists talk back

Communications>> Science Research • Canada

Local call

Mobile Network>> Indigenous People • Mexico

Uttarakhand's displaced

Babies as trophies

TV>> Talk Show • Pakistan

Value of a tweet

Twitter>> Reporting • Virtual world

Wire to prime minister

Telegrams>> Medicines • India

Crazy ant gets a name

Species that gave pest exterminators a hard time identified

Monkey’s tale

New species found in the rainforests of Congo basin

Rewards from Rio: A year later

Wars of the green kind

For a fistful of dollars

Fighting floods

A new water radar system helps in the prediction of floods

Seabed movers

The Earth's bad breath

A mysterious outburst of methane from the ocean's floor may have

Cementing possibilities

After water, concrete (mainly cement) is the most widely used material on the planet. It is also the second largest industrial emitter of carbon …

Novel Therapy

Bimal K Banik is President’s Endowed Professor and professor of chemistry at College of Science and Mathematics, University of Texas-Pan …

Pilgrims' distress

Better infrastructure planning and upgrade needed for mega events like Kumbh to avert stampedes

Catching them young

Every year, the Indian Science Congress Association awards young scientists of the country. Down To Earth spoke to some of the winners about …

Perfect model

Biologists use a variety of animal models for experiments. But a mouse or a fruitfly cannot truly represent a human being. Jessica Bolker, …

Why we are bugged

Book>> Spillover • by David Quammen • W Norton and Company • Rs 1,550

An idea that lasted

CSE and DTE have continued the tradition of bringing out an annual report card on the environment for four decades; the latest edition has …