Living with asthma in Delhi

Kaushik Das Gupta, one of the participants in the CSE study, wonders if the government will ever announce a ‘clean air package’ for …

Odisha bans sterilisation camps after reports of use of bicycle pump in surgery

On November 8 in Chhattisgarh’s Takhatpur block of Bilaspur district  

Joker in the pack of stars

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And miles to go before we meet

The North-South divide is not a fabrication: for three-fourths of the world, it is a fact of daily existence. Ignoring it will not make it …

All for the people

International organisations concentrating on the moral and material uplift of the underpriviledged

Gaea's youngest

For the first time, scientists beheld the unusual phenomenon of the birth of an island from an undersea volcano in the Pacific ocean off Hawaii

Sea, from space

Unique satellite images of the ocean floor, made available for the first time, could challenge the existing theories of the earth

Deep rumblings

Increase in incidence of earthquakes in Kerala, otherwise a seismically stable zone, is due to high sea pressure and changing land- use patterns

A chunk of space rock may hold clues to origin of Earth

Materials like Ryugu space rock make up 5% of the planet’s mass, likely helped make planet habitable, finds study

This Earth Day, Stop the Money Pipeline

20 million Americans took to the streets for the first Earth Day in 1970

Earth-like planet discovered in twin star system

Discovery opens the possibility of many planets in Earth-like orbits in star systems previously unexplored, say scientists

Global temperature highest in 11,000 years

Researchers caution temperatures will rise another 2.0 to 11.5°F by the end of this century

After 7.9 shock

The earthquake that shook Nepal and northern India underscores the urgency to understand the seismicity of the Himalayas and to improve the …

Forests changing more rapidly than expected

Shifts in species composition associated with environmental change and increased biomass have been identified

Election 2014 - updates

Forest, forest, burning bright

It’s time Indian policy makers had a nuanced understanding of forest fires

Gang of bullies

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Utopia ruined

Internet>> CONTRABAND TRADE • The Netherlands

Silencing dissent

Reddit>> Climate Change

Laughing gas

COMMENTARY>>SMOG ÔÇó China

I cycle and I don’t need your sympathy

I take offence to those snotty looks from you on the road as if my vehicle is not legit

A commercial bane

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His country still

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Nervous about gays

Website>> Queer People • Pakistan

Spiderman style protest

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