Monsoon season enters last lap
Withdrawal period extended as the southwest monsoon fails to follow its timetable for bidding adieu
Phailin(g) to tell the story
The dead make a better story than the living. Failure of media to continue reporting Phailin will take the pressure off administration to provide …
DNA and grey cells
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Heart to heart
A tongue-in-cheek report of a conversation overheard at a bar during a meeting of the Commission for Sustainable Development.
Have we forgotten Rio already?
India has failed in the basic work that it needed to do even before going to Rio -- define the pathway of sustainable development for itself
Riding the waves
Adaptive sampling, a new oceanographic technique, will provide an accurate picture of complicated coastal environments
Interior boundaries
Cracking of a fragment of the earth's crust in Canada provides a snapshot of an amazing geological event
Hammer of God
The collision of a meteorite with the Earth produced energy about a million times more than the largest earthquake ever recorded
UK group to send unmanned robotic landing module to moon
The project, Lunar Mission One, aims to raise £500m for the project from donations by the public
Use these maps to see how dams are destroying rivers across the world
The interative created by a non-profit illustrates shows decades of dam-building has put river basins like the Mississippi, Yangtze, Amazon and …
Has comet ISON survived sun’s heat?
If the comet still exists, people on the Earth could witness a spectacular show in the night sky in December
Six of 9 planetary boundaries have been breached because of human activities: Study
This does not imply immediate disaster but raises the risk of setting processes in motion that will likely irreversibly change overall …
Earth may have been covered by global ocean 3 bn yrs ago: Scientists
The findings could help understand how single-cell organisms first emerged on Earth, according to scientists
India can’t be malnutrition-free by 2022: DTE’s annual report
The government’s Poshan Abhiyaan’s implementation is poor and targets are unambitious, according to the State of India’s …
Have human-made changes heralded a new epoch?
Experts have proposed that the new epoch—Anthropocene—began around 1950, when human-induced changes started affecting earth's geology
Water, water, everywhere—where to drink in the solar system
Ice is everywhere in the solar system and there may even be liquid water beneath the surface of a number of planets. But could we ever get to it?
Will Parliament pass controversial land and mining bills?
As opposition parties join hands in Parliament against the Modi government's land bill, a perspective on what gave rise to land conflicts in India.…
Changing landscape
Land devoted to non-agricultural use has increased three-fold since Independence. It is set to increase further and faster, according to this …
Understanding climate change
Did climate change begin with industrialisation? How do we identify ‘bad’ climate change?
Waste quandary
A waste management expert voices his concerns about our misguided and selective approach to cleanliness
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
US approves better sunscreens to reduce cases of skin cancer
In Europe, ingredients are regulated as cosmetics, but in the US, sunscreens go through a process similar to drug approval, says news report
India’s role in increasing access to HCV drugs
Early intervention by the Indian government and civil society will be essential to overcome patent barriers to ensure that the new drugs …
Police begins probe into Mahan dispute on high court order
Residents of Amelia village say their signatures were forged to show they had given consent to mining project of Hindalco and Essar