The warmer half

Scientists struggle to explain the rapidly rising sea surface temperatures in the Northern Hemispere

Gas gobbling algae

Carbon dioxide emissions from power plants can be reduced by a process involving algae, sunlight, and a little common sense

Dying wetlands

Almost 40 per cent of all wetlands in Assam are under threat

Air pollution

Our cities and small towns are reeling under severe air pollution made worse by the government's muddled approach to air quality planning. Only a …

Butterflies slip off...

...to extinction if natural forests changes character

Championing charcoal

Over wood as cooking fuel

Environmental impact of trash burned in the open grossly underestimated

Developing countries figure prominently in the list of polluters, with China, India and Brazil being the top three   

Beat that heat

Municipalities and citizens in the US could significantly contribute to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

El Nio and health

Climate forecasts could help control disease outbreaks

Universally changing

A recent research throws light on the possibility that the laws of physics were different in the past

Pollution watch

Restoring mangroves

Researchers attempt to reclaim degraded mangrove forests

Frog leap to oblivion

Pesticides are killing frogs and other amphibian species in the US

Done to death

Over fishing has ruined the coasts

Ocean acidification poses more serious threat than previously thought

UK’s chief scientists calls attention to increase in ocean acidification by 25 per cent since pre-industrial levels

Pest control

Mercury-laced food

Sun, sea and snow bring mercury down to the Earth and in the food

Colouring plants

Mythila painting is an innovative media that contain powerful messages of conservation

Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

India’s SO2 emissions up by 71 per cent in 5 years, shows US study

'CPCB underestimating pollution from coal-fired thermal power plants'