Up in smoke

Did fires caused by the Aborigines drive creatures larger than humans to extinction?

Poisonous rats

Birds and mammals are dying after eating rodents which have consumed rodenticides

Dolphins return

Under the weather

Scientists say a change in temperature could play a role in spreading childhood diarrhoea

A red alert

Phytoplankton bloom along the Indian coast threatens marine life

Modified by climate

Global warming has resulted in genetic alternations among living beings

In hot water

GHGs raise ocean temperatures

Double trouble

A deadly moth and a fly create havoc

Your drinking water spiked

Poor performance

Of arsenic removal plants in West Bengal

Exhaustive predicament

Nitrogen dioxide is proving a dificult vehicular emission to control

Sterile charge

Lead exposure causes infertility in men

Plastic busters

A bacteria and a fungus make a formidable pair

Science & Technology - Briefs

Algae alleviates

South African townships that were earlier helpless in the face of pollution caused by human wastes, are now bucking up to the problem. Spirulina, …

Desert blooms

Halophytes - plants growing on saline soil - could be India's Answer to the problems of salt desert and wasteland reclamation, besides Being …

For cleaner air

The US Environment Protection Agency has launched new air pollution standards for particulate matter. Industry will have to gear up

Nowhere to go

What happens to living beings when climate change threatens even national parks and nature reserves

Mangroves' rescue act

Scientists stress that conserving mangroves will provide an important buffer to save coastal regions from the ravages of sea level rise due to …

Warm cold relationship

Earth may have a 1,500-year temperature cycle that is governed by minor changes in the sunlight

Crime and pollution

Accidental radioactivity

Nitrogen overdose

Excessive nitrogen is causing "nitrogen stress" in flora and fauna

Life in the fast lanes

Urban areas are "living organisms" in themselves and create their own ecosystems

Light driving

Solar cars and fuel cell vehicles are these for real?