Pollution and plants

Ecologists reveal that trees are precise indicators of environmental health, as they show specific symptoms with an increase in air pollution

Hollowed out

Coniferous forests of Alaska are being devoured by beetles. Ecologists blame the changing climatic conditions

The burning question

A recent study dispels all that your mother told you about recycling. It says that incineration is the best way to manage waste paper

Forced destruction

Unless affordable technology is provided to the fisherfolk, the survival of Lake Victoria in Kenya will remain under threat

Cool predictions

The link between Atlantic temperatures and an atmospheric effect that influence winters could lead to prediction of stormy winters in Europe

Win some, lose some

Experts debate the phasing out of methyl bromide, a chemical with potent ozone-depleting qualities

Rising green heat

Scientists have discovered a new greenhouse gas, which is thousands of times more effective in trapping heat as compared to carbon dioxide

Book review: Profound primer

Providing a good text is the primary step, now that environmental studies have become a scheduled subject at the graduate level in all …

Toughness that appeals

Dioxin dilemma

Seeding the seas?

Sprinkling powdered iron into the ocean may help reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide

CO2 vanishing

Forests of Europe soak up as much as 280 million tonnes of carbon on annually

Iron, steel, and dioxins

Canada and the US are going to investigate dioxin emissions from iron and steel plants

Dying in isolation

A small group of islands in the Bay of Bengal is being eaten up by the sea

Paints from potatoes

Crabs in the red

Supercolonies of crazy ants threaten the red crabs of Australia's unique Christmas Island

Hurricane happy

Batting the pests out

Horse mystery

A hot planet is bad health

Planet melting

If global warming continues, polar ice caps will melt, wiping nations off our planet

On thin ice

Warm changes

Global warming will affect the vegetation of the Tibetan Plateau

Safe under water

Tiny marine life could be safe from harmful effects of ozone depletion

Less acidic rain

Calcium particles neutralise acid in the atmosphere