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Tariff row

WTO invalidates US duty on steel imports

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Antarctic microbes could be rampantly exploited to benefit a few

According to report

Fifteen non-profits take fresh legal action against Europe’s biggest plastics project

This marks a new phase in the over three-year long legal battle against INEOS’ ‘Project One’, a €3 billion plastic project …

‘Dim-witted’ Neanderthals? They were ‘early engineers’ who produced multi-component glues to handle stone tools

Ability to make multi-component adhesives could be first expressions of the modern cognitive processes that are still active today, researchers say

Just what exactly is a polar vortex?

While the weather phenomenon has acquired currency in international media in the last 2 decades, it is much older than is thought

Drought to deluge: Heavy rain causes flash flooding across southern Spain

Rains still continue; this spring had been Spain’s driest on record through May 21

Caste is not unique to India and South Asia. A development in Spain shows how

As Spain agrees to reach a state pact against anti-gypsyism, activists urge a united front for groups discriminated on the basis of work and …

When did modern lizards originate? A beast from the Triassic Period offers answers

‘Cryptovaranoides microlanius’ lived in limestone cracks around Bristol about 250-200 million years ago

Human activities responsible for extreme heatwave events, says new study

Heatwave led to a massive die-off of sea creatures, and a spate of horrific wildfires, according to the study

COVID-19 update: Deltacron & omicron subvariant — 2 looming threats?

COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the United States, countries in Europe and Southeast Asia

COVID-19 resurgence: Cases rise in China, Europe and New Zealand

Hong Kong and New Zealand facing huge waves; situation in Hong Kong similar to India delta wave

Roasted North: Why record-shattering heatwaves are burning the northern hemisphere

The heatwaves in the northern hemisphere are now frequent, early, intense and last longer as seen in Siberia last year and North America this year

Breaking new ground: World’s longest running farm study adds to organic-inorganic debate

The aim of the Broadbalk experiment is to test the effects of different organic and inorganic fertilisers on soil fertility and study the optimum …

Suketu Mehta on immigration

In 'This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto', the veteran author tackles the thorniest issue of our times

Measles cases triple in a year: WHO

More than 180 countries reported 364,808 measles cases between January 1 and July 31 2019. In the same period last year, 129,239 cases were …

Heatwave effect: 2.5 billion people to have air conditioners by 2050

Traditionally cooler or naturally conditioned areas in the US and Europe have reported sale and installation of more air conditioners

Explosion at nuclear plant in northern France injures at least five

The explosion took place in the engine room of the plant owned by a French energy giant Électricité de France

Legal case against Norway for allowing new oil exploration in the Arctic

The government’s decision could lead to the drilling of seven new exploratory wells in the Barents Sea in 2017

Workers' strike in France may bring the country to a standstill

The workers are protesting against the new proposed labour laws in the country, which give more power to individual companies

No way forward in climate negotiations

Developed and developing countries agree to disagree as climate negotiations hit a stalemate in Paris

'New GMO directive provides necessary legal framework to complex issue'

The European Commission says that with the directive, it has listened to the concerns of many European citizens, reflected in the positions …

About 1.3 million children and adults facing water crisis in Ukraine

Low rainfall, coupled with destroyed water-supply system, has worsened shortage in the conflict-hit European country