Child killer

UNITED NATIONS

New heavenly bodies

Responsive to responsibility

Building hope

Recent computer games and individualism

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Beekiller's genes

Defying the code

UNEP set to navigate a new course

The United Nations Environment Programme, which had previously advanced legal instruments to solve global environmental problems, is now …

Two new worlds

'Aid fatigue' in the West is changing the perception of the development paradigm of the poorer countries

Life Under the Sun

Can life countinue to survive on the sun's energy harvested by photosynthesis

Time to wake up

The demand for water and energy is likely to increase at a geometrical rate in the coming years. What are the policy options for a better …

Save the sea

...by encouraging local participation of fisherfolk to arrest overfishing and damage to the eco-system

Should life forms be patented globally?

Patents are monopoly rights granted to the inventors to protect their economic interests. But this becomes complicated when the patent is …

Off to the next round

The South came back reasonably victorious from Rio, it was only because of the poor leadership of USA. The question now is: will it be able to …

What a bloody mess

When the Ebola virus broke on April 10 this year, the scientific world went into a tizzy? It's uncontrollable, it's the big daddy of horror movies,…

इतिहास का सबसे गर्म रहा सितम्बर, पिछले साल से 0.05 डिग्री सेल्सियस अधिक था तापमान

यदि पिछले तीस वर्षों (1981-2010) में सितम्बर के औसत तापमान से तुलना करें तो इस वर्ष तापमान करीब 0.63 डिग्री सेल्सियस अधिक दर्ज किया ...

नदियों से जल्दी उतर जाता है बर्फ का आवरण, वैज्ञानिकों ने जताई चिंता

पृथ्वी की आधी से अधिक नदियां हर साल जम जाती हैं। ये जमी हुई नदियां लोगों और उद्योगों के लिए महत्वपूर्ण हैं तथा ग्रीनहाउस ...

जलवायु परिवर्तन की वजह से अपेक्षा से कहीं अधिक तेजी से गर्म हो रहा है यूरोप

यूरोप में जहां गर्म दिनों की संख्या बढ़ रही है, वहीं सर्दियों के दिन कम हो रहे हैं, जो की एक बड़े खतरे की घंटी है

Accelerating climate change threatens animals’ ability to adapt

Rising global temperatures will negatively impact numerous species vital to function of the natural world    

Now, Arctic’s oldest and strongest ice starts to melt

This ‘last ice area’, which had never seen ice melting, saw its ice break twice this year owing to global warming

The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail

Since the industrial revolution, CO2 levels in the atmosphere have climbed to levels that are unprecedented

Supercomputers map global ocean currents

Scientists have created the most realistic model of ocean currents yet and taken another step towards understanding global climate

Global ills won't find a cure in the market