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On the rocks for a century

Whiskey bottle >> History • Antarctica

Sooty energy

Documentary>> Coal • the US

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Plastic interest

The lie of the land

The Bhakra Nangal project's success is rooted in myth, says a new study

Coal a human history

ONLINE

Film on the making of sensitive myelin sheaths

Gas about oil

Two paragraphs too many

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Mother Chokie

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New medias triumph

All at sea

Bloggers bust BP

Photograph>> Oil Spill • The US

A chip to block

FT goes into a Shell

ADVERTISEMENT>> OIL • UK

Nearly half of teen respondents in Delhi-NCR addicted to internet: Study

CRY research claims internet addiction increases with age; was greater among those with private rooms, access to personal mobile devices

Famine creeps in on Africa while the world’s media looks elsewhere

The western media's focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine …

Demystifying science

To promote public understanding of science, it is essential not only to initiate openness and dialogue between the scientific community and the …

Reach out to the common man

Kiran Karnik , Managing Director, Discovery Channel talks to Amit Shanker on ways to popularise environment issues

REDD and REDD +: An Overview

Shankar Gopalakrishnan, from the Campaign for Survival and Dignity, stresses that REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest …

Book review: Water: Perspectives, Issues, Concerns

This is a work of encyclopaedic scope. The subjects it deals with range from an in-depth study of the treatment of water in the Indian …