75 years of Japan atomic bombings: An open letter from people of the US

We promise to keep raising our voices to our government regarding the importance of keeping arms control treaties, they wrote

Power for the future

The Institute of Plasma Research in Gujarat is working to make power generation from nuclear fusion a reality.

Molecules made to order

Restructuring molecules for specific purposes -- be it symmetry of design or to develop medicinal drugs -- has come of age in India.

Speeding up in the fast lane

India's largest particle accelerator installed in Delhi is a boon for scientists studying the behaviour of particles at high speeds.

A ray of hope for leprosy patients

Two groups of Indian scientists have developed anti-leprosy vaccines that they claim are also effective in helping victims recover.

A dangerous club

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Kovvada nuclear power plant will displace about 8,000 people

Andhra government declares five villages in Srikakulam district as project affected

High court stays land acquisition for Kovvada nuclear power plant

Petitioner alleges violation of norms, demands land acquisition should be permitted only after environmental clearances are secured

Supreme Court petitioned to stall proposed nuclear plants

Former bureaucrats, scientists,  say government pushing dangerous nuclear power programme without assessing safety or comparing cost with …

Simply Put: 75 years of Hiroshima

Japan earthquake triggers Fukushima meltdown fear

The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at 6.9, down from an initial 7.3

Will there be gas at the end of it?

Iran-Pakistan (and US) pipeline politics

Supreme Court declines to stay fuel loading in Kudankulam nuclear plant

Agrees to examine risks associated with the project

The nuke bazaar calls

An open nuclear industry would hardly indicate that India hasachieved desired safety levels

Floating nuclear plant

Hazardous decision

Fat men and little boys

Atomic arsenals and the state of nuclear power play today

Let's not chase the atom

Nuclear power is expensive and unsafe, nuclear weapons are barbarous. We don't need them

South Asia

‘The difference between Chernobyl and Fukushima wildlife is the wolf is extinct in Japan’

Down To Earth speaks to James Smith from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom about the proliferation of wildlife in the two …

Authorities move a step closer to mining the Aravallis for uranium

After traces of uranium and other mineral deposits were found in the mountain range in preliminary findings, a second phase of survey is being …

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

Poison leak

The recent radioactive water leak in Tarapur has caused a furore and caught the authorities by their neck

A journalistic path to government

UK environment minister Chris Huhne’s green views may make Tories see red  

Nuclear utility grabs land

Public sector NPCIL encroaches upon mango plantations near its Ratnagiri plant