Science & Technology - Briefs

Why the US is such a bully

US attempts to kill of global democracy are getting more commonplace than ever. In such a political climate, it is impossible to talk about …

Arctic rush driven by desire to control hydrocarbon deposits, shipping routes

Russia's Valley of Geysers reappears after landslide

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Cancun redux

Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial (see: "How not to lose …

Warning from Leh

Leh cloudburst is unusual, say scientists. Such extreme events are rising. What’s wrong?

EU sets new target to save energy by 2030

The Commission wants to achieve energy efficiency of 30 per cent

Situation tense as Tamil Nadu gives go-ahead to Kudankulam Nuclear Plant

Sixteen activists, including two top leaders, are on indefinite hunger strike

It is a chain reaction

But nuclear power won't give up

Hardsell is good

What is being sold?

About energy security

Nuclear hardsell's most potent weapon

Undone

10th climate change meet shows how weak the will to combat global warming has become

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In Obninsk there was a mausoleum

Nuclear power wants to pose as peace, sustainability. But to the world, it has always meant the bomb and danger. What are governments doing to …

World lost 8 per cent of its forests in past 14 years: study

UN plans to restore 150 degraded forests by 2020

Oil leak triggers crisis in Russia

Radiation on Ural mountains

Drug-resistant TB spreading fast, says WHO

Frozen lakes home for influenza virus

Russia denies permit to LNG project

Safety concerns over Russia's oil pipeline

Whaling commission allows Eskimos whale hunting quota

COVID-19 unlockdown is a challenge and an opportunity at the same time

It will generate medium-term challenges but also presents an opportunity to accelerate the shift to more sustainable and equitable growth

Great expectations from Bonn climate talks, but sticky issues need resolving

Drafting a universal climate change agreement enters critical stage of negotiations and streamlining of agreement text