Safe under water

Tiny marine life could be safe from harmful effects of ozone depletion

Less acidic rain

Calcium particles neutralise acid in the atmosphere

Once lost is lost

Bioinspectors

Biomonitoring of contaminants comes of age

Ocean dumps

Threat to dugongs

The massive sea cows are vanishing in India

The theory sinks

Forests do not sequester carbon dioxide efficiently

Meltdown

At snail's pace

Exotic species bring slow death to native ones

Reserved to death

History in the stump

Ancient tree stumps provide picture of world's climate

Catching the infant terrible

Repealing magnets

A relation not to be ignored

Soil moisture influences rainfall pattern of North India

Taste for nuclear waste

A bacterium that mops up uranium

Or weed it out

Using water hyacinth

Act now...

...breathe easier

Hard evidence

Pollution, too much fat, thicken your arteries

Sun-made, problems

Interaction between the sun and the surface waters of the world's oceans are hiking temperatures

In troubled waters

After having forced into extinction many different species of animals, human beings have most recently focused their greed on fishes in the deep …

Alarm as it warms

Higher temperatures the world over do not just result in rising sea levels. According to a recent report produced by scientists from 50 …

Homicide by nuclides

A top secret Soviet nuclear complex contaminated its environs for 40 years, exposing thousands of people in the vicinity to radiation

Top of the world

It's a voyage of discovery as biologists travel to the unexplored stretches of the rainforest canopy, learning more about this "green ocean"

Supergrass

Here is the latest on genetically-modified plants with enough power to neutralise some of the most potent pollutants we know today

Krill kill

Seas around the Antarctic are losing krill -- a crucial part of the marine and terrestrial food chain