Self cleansing

Drug abuse

Can render ineffective the only antimalarial medicine against Plasmodium falci

Asian scientists on new plan to study monsoon patterns

Toxic tides

Phytoplankton are wrecking marine ecology as scientists struggle to find a way to stop further attacks

Searing spell

Current heat wave is not just an aberration, feel experts

Bytes

US undermines scientists in assessing chemicals

Anders Levermann on geopolitics of climate change

Professor at Germanys Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Anders Levermanns interests range from monsoon in India to glacier …

Pollution and plants

Ecologists reveal that trees are precise indicators of environmental health, as they show specific symptoms with an increase in air pollution

A pioneer in many ways

Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud

ICAR’s top research institutes and GEAC exposed in Bt cotton research scam

Public Funded R&D Bill may benefit the private sector

Rice fields as carbon sinks

A study by Indian scientists finds lowland flooded rice ecosystems can store vast amounts of carbon but the jury is still out on whether these …

Environment scientist Robert Goodland on Utkal mining project

For a clean ganga

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Cadmium and cancer

New study offers strong support for a link

GM food debate hots up again

Gilles-Eric Seralini, one of the first scientists to warn the world about the dangers of genetically modified food, counters pro-GM scientists in …

Indian Science Congress' failed attempt at relevance

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Plastic Peril

Waste management is key to keeping the oceans free of plastic waste, new research suggests

Remote control

Reduced Himalayan snow cover affects marine life in the Arabian Sea

Uranium traces in Punjab children

The search for the source has just begun

A plant breeder comes into his own

Awards are finally coming to K Vinod Prabhu, 54, a plant breeder, for his work on building resistance in wheat, mustard and rice through the …

US drug authority rejects plea to ban antibiotics in animal feed

Claims withdrawal process expensive and resource intensive