Volcano erupts in Hawaii

: Kilauea, the most active of the five volcanoes that form the Big Island in the archipelago, erupted on Thursday, after a series of earthquakes …

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Tripling nuclear energy by 2050 will take a miracle, and miracles don’t happen

It is time to abandon the idea that further expanding nuclear technology can help with mitigating climate change

America’s urban timber movement

Instead of turning trees in urban areas into mulch or sending them to the sawmill, US cities are harvesting them locally, lessening their carbon …

US consumers buying more from mass marketers than grocery stores: study

This could pose a potential health concern to the country, it warns

Politics of business

Civics Course>> Retail • The US

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Blame it on future tense

Language>> Health• US

NYT’s faulty posture

Newspaper>> Yoga • The US

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For love of books

Bookstore>> Economic crisis • The US

Caught in green web

Internet>> Bidding • US  

Origin of child birth

Junk DNA, the precursor of modern mammalian pregnancy

Sign of times

Handwriting>> Policy  • The US

Shifting the blame

About five lakh trees were felled by the IAF last year. Till today, no action has been taken

Not ‘go slow’, need more certainty in electric vehicle pathways

The auto industry slow down must not provoke reactive posturing but spur a firm policy roadmap and a legal mandate in consultation with the …

Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to contest is a victory for Polynesia

Let us, for a moment, forget the Hawaii Congresswoman’s links to Hindu nationalism and instead, focus on her indigenous Pacific roots

What is CoP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s expected from the Glasgow summit

CoP26 will be a complex process, but it’s how international law and institutions can help solve problems that no single country can fix on …

Once-mighty Rio Grande, other New Mexico rivers are ‘most endangered’ in the US: Non-profit

River that forms Mexican-American border endangered due to loss of federal clean water protections

The pill that’s roiling US drug regulation

The hard right is challenging FDA’s authority to regulate drugs with its lawsuit to ban America’s most used abortion pill

From oil to electric: The new energy powerplay and China's growing dominance

China is the largest producer and importer of rare-earth minerals

India grabs fourth seat in cumulative capacity in wind power

Adds 2,623 MW of wind power in 2015

'40 per cent of all US food goes uneaten'

An American throws away, on average, 9 kg of food per month

New meat culture

Engineered meat is peeping out of the labs

A trip down memory lane

Photographs>> Environment • The US