News Snippets

I compete with birds

When Peter Kaestner is not holding visa interviews at the US Embassy in Delhi, he prefers nurturing his ambition of spotting all the 10,000 …

Nailing melamine

Sponge it clean

All at sea

Nitrogen? Warming?

Enough of carbon talks. Heres a new element with potential

Billions of dollars, 50 years later

Small pox vaccine might have countered HIV  

Will there be gas at the end of it?

Iran-Pakistan (and US) pipeline politics

The wisdom of the unlettered

One month in, how Biden has changed disaster management and the US COVID-19 response

In direct contrast to his predecessor, US President Joe Biden is treating this as a national-scale crisis requiring a comprehensive national …

Biden is inheriting a wrecked economy, but Democrats have a record of avoiding recession and reducing unemployment

Since Eisenhower assumed presidency in 1953, the economy measured by GDP, unemployment, inflation & recessions has done better …

One in three large American rivers has changed colour in the last 34 years: Study

Most rivers in the United States appear green or yellow possibly due to human activities

How Biden and Kerry could rebuild America’s global climate leadership

John Kerry’s decades of experience and the international relationships he developed as a senator and secretary of state may give him a …

Did Death Valley just hit the highest temperature recorded ever

The all-time highest temeparature ever was recorded more than a century ago, but that reading has been challenged 

Gas flaring: An emission that escapes global attention

Gas flaring results in 400 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent emission every year and hit highest levels in a decade recently

African countries need to seize opportunities created by US-China tensions

This will require a great deal of imagination and courage

A dirty US fight to control WIPO

China loses to Singapore in American smear campaign but the US will have to contend with an IP powerhouse

1990 से लेकर अब तक 17.8 करोड़ हेक्टेयर जंगल हो चुके हैं ख़त्म

यदि पृथ्वी पर हर इंसान के हिस्से का हिसाब लगाए तो प्रति व्यक्ति के हिसाब से 0.52 हेक्टेयर जंगल बाकी हैं

This winter was United States’ 6th warmest: NOAA

According to US science agency, December 2019-February 2020 was mostly warmer and wetter across contiguous US 

Look back at the decade: Globalisation

A series to highlight crucial points in the second decade of the new millenium: Here's looking at how ultra-localism started to …

केंद्र के उदय ने बिगाड़ा राज्यों का बजट, पांच साल में कर्ज हुआ दोगुना से अधिक

भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक की रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है कि बिजली कंपनियों की हालत में सुधार करने की वजह से राज्य सरकारों की आर्थिक ...

Doha Getaway: World on line for new regime, US on track to escape

Two weeks of intense climate negotiations ended rather dramatically at Doha on December 8, 2012.

The logjam continues

George W. Bush gets a hostile reaction from the European Union on his stubborn stand regarding the Kyoto Protocol

Time to tell them off

Nobody needs a fair and effective treaty more than the South, but they arent getting it. They should tell the North to listen, or go home.

Factsheet: Extreme Weather Events

The number of extreme weather events is rising alarmingly across the world—increase in  heatwave frequency and the number of warm days …