Chemicals in daily use products cause as much pollution as vehicles: study

A study conducted in 33 industrial cities in Europe and the US shows that chemicals in pesticides, adhesives, cleaning agents and personal care …

This September was the 5th warmest in 142 years: Report

For the Southern Hemisphere, the month was the hottest this year

McDonald’s USA to stop sourcing chickens raised with antibiotics

Sourcing of antibiotic-free chicken is catching up in the US, setting an example for Indian retail food companies

Climate change impacts: the message for investors

Estimating global economic impact of climate change and the cost of GHG mitigation is difficult, but governments and private investors would have …

He had a dream and a copyright

Martin Luther King's seminal speech on Black rights in 1963 is still not in the public domain because of strict copyright enforcement

Biological heart pacemakers could be a reality in near future

Scientists convert ordinary heart cells in pigs into pacemaker cells by injecting a gene

The World After

'Cheap gas makes renewables appear less attractive'

Researcher and professor at University of Maryland, Klaus Hubacek, explains the costs of the natural gas boom in terms of its impact for overall …

Recession, not natural gas, was major cause of drop in US emissions

A recent study shows that the US power sector’s coal-to-gas switch played only a modest role

Future of clean coal: murky?

The Kemper power project in the US, based on ‘clean coal technology’, attempts to show the way

Inventors of blue LEDs win Nobel Prize in physics

Their invention could help provide light to billions of people who still have no access to electricity

Almost 230,000 elephants killed for tusks in less than six years, reveals new report

'Out of Africa' seeks to fill the knowledge gap on how the trade functions in an organised way and shows ways it can be curbed

Weedy resistance

Sublimating climate change

Greening for good?

Global warming increases vegetation cover in the Northern Hemisphere

Taking the US to democracy

Private healthcare 20 times costlier than public healthcare: study

Despite high cost of treatment, private sector still takes care of 80 per cent of all outpatient care and about 60 per cent of all inpatient care

UN climate talks: little progress in first week

No consensus on Green Climate Fund, loss and damage arising from climate change impacts

How not to lose all

India’s sanitation campaign has not improved health of people: study

Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan did not help reduce exposure to faecal germs and diseases. Will Swachh Bharat Abhiyan fare any better?

Coronavirus versus democracy: 5 countries where emergency powers risk abuse

The global pandemic claimed its first democracy on March 30

3.1 million children under five die of malnutrition annually

Study says child mortality linked to maternal undernutrition, obesity

Roadmap for an effective environmental regime

Nivit Kumar Yadav reports on how different countries are tackling environmental pollution and the lessons in it for India

India’s SO2 emissions up by 71 per cent in 5 years, shows US study

'CPCB underestimating pollution from coal-fired thermal power plants'

Words are biotic

Is it a coincidence that areas of linguistic plurality are also areas of biodiversity?