How a Kerala couple built a sustainable mud house of their dreams

Hari and Asha built their eco-friendly home at just Rs 4 lakh

Do you want to cut your Carbon footprint after death?

Recompose offers human composting, or natural organic reduction as a greener alternative to burial, cremation

WATCH: The human and economic costs of air pollution

New report pegs economic cost of such pollution at $8 bln / day

Fast radio bursts: The mystery deepens

Research by Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment and Fast Radio Burst Project finds repeated pattern to FRBs

Why do bats keep cropping up during virus outbreaks

The more bats are under stress, the greater is the risk from viruses

Watch: How water droplets can generate power

Vibration from water droplets hitting piezoelectric material can generate electricity

Every drop counts: How a cooperative turned 250 acres of Dharmapuri green

Cooperative forest in Tamil Nadu’s drought-prone area an example of the power of water conservation

Why ozonization to treat drinking water can be dangerous

Rapid thaw of permafrost can release large volumes of greenhouse gases

Scientists have warned that vast swaths of permafrost across the Arctic may thaw much before the current projections, releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere

Locust attack: India faces worst-ever pest invasion

Apart from India, the pests have attacked 60 countries including Pakistan and Somalia, that have declared national emergencies

Economic Survey 2019-20: 'Thalinomics in a hungry India'

It is an attempt to quantify what a common person pays for a Thali in India, according to the Economic Survey 2019-20

Coronavirus spreads to 16 countries, India asks its citizens not to travel to China

6,078 cases of infection and 132 deaths have been confirmed

Farm suicides: Women farmers demand a secure life

There is a wide variation in the R&R package given by different states, they say

Climate change: Will it spur the next financial crisis

BIS, the umbrella organisation of central banks, recently warned on global financial stability

Watch what new ILO report predicts on unemployment

Unemployment will rise by 2.5 million says International Labour Organization's World Employment and Social Outlook: 2020  

Mosquitoes genetically modified to combat dengue

For the first time mosquitoes have been engineered to fight all 4 known types of dengue 

Climate change is the greatest threat to the planet

World Economic Forum's 'Global Risks Report 2020' and UN's 'Global Economic Prospects' claim extreme weather and loss in biodiversity will disrupt the global economy

Watch: What 30 years of Hubble has meant for humanity

The telescope has been the eyes of astrinomers above the Earth's atmosphere

Taal volcano creates emergency in the Philippines

Taal is located 60 kilometres south of Manila, on the island of Luzon and is one of the smallest volcanoes in the country

After ebola, measles now devastates DR Congo

Since June 2019, 310,000 Congolese have suffered the disease

World's most efficient lithium sulphur battery developed in Australia

The battery has five times the capacity of a traditional lithium ion battery. It can retain 99 per cent of its charge even after 200 charge cycles

Why is the world on fire?

From Australia to Africa to Siberia, forest fires are burning across much of the world