The Amazon’s tallest tree just got 50% taller – and scientists don’t know how

At 88m tall, it dwarfs the previous record holders by almost 30 m

'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

Art from gaol

GRAPHIC NOVEL>>AIDS • The US

Environment beats retreat

New York Times>> Environment • The US

Fisheye view

Complex interplay of several factors decides fisheries’ fate

Blame spam

E-mail>> Occupy Movement • The US

Climate denier’s ally

Advertisement>> Climate Change • The US

Bloggers aren’t journos

Bloggers>> Lawsuit • US

Memoirs of a plant

Plants remember their past. Dehydrate them to find out

Alien hunt gets serious

Website>> Extraterrestrial species • US

News Snippets

Bitter enemies, virtual friends

Embassy>> Politics• The US/Iran

Tough on blog

Blog>> Court Verdict • The US

Costly lies get good press

Website>> Water utility • The US

Bishop’s call for media fast

Social Media>> Religion • Brazil

Checking cholera with salt

CENTRAL AMERICA

Mexico

Answers from an asteroid

Alter-ego

AIDS in 1908

Not revolutionary

The world of fungi