A reliable HIV self-test
Nitika Pant Pai, assistant professor at the department of medicine, McGill University, Canada, and her team have analysed data on acceptability …
Zeroing in on persistent pollutants
Paints and refrigerants have chemicals like polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which are difficult to remove …
Southeast US will bear the worst of this year’s winter, says AccuWeather
This US-based independent weather agency set off gasps of dread and many counter-forecasts last week when it indicated “the return” …
A treaty too many
India is learning that there is a heavy price to be paid for the large number of bilateral investment treaties, or BITs, it has signed in the …
Sunshine sector loses sheen
About 40 kilometres from Delhi, in the bustling real estate market of Noida-Greater Noida, lies the biggest irony that the renewable energy …
Future compromised
The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came …
Secretive tribunals, hidden damages
Canadian academic Gus Van Harten is well known for his efforts to reform the global investment treaty regime through his research papers, …
India’s many investment treaties make it vulnerable
Senior international lawyer Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, who heads the investment programme of the International Institute on Sustainable …
Global, and psycho
If business corporations are the most dominant institutions on Earth today, then what is their nature? This question animates The Corporation, …
After US, rising sea level may soon gobble up an entire island in Canada
Land bigger than 300 football fields has been swallowed by the sea within the span of a few generations
Universe(al) black out?
Computer models mapping the future course of the universe predict its demise; later than sooner!
Potatoes to the rescue
Genetically engineered potatoes can help prevent diabetes and tackle diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis
Interior boundaries
Cracking of a fragment of the earth's crust in Canada provides a snapshot of an amazing geological event
Inquiry into Quebec’s asbestos mining legacy reveals shocking findings
It has witnessed deaths, lack of compensation and safety and lower penalties in contrast to other Canadian provinces
Playing Lego with molecules
Scientists are trying to make designer solids -- substances whose molecules they assemble according to a predetermined plan
Dry run
The number of Pacific salmons that return to their birth place to spawn is decreasing at a dramatic rate. Despite efforts by the Canadian …
HOME AT LAST
After more than 30 years of struggle, the Inuit people of Canada are given more autonomy and the right to self-determination
Wildfires wreak havoc in Canada’s Northwest territories, Spain’s Tenerife
While Spanish authorities evacuated over 3,000 people since August 16, 2023, residents of Yellowknife hurried to hit an evacuation deadline
Air pollution pushes mortality in Canadians: Study
This is despite the fact that the country has one of the lowest levels of air pollution in the world
Making clothes more comfortable
A mathematical theory may result in an objective technique to evaluate both the comfort of a fabric and how it will behave over time
Revitalised role forecast for people's movements
It is becoming possible to utilise the capacities that exist outside the state -- such as non-governmental organisations -- to influence state …
Free trade pact raises environmental fears
A common market linking Mexico, the United States and Canada could very well result in US firms heading north or south to escape strict pollution …
Fishing for solutions
Canada and the European Union silence their cannons in their face-off over Atlantic fishing grounds
Ticketless travel
Electronic tickets are fast becoming popular in the us and Canada
The science of sugar: why we’re hardwired to love it and what eating too much does to your brain – podcast
‘We have this really deep-seated attraction to sugar that throughout evolutionary history was a really important advantage’