Blow hot blow cold
North Americans have literally had to face some very rough weather this year After having dealt with a sweltering summer with sky-rocketing …
Salt, the saviour
The consumption of salt is currently being blamed for several health problems like high blood pressure and heart ailments that follow. Even …
Over the threshold
The survival and evolution of a species is dependant on both the competing claimsfor survival being asserted within the species and between …
Gone with the wind
Findings from a recent study conducted in Pakistan and Egypt by researchers from the Imperial College, London, suggest that a secondary pollutant,…
The heat is on
Climate is getting warmer and the effects of global warming are becoming increasingly noticeable in the flora and fauna in the UK
The southern connection
Building up of ice sheets in the far north might be due to strong currents in the South Atlantic
Clean and high
These are skyscrapers with a difference: they can remove large amounts of sulphur dioxide, ozone, soot and other polluting particles from the air
Green sands
Ancient Sahara was wetter and wilder before. Changes in vegetation have played a role in transforming its climate
Exceptional site
Bacteria help precipitate arsenic from the surface water that springs out of mining sites
Within the Earth's guts
The answers to puzzling climatic phenomena may lie inside the Earth and not just in the atmosphere and the sea
Back to the source
Recharging aquifers with treated wastewater is the only hope to meet the water needs of a growing urban population
Enviroguard
In every sphere of human endeavour, the use of biological indicators provides an elegant device, as they do not disrupt the stability of natural …
Springing a surprise
Global warming has led to the early rejuvenation of vegetation in spring, a phenomenon that is causing a change in the annual carbon dioxide …
Waiting for the mud
Mexican vulcanologists are trying to track the path that destructive mudslides, the fallout of an impending volcanic eruption, might take
Peep into the past
A female Sao La belonging to a rare bovid species has been captured for scientific study in Laos's Annamite mountain range. Her discovery has …
With warm regrets
Global warming is causing glaciers on the Himalaya to melt into natural lakes. This threatens the lives of indigenous people and animals
Bear business
The growing demand for bear products might jeopardise the existence of several rare species in Asia
Likes and unlikes
Appearances are deceptive, as the case of honey bees demonstrates. Though physiologically alike, queens and workers among bees can be …
The other side of nitrogen
Excess of any thing is bad, and nitrogen is no exception. The benevolent gas is actually responsible for immense ecological damage
Alternative to the natural
Fuel from plastic wastes and chemicals from grains: researchers in UK experiment with innovative substitutes
Pure stuff
Total water management -- envisaging supply, use and recycling of wastewater -- is what Akshyadhara is all about
Too fast for turtles
The of pace human developmental activities is playing havoc with the largest rookery of the endangered Olive Ridley turtle in Orissa
From the verge of extinction
Several species to be removed from endangered list in the us
Burying in empty space
An old plan to lug deadly radioactive wastes to the remote corners of the solar system is being revived by some Russian scientists
Killed for pills
Their unique biology and widespread use in ethnic medicine makes the conservation of seahorses difficult