Penguin graveyard

Climate change kills emperor penguins in the Antarctic

Russian nuclear attack

Radioactive Russian weed gets out of hand

Rock of great hope

Local rock formations help Mexicans to remove arsenic from water

Toxic detectors

DNA can be used to detect dangerous metals

Dead sea of Japan

Homeward bound

Some fish return to the reefs where they spawn. The idea is to maintain genetic distinction

Bark with a bite

Eucalyptus helps remove chromium

UK birds hit

By climate change

Parbati glacier shrinks

May affect the flow of Beas river

Light boosts fish fertility

Claims a study on Catla catla

Gender bender

Low oxygen induces sex change in fish

Restore wetlands

To reduce threat of avian flu, says UNEP report

Farming is cool

Agriculture lessens the effect of global warming, claims study

Manning the groves

Studies conducted on the Vietnamese coast reveal that mangroves are among the best defences one could put up against the ravages of the sea

Bad news from above

A new space-borne instrument helps NASA scientists come to a 'comprehensive' conclusion that the earth is being exposed to increasing amounts of …

From the frying-pan to fire

Sweden may be trying hard to control the phenomenon of acid rain, but the end result is another crisis at hand - a dwindling Population of the moose

Near but not dear

A recent study conducted by the World Wide Fund for Nature- International on birds in the Midway Islands proves that pollution too makes the …

Facing- rough weather

Scientists are making gloomy predictions that rising temperatures shall jeopardise not just human health but our crops as well

Low on mussel power

Ecological imbalance in the coastal areas of Kerala has caused food poisoning in people who consumed marine mussel

The killer mines

Open cast mining activity in Rajasthan has played havoc with the environment and is killing workers slowly

Virus on prowl

A virus is being used to cull the rabbit population in Australia. But will it affect other animals and spoil the ecosystem?

Metal maniacs

Genetically-modified trees could be soaking up poisonous metals from the ground in the near future or even mine for precious ones

Rooster calls no more

The tasty meat of a breed of poultry unique to Jhabua is turning out to be the its greatest enemy in the fight for survival

Toxic tides

Phytoplankton are wrecking marine ecology as scientists struggle to find a way to stop further attacks

Amazonian secrets

Hundreds of ridges that crisscross the rainforests of South America have helped flora and fauna proliferate, says a latest study