What to expect from India’s INDCs

INDCs may focus on all key elements—including mitigation, adaptation, finance, capacity-building, technology development and transfer, …

Antibiotic for superbugs

Teixobactin, the first antibiotic announced in decades, successfully treats mice infected with superbug Staphylococcus aureus

Invasion triggers evolution

A study on lizards shows evolutionary change can occur swiftly when two closely related species compete

Purifying contaminant

Excessive phosphorus pollutes water bodies, but substantially reduces nitrogen contamination

Darfur pays for its water

In 2006, Slovenian president Janez Drnov?ek sent filmmaker and political activist Tomo Kriznar as a peace envoy to war-torn Darfur. US pressure …

Spill repeats itself

With the 1989 Exxon leak still trickling oil, the Gulf of Mexico puts scientists in the worst fix  

`Growing food is like printing your own money'

Ron Finley grows food and for this he has been branded as a guerilla gardener, a renegede, an ecolutionist. It all began four years ago, when Ron,…

US study finds hundreds of thousands of nanoplastic particles in bottled drinking water

Each litre contained 110,000 to 370,000 particles, 90% of them smaller than microplastics

COVID-19: 7 in 10 Indians believed normalcy would return in a year, claims study

42% Indians believed it would take 4-12 months to contain the pandemic 

Coronavirus update: Delhi’s 2nd sero survey results out, over 28% exposed to virus

The world tally crosses 22 mln

Climate Emergency CoP 25: A storm is brewing on ‘Loss and Damage’

It is different from mitigation and adaptation, and it needs finance

Mind that CDM: Discounting the future

A look at why CDM is not the solution for the poor or for sustainable development

Learning from faults

An early 20th century US earthquake teaches lessons in tectonics

Trial becomes comic

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Betel benefit

Compounds in paan leaf can kill several pathogenic bacteria

Smart farming

How to improve yield in organic farming

Fear instinct

Frogs see common herbicide as predator

Uncertainty of conservation science

Species that need protection are rare, shy and difficult to spot

Carbon capture made easy

Salt, sugar and alcohol can help trap the greenhouse gas

Chemical sours mother's milk

In court

Virus scare

Climate talks inch ahead

Add telaprevir

Breastfeed longer