Grains of culture

Why China lost out to Europe in industrialisation

Microbes hold the key

Bacteria could play a crucial role in restoring fertile prairies in North America

Fighting fire with fire

Side effects of a drug can be subdued by using another

Women interrupted

Surgical removal of uterus causes unnatural menopause, leads to memory decline

Winds not favourable

Turbines can increase local temperatures

Carbon suckers

Mangroves store four times more carbon than other forests

EXCLUSIVE: Eben Moglen says freedom depends on the Net

Beware of even democratic regimes which want to wiretap

Centre wakes up to Naxal menace

Double standards

Bumps on road fuel cars

Tracing its footprints

A great panic

Overextended banks crashing, leading to recession. 1873 revisited

India signs nuclear convention

Intended as gift to Obama

America’s frozen aid

A commodity from their former colony kept the English cool in 19th century India

A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

Count fish before catch

Identify the weakest link in ecosystem-based management

Another atmospheric river storm is battering California

Emergency declared in the US state; Third such storm to affect it since December 26

This September was the 5th warmest in 142 years: Report

For the Southern Hemisphere, the month was the hottest this year

Wait and watch

The US government is in transition. But why should the rest of the world suffer?

Save nature, do nothing

In some cases, doing nothing is the way to preserve ecology

Poison on the plate

Study links toxins in food products to cancer and other diseases in children

Another leak

Wikileaks>> Nuclear deal • New Zealand/India/US

It's official now

No taker for 43-year-old Save Grain campaign

Caspian tigers may not be extinct