News Snippets

Gay by mercury

Water contamination may alter white ibises’ hormones

Trade war over green energy

Japan v Canada; US v China

Dow subsidiary blacklisted

It bribed Indian officials to get approval for pesticides

Wake-up call

A fungus could wipe out American bats

India, Japan pitch for carbon credits from nuclear energy

Non-profits irked. Say lessons not learnt from Fukushima

News 360° - Briefs

A third of US reels under drought

Likely to experience dry spell till at least October 

Eight Western Lowland Gorillas at US safari park down with COVID-19

They are the first known cases of great apes to be infected by the virus

World Food Day: Plant-based diet can fix food inequality, cut premature deaths says report

Plant-based diets can cut down carbon emissions by 30%; wildlife loss by 46%

Some progress, lots left: UN Climate Change annual report

Report ahead of Bonn conference lists opportunities for 2019

India's climate dilemma

Will India toe the US line of capping carbon emissions from farming?

US-based economists win Nobel Prize for groundbreaking work with ‘natural experiments’

Their approach has revolutionised empirical research, says Nobel committee

$1.5 trillion global trade finance gap affecting SDG targets: ADB

Women entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises are the worst-hit

World’s second-largest emitter might leave the first-ever global climate deal

Sweet-heart trouble

Evidence implicating sugar in heart disease builds up

No balanced package for Doha

Bangkok climate talks divided over closure of long-term cooperative action

Pray before you spray

Household cleaning products cause cardiac diseases

Improved stove: a misnomer?

Some emit more black carbon than traditional mud stoves

More grime on teflon

Chemical used in teflon triggers early menopause

US targets China’s wind subsidy

Files complaint in WTO; says China unfairly helping equipment makers

According to report

Surprise move

Pyrrhic victory

Don't eat tuna