LONDON: Earthworm poop could provide a window into past climates, allowing scientists to piece together the prevailing weather conditions thousands of years ago, researchers say. A laboratory st ...More

Energy security is a much discussed topic and is a vital element of energy policy as well as foreign policy. But it has not been defined precisely. This book starts with a working definition: ‘‘ener ...More

Nearly three decades ago, we moved to Madras. It was a bicycle-friendly city back then, with its flat terrain and wide roads, and footpaths to walk on. I first bought a bicycle to go to work at the ...More

GUWAHATI: British high commissioner Sir James Bevan said the dividend of prevailing peace in the northeast is evident in the development that the region has been experiencing. At an interactive pro ...More

WASHINGTON: The world typically sees about 90 tropical cyclones a year, but that number could increase dramatically in the next century due to global warming, a US scientist said Monday. Rising gr ...More

Pune, July 9: Reliance Power's 100 MW concentrated solar power project in Rajasthan has received approval for carbon credits under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This ...More

New Delhi: India, where flooding killed more than 1,000 people last month, plans to increase spending on flood forecasting and river management five-fold to Rs3,369 crore ($555 million) over the next ...More

While popular scientific speculation about the devastating floods in Uttarakhand tend to attribute them to a torrential ‘cloudburst’, a senior climatologist with the Indian Institute of Science has co ...More

US Vice President Joe Biden would kick off the two-day US-China Strategic and Economic dialogue (SED) later this week, which would focus on energy security and climate change, in addition to the conte ...More

VISAKHAPATNAM: The No-Vehicle Day being observed every month by Andhra University is a move in the right direction but will have little impact on the increasing carbon footprint on the campus, feel ex ...More

The waste-to-energy industry is trying to relocate itself in India and China taking advantage of lax regulations and low awareness of the hazards of incineration Those thirsty for good news on the en ...More

Environmentalist Sunita Narain, director-general of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), is a keen proponent of green and sustainable development across the country. Excerpts from an intervie ...More

The International Food Policy Research Institute's (IFPRI's) 'Vision 2020' envisages a world "where every person has access to sufficient food to sustain a healthy and productive life, where malnutrit ...More

Steven Chu was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics jointly with compatriot William D Phillips and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of France for "developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light". ...More

The Uttarakhand tragedy is the face of climate change in India. Start expecting severe weather occurrences, very high or low, unseasonal temperatures and precipitation and rising sea levels. Just thi ...More

The floods in the Himalayas have been ferocious and deadly. The final body count could run into several thousands. There is no clear estimate of the number of villages wiped out, property destroyed, r ...More

The Planning Commission has approved a scheme to strengthen domestic scientific research on climate change and improve capabilities of state governments to understand and mitigate the global phenomen ...More

The Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting 2013, with green chemistry as its theme, concluded on July 6. NarayaniGanesh reports from Lindau, Germany. What is green chemistry? It is a term coined by Paul An ...More

Heriot-Watt University, based in Edinburgh, has officially opened a new research centre that covers the entire carbon capture and storage chain, allowing researchers to study not only carbon capture b ...More

CUTTACK: Was the disaster in Uttarakhand a result of climate change? Will we see more natural disasters in coming years due to climate change? How can we save energy and conserve water? These were som ...More