Kochi needs to be declared as the ‘Fisheries Valley of India’ in view of the technologies coming out of the research institutes in and around Kochi, says V. Prakash, CSIR scientist. Mariculture, aqu ...More

Global community is not serious about preserving planet Earth, Union Minister Kapil Sibal said today while unveiling Earth anthem and a short film. The Earth Anthem, written produced and directed ...More

SYDNEY: Scientists will retrace Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911-14 expedition to the Antarctica in November, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) announced on Tuesday. A team of 46 researchers and w ...More

The people of Delhi feel embattled on the environment front - most believe that matters have turned for the worse in the last five years, according to a six- city survey conducted by The Energy and ...More

Imagine a place where food is scarce, where you don’t get three meals a day, let alone your favourite fruits. A place where you have to go to bed hungry because there isn’t anything available to cook. ...More

The Atlantic puffin population is at risk in the United States, and there are signs the seabirds are in distress in other parts of the world. In the Gulf of Maine, the comical-looking seabirds have b ...More

An artist need not be trained to imbibe things around him. Rather the university of life may teach him a lot through his plain and simple observations with a keen eye. For that is the biggest institut ...More

NEW DELHI: India is in the process of acquiring an icebreaker for a whopping Rs.800 crore ($144 million) for conducting scientific and business exploration in the polar regions. The Ministry of Ear ...More

Please elaborate on the scope for plant biologists in the United States. Plant biotechnology has tremendous potential for future growth for global food security, safety and human and environmental he ...More

Did you feel that this year is slightly hotter and more polluted than the last? City scientists have just completed a study of twenty areas in Bangalore that prove beyond doubt the filtering and cool ...More

The State government is planning a number of initiatives, including roping in women in tribal areas, to increase the production of millet in Tamil Nadu. Sources told City Express that millet was prod ...More

There is something sensible and reassuring about the word “organic”. But that’s not the only reason why it has become one of the front-runners in India’s urban vocabulary. The green movement hooks a l ...More

OSLO: Big companies should report their impact on the environment in addition to their earnings under a UN plan to boost economic growth and ease poverty by 2030, according to recommendations by a pan ...More

The number of homes installing cavity wall insulation has crashed by 97% since the government's flagship energy–efficiency scheme was introduced, new figures have revealed. Previous energy-efficiency ...More

The mild winter of 2011-12 may seem a distant memory after this year's big chill, but the warmer temperatures helped the UK achieve a fall in greenhouse gases steeper than any other nation in the Euro ...More

Chief secretary S Roy inaugurated a two-day workshop on “Snow and glaciers and the Himalayan River Systems” being organised by the State Centre on Climate Change of State Council for Science Technolog ...More

Kochi: With climate change becoming a reality for the authorities to tackle, the city corporation is taking up the issue with due seriousness and debating Kochi's resilience and mitigation strategies. ...More

The data available on Indian ecological systems should be used for the development of models for conservation, according to an expert. Inaugurating the short-term course in ‘Integrated Coastal Zone ...More

SURAT: In a new beginning, Surat will soon have 10 automated weather stations along with instruments to monitor pollution levels online. The initiative has been taken by Surat Climate Change Trust (SC ...More

The Antarctic continental ice cap came into existence some 33.6 million years ago, according to new data from an international expedition. The expedition was led by the Andalusian Institute of Eart ...More