New Delhi: For those who believe India is not doing enough to check the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, here is some news that should serve as an eye-opener. Through carbon trading projects under the Clean Development Mechanism, more than 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be avoided by 2012

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New Delhi: The Capital is now looking at installing solar-powered traffic signals at major intersections in the city. With this, traffic jams caused by signals rendered non-functional due to power failure or heavy rain may soon become a thing of the past. The traffic police is also installing invertors for back-up at major points.

Rema Nagarajan | TIG

If a disease can be treated for Rs 10, why would you spend Rs 12,000 for it? That is the question being raised by some doctors on a move to make a vaccine against pneumonia part of the immunisation programme.

Plastic bottles are deadly for your brain
Bisphenol A Found To Impair Learning & Memory

Toronto: Plastic containers may be deadly for your brain. Canadian researchers have found that Bisphenol A (BPA), the chemical used in making plastic containers, might be responsible for impairing many brain functions such as learning and remembering.

They also fear that it could be a factor behind Alzheimer

Noodles Worth Rs 10 Lakh, 10 Water Treatment Plants To Be Distributed In Bihar

Kounteya Sinha | TNN

New Delhi: Maggi

Warm Seas Convert More Energy Into Cyclone Winds

Paris: Global warming is likely to boost the power of the strongest tropical cyclones, a study released on Wednesday says.
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Richard Morgan
Toolik Field Station (Alaska):

As Anne Giblin was lugging fourfoot tubes of Arctic lakebed mud from her inflatable raft to her nearby lab this summer, she said,

State To Undertake Massive Vaccination Drive, Asks Centre For 1L Vials Of Vaccine
Kounteya Sinha | TNN

New Delhi: Spurred by fears of a measles outbreak in the flood-affected districts of Bihar, the state health department has decided to undertake a massive vaccination drive against the highly contagious viral disease from next week.
Speaking to TOI, Bihar

Edinburgh: A new research at the Edinburgh University has suggested that climate change could make Africa