The Cantonment Board, Shillong has undertaken a project on its own with confiscated plastic recovered from various shops to construct a molten plastic liquid tar road in a stretch of four km.

Summer monsoons that provide up to 80 percent of the water South Asia needs have gotten drier in the past half century, possibly due to aerosol particles spewed by burning fossil fuels, climate sci

Precipitation has dropped owing to human-influenced aerosols: study

Human activity that spews out fine particles into the atmosphere could be taking a toll on the Indian monsoon, leading to a decline in recent decades, say researchers in a paper being published online by the journal Science .

Rains in India will start subsiding in the next two days, the weather department said Thursday, calming concerns of crop damage due to the monsoon lasting longer than usual.

According to scientists, evaporated water helps in cooling earth as a whole, not just the local area of evaporation, a study said.

A new study by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated that evaporation of water from trees and irrigated crop areas could cool the planet which could have major implications on decision making for land use.

Clouds only amplify climate change, says a Texas A&M University professor in a study that rebuts recent claims that clouds are actually the root cause of climate change.