Made to order plants that eat pollutants

A long awaited breakthrough has been made with a decision to establish the first secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty System in Argentina, 40 years after the treaty came into force. A blocking veto

WORTHY GRAINS FROM THE BILL: • Gives farmers a legal sanction to sell the varieties they have evolved over the years • Farmers are also recognised as breeders

Vanishing coastlines may not be the only peril in a warming world; disease-carrying Asian tiger mosquitoes may find the hotter temperatures more to their liking and may show up in places they've

Aerosols trap heat and increase temperatures

Solar plants have proved to be a great boon for villagers of Sunderbans who relied on kerosene wick lamps

Water body and trees around the building provide cooling effect

Drinking water in some parts of northern Vietnam is contaminated with arsenic levels 50 times higher than the set standards, according to a recent study. Due to this, more than 11 million people are

an environmental nightmare is how the environmentalists describe a recent proposal of British Nuclear Fuels ( bnfl ). The company plans to build an aboveground nuclear waste dump in the heart

Water minimises the climatic effects of a cooler or warmer sun suggests Hsien-Wang Ou, researcher at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, USA. The Sun has got about 30 per cent hotter