At a time when the worse drought in 60 years is drying out entire areas in Spain, scientists from three European countries are building a greenhouse that can function with almost no external water
The Qinghai-Tibet plateau, dubbed ''the roof of the world'', is moving north-east at seven to 30 millimetres a year, a Chinese researcher has announced. ''The plateau is moving because it's being
The discovery of a bed of plants that lay frozen under a Peruvian glacier for thousands of years points to dire consequences from climate change today, according to Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist.
A scientist at the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology here, claims to have developed a cost-effective method for domestic and individual drinking water treatment, using a silver wire.
Australian scientists have developed a technique to use waste plastic in steel making, a process that could have implications for recycling scrap metal that accounts for 40 percent of steel
A bird species found in some parts of Western Alaska is believed to emit a natural mosquito repellent with properties similar to DEET, the key ingredient in many commercial repellents. Hector
The loss of once-plentiful wolves in a part of Canada's west allowed the elk population to mushroom, pushing out beavers and songbirds and showing the importance of top predators, Canadian
A new catalyst has been created to destroy nitrophenols, some of the most pervasive and toxic pollutants in wastewater discharges. The catalyst was developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon
