Plant growth rate determines their vulnerability to changes

Sooty air pollution can cause genetic damage that can be passed along to offspring, Canadian researchers reported in a study on mice. Follow-up work is needed to learn if people can inherit

Carbon-bearing particles, called 'tar balls' have been found to pollute air over Hungary, Indian Ocean and southern Africa by an international team of scientists. Forming in smoke from wood fires and

Global warming may aggravate ozone depletion in Arctic

Four glaciers of the Baspa basin may dry up due to global warming

Uncertainty can never really be eliminated, even in the best of sound science. Science is the tool, not to bring policy reform, but to delay, prevaricate and to dismiss. And scientists are the hired

The administration's alleged hijacking and perversion of science has particularly stark implications for the environment, as pointed out in a recent cover story in The Nation entitled The Junk

One hurdle in the envisioned switch from fossil fuels to a