Environment
Mumbai marooned; govt declares emergency
30 Aug 2017
With the MeT forecasting “extremely heavy rainfall” in the next 24 to 48 hours, the state government has asked for additional teams of the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) besides the three stationed in Mumbai
Australia to use drones to foil shark attacks
28 Aug 2017
Exxon knew about global warming, but misled public: study
24 Aug 2017
Exxon Mobil misled the public about climate change for years even as its research echoed the growing scientific consensus that global warming is real and caused by human activity, says a new study by Harvard researchers.
Orange is the new green: orange peels revive a forest
23 Aug 2017
An area covered in orange peels in the 1990s turned into a lush forest nearly 20 years later, showcasing the unique power of agricultural waste to regenerate a forest and also to sequester a significant amount of carbon at no cost
Hidden river once flowed beneath Antarctic ice
23 Aug 2017
Global warming: doomsday could be only 3 years away
05 Aug 2017
Although climate change may now rank alongside ISIS as the world’s most feared security threat according to a new Pew report, awareness of the horrors that global warming will unleash in the future is not as widespread as it should be