Environment

Would a carbon tax help to innovate more-efficient energy use?

28 Aug 2019

Nuclear winter would threaten nearly everyone on Earth

28 Aug 2019

Scientists use a new method to track pollution from cooking

26 Aug 2019

Arctic could be iceless in September if temps increase 2 degrees

14 Aug 2019

Air pollution can accelerate lung disease as much as a pack a day of cigarettes

14 Aug 2019

Making microbes that transform greenhouse gases

14 Aug 2019

Navy mobilised for rescue and relief as floods worsen in Maharashtra, Karnataka

09 Aug 2019

African smoke is fertilizing Amazon rainforest and oceans, new study finds

31 Jul 2019

Increasing value of ivory poses major threat to elephant populations

31 Jul 2019

Floods leave 166 dead across Assam and Bihar; affect around 11.1 million people

22 Jul 2019

Rising CO2, climate change projected to reduce availability of nutrients worldwide

22 Jul 2019

Pokemon-like card game can help teach ecology

18 Jul 2019

NGT gives polluting industries 3 months to comply with regulations

17 Jul 2019

While regulation of polluting industries has been on a slow lane, matters came to the fore after a joint investigation by central and Uttar Pradesh pollution control boards commissioned by the NGT found industrial units spewing pesticides, chlorinated solvents, petroleum chemicals, mercury PCBs, dioxins and other persisting organic pollutants all around

NE floods affect 11.3 million people, submerge 95% of Kaziranga Park

16 Jul 2019

Thirty years of unique data reveal what's really killing coral reefs

16 Jul 2019

Online calculator shows how trees can improve air quality and cut health costs

15 Jul 2019

Gene identified that will help develop plants to fight climate change

15 Jul 2019

California to create $21-bn fund to fight wildfires

12 Jul 2019

Indian Ocean causes drought and heatwaves in South America

11 Jul 2019

Global farming trends threaten food security

11 Jul 2019

Goats can distinguish emotions from the calls of other goats

11 Jul 2019

France, Netherlands plan tax on outbound flights in emission fight

09 Jul 2019

Ola Electric raises $250 million from SoftBank

02 Jul 2019

Ola’s move also supplements government’s ambitious target of 30 per cent overall electric mobility by 2030 and 40 per cent EV target for ride-sharing companies by 2026, in order to curtail air pollution and carbon emissions

Torrential rains flood Mumbai’s rail tracks and roads: derail traffic

01 Jul 2019

Damage to the ozone layer and climate change forming feedback loop

25 Jun 2019

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