Environment

‘Human safari’ row goes to India’s Supreme Court

09 Jan 2013

Coral Records Suggest that Recent El Nino Activity Rises Above Noisy Background

07 Jan 2013

Transocean to pay $1.4 bn for 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill

05 Jan 2013

British oil giant BP, which had leased the rig at the time of the blowout, had already agreed to pay a penalty of $4.5 billion

Pacific tremour prompts tsunami warning in Alaska, British Columbia

05 Jan 2013

Warming temperatures will change Greenland’s face

05 Jan 2013

Himalayas could see massive earthquakes: Experts

01 Jan 2013

EPA announces stiffer standard for soot pollution

15 Dec 2012

BHP Billiton, ExxonMobil to spend $1 billion on excess carbon treatment at new gas fields in Victoria

15 Dec 2012

UK government greenlights shale fracking

14 Dec 2012

Clean-up makes Gulf of Mexico spill 52 times more toxic

12 Dec 2012

If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was an ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up apparently made it even worse

Powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake shakes northeast Japan

07 Dec 2012

There were no reports of any major damage or injuries from the earthquake, which was centered off the Miyagi  prefecture in northeast Japan at a depth of 10 km

L&T’s wind energy project gets green certification under UN climate convention

03 Dec 2012

IIT Kanpur, EU agency join hands to clean up Ganga

01 Dec 2012

Researchers use GPS tracking to monitor crab behaviour

24 Nov 2012

Innovative energy project set to use cosmic rays for monitoring CO2 storage sites

23 Nov 2012

Airborne particles smuggle pollutants to far reaches of globe

21 Nov 2012

Pollution from fossil fuel burning and forest fires reaches all the way to the Arctic, even though it should decay long before it travels that far

Smartphones and high-tech laboratories to reveal health effects of environmental pollutants

19 Nov 2012

Australian government to cut back on solar panel subsidies

16 Nov 2012

US food giant Bunge accused over biofuel ‘tainted with Indian blood’

14 Nov 2012

Climate-induced migration often for short distances, cyclical, not global

14 Nov 2012

Yamuna a drain with no fresh water: Pollution body

10 Nov 2012

Argentine court orders seizure of Chevron’s assets to enforce $19-bn Ecuadoran ruling

08 Nov 2012

An Argentine court has ordered to seize US oil giant Chevron Corp's assets in the country in order to carry out an Ecuadorean court ruling that awarded $19 billion to plaintiffs in an environmental damage lawsuit in the Amazon

Earth sunblock only needed if planet warms easily

By By Mary Beckman, PNNL | 31 Oct 2012

Study into sea level rise due to fossil fuels

30 Oct 2012

New understanding of Antarctica’s weight-loss

30 Oct 2012