Environment

Oil-eating microbes are challenged in the Arctic

21 Feb 2018

Bacteria play a major role in cleaning up oil spills and mitigating its environmental impacts. A new review examines the major limiting factors for microbial degradation in Arctic environments

Biodiversity loss raises risk of 'extinction cascades'

20 Feb 2018

Consumer and industrial products now a dominant urban air pollution source

19 Feb 2018

'Excess emissions' make significant contribution to air pollution

19 Feb 2018

Walls, toxicity and explosions: How plant cells protect themselves from salinity in soil

17 Feb 2018

Melting ice sheets in Greenland, Antarctica increasing pace of sea level rise

13 Feb 2018

Sun will dim in next 30 years, warns scientists

12 Feb 2018

Dunkin Donuts to get rid of styrofoam cups by 2020

08 Feb 2018

BARC develops technology to convert sewage into bio-fertilizer

08 Feb 2018

Melting Arctic permafrost would release 15 mn gallons of mercury

08 Feb 2018

An underestimated threat: Land-based pollution with microplastics

07 Feb 2018

What magnets have to do with pistachios

07 Feb 2018

Ozone at lower latitudes is not recovering, despite Antarctic ozone hole healing

06 Feb 2018

Killer whale says ‘hello’ and ‘bye bye’

02 Feb 2018

Strong 6.1 quake kills 1, hurts 22 in Af-Pak; rocks Delhi, northern India

01 Feb 2018

The earthquake was felt in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) region and across large swathes of northern India on Wednesday at 12.40 pm

Could underwater sound waves be the key to early tsunami warnings?

31 Jan 2018

Getting to zero deforestation

30 Jan 2018

Calculating the CO2 emissions of biofuels is not enough

30 Jan 2018

Rare walking fish found off Tasmanian coast

29 Jan 2018

According to experts, the species is one of the rarest fish in the world, and as of now, only 20 to 40 individuals of these fishes have been discovered in the world