Environment
Chennai limps back day after Cyclone Vardah left 6 dead
13 Dec 2016
The first 'very severe cyclonic storm' to hit the city and the first cyclone in city since 1994, Vardah left 6 people, including 4 women and a 3-year-old child dead in Chennai and another person in Kanchipuram and left 2,810 trees uprooted
The role of climate change in historic drought
13 Dec 2016
Where the rains come from
02 Dec 2016
Adani unveils the world’s largest solar power plant in Tamil Nadu
30 Nov 2016
With 648 MW of generation capacity, India takes over the mantle of the world’s largest single solar power plant from the Topaz Solar Farm in California, which has a capacity of 550 MW
Wildfires force evacuation of 2 Tennessee towns
29 Nov 2016
Oceans act as 'heat sink'
24 Nov 2016
Japan rocked as quake triggers tsunami near Fukushima site
22 Nov 2016
The magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in the same region that was devastated by a tsunami that followed a much larger magnitude 9.0 quake in 2011, killing some 18,000 people
Who knew? Ammonia-rich bird poop cools the atmosphere
19 Nov 2016
The presence of summertime bursts of atmospheric particles linked to ammonia emissions from seabird-colony guano can spread throughout the Arctic, fostering cloud-droplet formation, and in turn reflect sunlight back to space for a net cooling effect
A step toward biodegradable plastics
19 Nov 2016
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