Environment
Eco ministry's new draft limits Western Ghat's sensitive zone to 25%
10 Sep 2015
The revised draft limits the eco-sensitive zone in the Western Ghats to 56,825 sq km or 25 per cent of the total Western Ghats area
A fifth of earthquakes recorded in UK from 1970 to 2012 caused by human activities: Study
09 Sep 2015
Study finds dramatic increase in concurrent droughts, heat waves
09 Sep 2015
Droughts and heat waves are happening simultaneously with much greater frequency than in the past, according to research by climate experts
Radioactive contaminants found in coal ash
07 Sep 2015
A new study has revealed the presence of radioactive contaminants in coal ash from all three major US coal-producing basins
Mass extinctions linked to creatures, not catastrophes
By By Jagdeep Worah | 05 Sep 2015
Seabirds dying because of plastic waste
02 Sep 2015
What’s in a name? The threat remains the same
By By Jagdeep Worah | 01 Sep 2015
Ohioans are irate at President Obama for changing the name of the highest peak in the US from Mt McKinley to Denali – but the real issue is the alarming rate of glacier melt in the Arctic, reports Jagdeep Worah
Humans may be harmed by endocrine disrupting chemicals released during natural gas mining
31 Aug 2015
Grow more plants, save on air conditioning: NASA
29 Aug 2015
WWF, others sue UK authorities over environment
28 Aug 2015
US Environmental organisations file legal notice with the EPA over dumping of drilling and fracking waste
27 Aug 2015
NASA sees sea levels rising by several feet in future
27 Aug 2015
A new visualisation based on 23 years of sea level data reveals changes are anything but uniform around the globe
Without humans, the whole world could look like Serengeti
25 Aug 2015
In a world without humans, most of northern Europe would probably now be home to not only wolves, Eurasian elk (moose) and bears, but also animals such as elephants and rhinoceroses, says a new study from Denmark
Scores of wildfires ravage US Pacific Northwest
24 Aug 2015
Europe hit by one of the worst droughts since 2003
24 Aug 2015
Much of the European continent has been affected by severe drought in June and July 2015, one of the worst since the drought and heat wave of summer of 2003
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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