Environment
HC lifts stay on sand mining in Maharashtra
27 Oct 2010
Posco panel majority insists chair is wrong
20 Oct 2010
MoEF nod for neutrino excavation in TN forest area
19 Oct 2010
The project, being jointly implemented by the atomic energy department and the TIFR, involves digging a 2-km deep hole through solid igneous rock to study sub-atomic particles. The environment ministry has cleared it subject to caveats.
Green panel on Posco waffles over verdict
18 Oct 2010
Resources of two worlds needed to cope with consumption
15 Oct 2010
A study backed by the world’s leading environmental organisations concludes that it will need ‘two earths’ by 2030 to sustain the current pace of human consumption
Google-led investors in $5-bn offshore energy project
13 Oct 2010
Google, Marubeni and New York investment firm Good Energies have teamed up to finance the gigantic Atlantic Wind Connection project to accelerate offshore wind development to power 1.9 million homes in the US
Human activities overload ecosystems with nitrogen
09 Oct 2010
The ecological damage is serious, but could be reduced by wider use of more sustainable, time-honoured practices
Rare melt key to 'Ring of Fire'
07 Oct 2010
The eruptions of volcanoes in the Ring of Fire are extremely violent because the molten rock contains a high proportion of water which, as superheated gas, provides the power for the explosive eruptions