Environment
India plans 1,300 MW of solar power by 2013
26 Jul 2010
India hopes to join the league of leaders in solar power production like Germany, Spain and Japan
US will oppose Sino-Pak nuclear deal
23 Jul 2010
Breaking weeks of enigmatic silence the United States has finally said it will vote against an exemption for China to sell two civil nuclear reactors to Pakistan at the Nuclear Suppliers Group meeting.
BP caps Gulf of Mexico oil spill
16 Jul 2010
Footloose glaciers crack up
By By Robert Monroe | 15 Jul 2010
Chlorine gas leak affects scores in Mumbai
14 Jul 2010
Ethanol-fuelled racecars outrun conventional speedsters
10 Jul 2010
Argonne engineers found that ethanol-fueled engines outperforms traditional racecar engines with environmentally-unfriendly leaded fuel
Solar powered plane completes night long flight over Switzerland
10 Jul 2010
The Solar Impulse cruised at a height of 28,000 feet and a top speed of 78 mph, in a night long flight, in what, according to project coordinators was the longest test flight of a piloted, solar-powered aircraft
Oil spills raise arsenic levels in oceans: new research
02 Jul 2010
Oil spills can increase levels of toxic arsenic in the ocean and become more concentrated and poisonous the further it moves up the food chain
Climate change scientists turn up the heat in Alaska
28 Jun 2010
Scientists are planning a large-scale, long-term eco-system experiment to test the effects of global warming on the icy layers of arctic permafrost which cover a large land area around the world.