Environment
Maharashtra village records 46.5°C as heat wave sweeps India
30 Mar 2017
The weather office said it recorded 43 degree Celsius on Monday, but on Tuesday, the temperature was not recorded because it happened to be a holiday
California defies Trump; upholds own strict auto emissions standards
25 Mar 2017
In defiance of the Trump administration, California’s environmental regulator will continue to maintain the state's cleaner-car standards till 2025 and follow it up with formal efforts to tighten rules for the nest five years
Adopting Moore's law for carbon emissions would beat global warming
24 Mar 2017
A simple rule of thumb or "carbon law" of halving emissions every decade, based on Moore's Law in the computer industry, could catalyse disruptive innovation that could reduce fossil-fuel consumption
'Tree-on-a-chip' passively pumps water for days
22 Mar 2017
Growing global temperatures could be contributing to rising diabetic numbers
21 Mar 2017
1°C rise in environmental temperature could account for more than 100,000 new diabetes cases per year in the USA alone