Environment
Earth already in red this year in natural resources budget
09 Aug 2016
Earth overshoot day, earlier called Ecological Debt Day, is the date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth's capacity to regenerate those resources in that year
Earth already in red this year in natural resources budget
08 Aug 2016
The world reached "Earth overshoot day" today, the point in the year when humans have exhausted annual supplies such as land, trees and fish, and outstripped Earth's capacity to absorb greenhouse gases
Buried oxygen rose to the occasion as Earth’s early atmosphere formed
06 Aug 2016
This is the first time anyone has shown that the relative amount of oxygen deep in the Earth influences the minerals that rocks are made of and how it changes their densities
Teasing out the microbiome of the Kansas prairie
30 Jul 2016
A giant quake may lurk under Bangladesh and beyond
19 Jul 2016
Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists say they have new evidence of increasing strain beneath Bangladesh, where two tectonic plates underlie the world’s largest river delta
NGT orders diesel vehicles 10 years and older out of New Delhi's roads
18 Jul 2016
The National Green Tribunal, India's apex environmental court, has ordered authorities in the national capital Delhi to remove all diesel vehicles that are 10 years and older out of the city's streets
Biodiversity falls below ‘safe levels’ globally
18 Jul 2016
Facebook to pilot test offline videos from 11 July
08 Jul 2016
In an attempt to beat the problems associated with poor or expensive mobile internet access, Facebook will start testing a new video download feature in India