Environment
How clouds get their brightness
18 Jul 2015
Typhoon Chan-hom makes landfall in eastern China
11 Jul 2015
Single-catalyst water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen 24/7
06 Jul 2015
Stanford University scientists have invented a low-cost water splitter that uses a single catalyst to produce both hydrogen and oxygen gas 24 hours a day, seven days a week
UK receives record energy in the UK on Thursday
04 Jul 2015
BP agrees to record $18.7 billion settlement over Gulf of Mexico oil spill
03 Jul 2015
The $18.7 bn deal would meet damage claims of the federal government, the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, as also over 400 local government entities along the coast
Renewable sources to supply over half of Europe’s electricity by 2030
27 Jun 2015
Europe is likely to get over half of its electricity from renewable sources by the end of the next decade if EU countries met their climate pledges
Road traffic noise linked to deaths and strokes
24 Jun 2015
Climate change threatens to undermine last 50 year of health gains
24 Jun 2015
The potentially catastrophic risk to human health posed by climate change has been severely underestimated, says a commission on climate change and health
Climate change threatens to undermine last 50 year of health gains
24 Jun 2015
The potentially catastrophic risk to human health posed by climate change has been severely underestimated, says a commission on climate change and health
US EPA proposes new emissions norms for commercial vehicles
20 Jun 2015
The EPA has proposed increasing fuel-economy standards for new medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in a move that would cut US oil consumption by 1.8 billion barrels
World entering 6th mass extinction
By By Rob Jordan, Stanford Woods Institute for the En | 20 Jun 2015
We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction, warn researchers and call for urgent action to conserve threatened species, populations and habitats, but warn that the window of opportunity is rapidly closing
Mumbai braces for more rains while limping to normalcy
20 Jun 2015
Mumbai, which was paralysed on Friday following torrential rains since Thursday night, limped back to normalcy on Saturday, with train services restored on all three suburban lines
India faces world's worst groundwater depletion: NASA
19 Jun 2015
The stress on groundwater resources is more apparent in India than in any other part of the world, data received from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites show
India faces world's worst groundwater depletion: NASA
19 Jun 2015
The stress on groundwater resources is more apparent in India than in any other part of the world, data received from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites show