Environment
Atmospheric release of BPA worsening global water quality
23 May 2015
Harmful concentrations of hormone-disrupting Bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical used in plastic food storage and beverage containers, is contaminating and worsening water quality around the world
GE launches waste-to-energy project with Aseagas
22 May 2015
Human security at risk as depletion of soil accelerates, scientists warn
20 May 2015
Soil erosion, combined with the effects of climate change, will present a huge risk to global food security over the next century
Fresh quakes in Nepal shake Bihar, Sikkim, UP, W Bengal; 10 feared dead
16 May 2015
Yet another earthquake on Saturday, measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale, hit Nepal and the neighbouring region of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Climate is starting to change faster
16 May 2015
The speed with which temperatures change will continue to increase over the next several decades, intensifying the impacts of climate change
Link between vitamin E and air pollution
15 May 2015
Making sustainable clothing more fashionable
13 May 2015
Nepal jolted again with 7.3-magnitude quake; 42 dead, over 1,000 injured
12 May 2015
Rescue helicopters have been sent to districts northeast of Kathmandu, where landslides and buildings collapsed in the quake may have left people buried
National Green Tribunal orders Delhi residents to pay for Yamuna cleanup
09 May 2015
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) yesterday imposed an 'environmental compensation' on all households in Delhi, which generated sewage, irrespective of whether they were connected to a sewer or not
India drift
By By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office | 07 May 2015
Himalayan rocks shed light on India’s drift speed mystery
07 May 2015
In the history of continental drift, India has been a mysterious record-holder.. Now MIT researchers explain mystery of India’s rapid move toward Eurasia 80 million years ago.
New technique shows shale-drilling chemicals in drinking-water taps near leak
07 May 2015
Substances commonly used for drilling or extracting Marcellus shale gas travelled from shale gas wells more than two kilometers in the sub-surface to drinking water wells
Stanford researcher imagines a world without large, plant-eating animals
06 May 2015
If the wold's last plant eating animals were to become extinct, scientists warn, the result would be more frequent and intense wildfires due to a build-up of flammable plant matter no longer being eaten by the missing herbivores, more habitat coverage for disease-carrying rodents, among others