Environment
Nuclear energy too expensive, too slow to battle climate change: report
24 Sep 2019
Renewables continue to outpace nuclear power in virtually all categories with wind power output growing by 29 per cent in 2018 and solar by 13 per cent against a nuclear power output growth of 2.4 per cent, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2019
Floods are impacted by a changing climate
30 Aug 2019
A large international research project led by the Vienna University of Technology has demonstrated, for the first time on such a scale, that climate change is altering the magnitude of flood events
Making microbes that transform greenhouse gases
14 Aug 2019
Pokemon-like card game can help teach ecology
18 Jul 2019
NGT gives polluting industries 3 months to comply with regulations
17 Jul 2019
While regulation of polluting industries has been on a slow lane, matters came to the fore after a joint investigation by central and Uttar Pradesh pollution control boards commissioned by the NGT found industrial units spewing pesticides, chlorinated solvents, petroleum chemicals, mercury PCBs, dioxins and other persisting organic pollutants all around