Environment
Bigger storms ahead
15 Jul 2013
With global warming, a study finds, the coming century may whip up stronger and more frequent storms and tropical cyclones as the planet warms
Greenhouse gases affecting ocean’s foodchain
08 Jul 2013
Kaziranga animals suffer in massive Assam floods
08 Jul 2013
Greenhouse gas likely altering ocean foodchain
03 Jul 2013
Outlook grim for mammals, birds as human population grows
29 Jun 2013
The ongoing global growth in the human population will inevitably crowd out mammals and birds and has the potential to threaten hundreds of species with extinction within 40 years, new research shows
Renewables share in energy mix to exceed gas, nuclear by 2016: IEA
28 Jun 2013
As their costs continue to fall, renewable power sources are increasingly standing on their own merits versus new fossil-fuel generation, IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven said in a statement
Getting the carbon out of power plant emissions
26 Jun 2013
Nuclear waste leak suspected from double-walled tank at US plant
22 Jun 2013
An underground tank holding some of the worst radioactive waste at the most contaminated nuclear site in the US is suspected to be leaking into the soil.
Singapore may sow rain clouds as smog fails to abate
21 Jun 2013
For a week now, the island state of Singapore has been blanketed in the worst smog in a decade as summer fires continue to burn in neighbouring Indonesia
Alternative-fuel cars are no carbon cure-all
18 Jun 2013
Improved technology predicts climate change impact on ice-sheet mass
17 Jun 2013
Losses in ice sheet mass, which show a complex response to climate change, are now becoming apparent through data from improved computer models