Environment

Rainfall trends in arid regions buck commonly held climate change theories

16 Oct 2017

Warming seas could lead to 70% increase in hurricane-related financial loss

16 Oct 2017

If oceans warm at a rate predicted by a UN-sponsored group that assesses climate change research, expected financial losses caused by hurricanes could increase to $12 billion by 2100

Oxford to introduce world’s first zero emission zone

14 Oct 2017

Most Americans want the government to combat climate change, some willing to pay a high amount

14 Oct 2017

New report gives the lay of the land on grazing livestock's climate impact

14 Oct 2017

Scientists find gold in Swiss sewage system

13 Oct 2017

Scientists find gold in Swiss sewage system

13 Oct 2017

Pest resistance to biotech crops surging

11 Oct 2017

Researchers analyzed published data for 36 cases representing responses of 15 pest species in 10 countries on every continent except Antarctica. They discovered resistance that substantially reduced the efficacy of the Bt crops in the field in 16 cases as of 2016

IMD forecasts heavy rains in North East and Konkan till 13 October

10 Oct 2017

Carbon feedback from forest soils will accelerate global warming, 26-year study projects

09 Oct 2017

Breakthrough in direct activation of CO2 and CH4 into liquid fuels, chemicals

09 Oct 2017

Giant Antarctic ice split unveils ecosystem hidden for millennia

07 Oct 2017

Another bump for Trump: court rejects bid to delay methane emission cuts

05 Oct 2017

Scientists find new source of radioactivity from Fukushima disaster

04 Oct 2017

Researchers hypothesise that high levels of radioactive cesium-137 released in 2011 were transported along the coast by ocean currents. Days and weeks after the accident, waves and tides brought the cesium onto the coast, where it became "stuck" to the surfaces of sand grains

Global methane emissions from agriculture larger than reported, according to new estimates

30 Sep 2017

2100: Some of us now living may witness the next mass extinction

23 Sep 2017

Daniel Rothman, professor of geophysics at MIT and the co-director of MIT's Lorenz Center, feels a sixth mass extinction will occur when a critical amount of carbon - which he analysed as 310 giga tonnes - is likely added to the oceans by the year 2100

Air pollution may have damaging effects on the kidneys

22 Sep 2017

Over 250 dead as 7.1 magnitude quake flattens Mexico City

20 Sep 2017

The powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.1 that struck central Mexico on Tuesday afternoon flattened at least 44 buildings in the heavily populated capital, burying the victims under the ruins and the rubble