Environment
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
Mumbai lost in the rains, in just a day
19 Jun 2015
Heavy rains halted trains, the lifeline of the city, in their tracks, while waterlogged roads affected movement to even closeby locations
Third of big groundwater basins in distress
18 Jun 2015
About one-third of Earth's largest groundwater basins are being rapidly depleted by human consumption, despite having little accurate data about how much water remains in them
Fluid injection's role in man-made earthquakes revealed
15 Jun 2015
For the first time, researchers in the United States and France have observed how fluid injection sets off microearthquakes on a sizable, subterranean fault
Nepal quakes push a million below poverty line
15 Jun 2015
Losses to Nepal's economy, including tourism, from its worst disaster on record stand at nearly $7 billion
World's first tidal energy project at Swansea Bay gets planning clearance
13 Jun 2015
The development involves building of a six-mile horseshoe-shaped seawall with turbines for harnessing the power of the tides
EPA finds no evidence of pollution from fracking
05 Jun 2015
Monsoon hits Kerala, advances further north
05 Jun 2015
Australian weather bureau sees hope for Indian monsoon from MJO wave
02 Jun 2015
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has found signs to support the view that the monsoon may not be that bad
Heat, dust raise toxin levels in Delhi air
01 Jun 2015
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