Environment
California turns to Australia for strategies to counter record drought
27 May 2015
Facing the longest and sharpest drought on record, Californian authorities are increasingly looking for solutions from Australia, the world's driest inhabited continent
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
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