This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country.
The innocuous-looking Brinjal is now causing great outrage as its genetically modified variant waiting for clearance, says Kavitha Srinivasa What if a consumer doesn
In India, of the 49 million hectares (mha) of acid soil, 25 mha has pH below 5.5. Considerable genetic variability for aluminium (Al) tolerance exists in pea seedlings at intraspecific level, which has allowed the selection of tolerant and productive genotypes for acidic soil.
It pays a surprise visit to a couple of places near Aranthangi DISCUSSION: R. Malathi, District Munsif and Chairperson, Taluk Legal Services Committee, interacting with workers.
By Suzanne Goldenberg Some of the mightiest rivers on the planet, including the Ganga, the Niger, and the Yellow river in China, are drying up because of climate change, a study of global waterways has warned.
Hyderabad, April 24: Anil Kumar, 16, a heart patient from a poor family in Warangal, is yet to get an Arogyasri card which will enable him to get free treatment from a referral hospital in the city.
Production of organic rice is a necessity of the present era. Hence, development of high-yielding rice varieties, suitable for a salinity stress area which is naturally an organic production system like the
Heavy toll of lives among the tribal people has been reported in northern Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh. From 2003 till date, every year between June and August, mysterious viral deaths have been occurring in the tribal areas.
The role of women in agriculture has changed dramatically in developed and developing countries. India
In Kolkata, pavement hawking is an everyday phenomenon and hawkers represent one of the largest, more organised and more militant sectors in the informal economy. This note documents the hawkers
To eliminate iodine deficiency, India needs to adopt an alternative approach and use a different set of agents to achieve universal salt iodisation.
Barack Obama
Vaporising household waste to create clean energy could solve two of humanity's biggest environmental problems at once. But is "gasification" as green as it sounds?
Plans to cool the planet by creating a sunshade could cut the amount of electricity generated by solar power.
Atmospheric particles containing lead might have offset the Earth's warming in the 20th century.
When the Maoists spread terror on election day, they disempower the very people they claim to fight for. (Editorial)
A new process converts carbon dioxide into methanol, without the need for extreme temperatures and pressures.
Indigenous peoples from as far apart as Lapland and Micronesia are meeting in Alaska to forge a common position on climate change.
The southern ozone hole has changed weather patterns around Antarctica and cooled the air above the east part of the continent, according to new research.
The world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, China and the US, are showing positive signs of greening.
