<p>Urban areas are currently responsible for ~70% of the global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and rapid ongoing global urbanization is increasing the number and size of cities. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/CO2-emissions-cities.pdf"
Released by the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on November 2 (see Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 14), these Hubble-captured snapshots hold up to the eye a mind-blowing,
AN EXTRA inch or kilogram is proving to be a real bottleneck for those us astronauts wanting to hitch a ride aboard Soyuz, the Russian spacecraft. They are either too short, too tall, too fat or
Stargazers feast their ey'es on what could be the event of the century star births as the Hubble photographs the phenomenon
Even as the recent photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope made news, radio observations made over the last three years by the NASA Deep Space Network anten- na at Goldstone,
J C WILSON of the University of Denver has found that the first and only commercially run supersonic airliner - the Concorde - emits loads of sulphur particles in the atmosphere. He says that
Radio programmes broadcasted in deep space may liven up space flying
The recent Atlantis Mir docking in space, only the 2nd of its kind, is the first tentative step towards Mars
Atlantis and Mir did an intimately interlocked fandango for 5 days, and its crew of 6 Americans and 4 Russians sprinted through an impeccably and precisely scheduled series of 28 experiments, 15 of
THOMAS Crapper, the inventor of the commode, had never anticipated the headache involved in the act of hitting the pot in space. There has been a steady and gainless drain of US $3 million on R&D on
CONVERTING GARBAGE: Deliverance from stinking garbage dumps in Calcutta has finally become a possibility, thanks to a planned Rs 4.5 crore project for bio-converting solid waste into fertilizers. To
