A double-whammy of El Niño and long-term climate change hit Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Drought, heat, wildfires,
The buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is expected to cause rising sea levels that will threaten U.S. coastal aeras and water supplies in this century, according to two major
Medicinal values of marine life make it vulnerable to overexploitation. But it is now possible to artificially produce such qualities
The Girijan Cooperative Society in Kerala is responsible for managing over 120 non-timber forest produce that includes a sizeable number of medicinal plants. However, present assessments show that
Shailja Chandra, secretary, department of Indian systems of medicine ISM and homeopathy, Union ministry of health and family welfare, talks to <font class='UCASE'>Down To Earth</font> on the possibility of cultivating medicinal plants
Will the Bush administration bring about radical changes in environmental and climate policies of the US?
While UK faces increased incidence of floods, the US water resources are threatened by global warming
An international scientific panel sent up another warning flare about global warming last week, predicting droughts and floods, violent storms and rising seas as a result of an atmosphere made hotter
The Masargod Munsiff Court has directed the Plantation Corporation of Kerala to refrain from spraying 'endosulfan' pesticide on its cashew plantations with immediate
expert : Temperatures in South Asia rising between 3 and 4 degrees over the next 50 years. Instances of malaria, especially in the less developed countries, trebling during the same period. That's
Reading chemical clues etched in coral up to 130,000 years old, geologists say it appears that El Nino and La Nina, the pulses of warm and cool Pacific waters that can lead to Indonesian droughts and
