In Kerala, farmers fight to preserve world’s only variety of salt-resistant rice – and the ecosystem

Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani search for clouds along the west coast, they meet farmers who are attempting to return to a traditional system of alternating paddy and s...

Sustainable energy through biomass

Biomass fuels come from things that once lived, such as wood products, dried vegetation, crop residues, aquatic plants and even garbage India’s energy demand is on th...

CO2 emissions in ASEAN from transport sector will double by 2050, warns energy agency

If the International Energy Agency (IEA) is to be believed, the amount of carbon emissions from transport in ASEAN nations will double by 2050. At the same time, carbon emi...

Punjab farmers try religious route to shun pesticides

Ask religious institutions to grow organic crops and accept organic crops as donation for langars In Pandori Ragsangh village in Amritsar, farmer leader Gurlal Singh takes ...

America Ferrera is all about big-screen girl power

Count on America Ferrera, 30, to play empowered women.

“I love that my character in How to Train Your Dragon 2 (out June 13) is a born adventurer and leader.&...

Sea Pollution Rate Alarming; Let’s Check It

Every year June 8 is observed as the World Ocean Day to underscore a need to protect the great body of salt water, which covers 70.78 per cent of the earth’s surface....

Stars Call To End Animal Experiment Secrecy

The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) has welcomed support from Ricky Gervais and Paul O’Grady, who have joined the NAVS campaign to end secrecy in animal expe...

Naxal-hit Areas Of Chhattisgarh See Sharp Decline In Population

Industrialisation and forced sterilization programmes may be some reasons for the trend Growth of population in Chhattisgarh’s Naxalite-hit areas like Bijapur and Dan...

Maharashtra's insurance scheme for orchard owners draws angry protests

Maharashtra government appears to have learnt no lesson at all from the hailstorms that lashed the entire state in March this year, and yet again lashed several districts i...