Beano For Bovines: Here's How Researchers Are Cutting Methane Emissions From Cows

Just as people plagued by flatulence have turned to diets and supplements for relief, scientists are seeking a cure for belching — and sometimes farting — cows....

Outsmarting Polio

While a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the globe has reduced incidence of polio by 99 percent, wiping out the disease in the last handful of countries has prov...

Self-Assembling Nanoparticles Offer Super-Efficient, Portable Water Desalination

Solar desalination is a tantalizing cure-all to Earth's fresh-water woes. After all, this is where fresh water comes from naturally as part of the planet's water cycle&mdas...

Brutal Heat Wave In India Puts 330 Million To Risk

India is in the grips of a monstrous pre-monsoon heat wave that has killed more than 160 people in recent weeks. The majority of the deaths have been in the southern states...

Bill Gates Predicts Eradication Of Polio In Pakistan By 2017

Bill Gates said Wednesday that "with any luck" polio will be eradicated by 2017 in the last two countries where it remains active, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Climate Change Not About Temperature, It's About Dying, Starving, Displaced People

Among the range of physical health impacts, Americans can look forward to a future of more food and water contamination, increased asthma rates, and tenfold jumps in death ...

Randeep Hooda Appointed As First Ever Brand Ambassador For Mumbai Fire Brigade.

Randeep, who was honoured to wear the uniform, became the first ever face of the Fire Department in 127 years. For the first time in 127 years, the Mumbai Fire Brigade deci...

Warangal: Farmer Grows Rice With Waste Water From House

While insufficient rainfall and the summer heat are taking their toll in the district, there is one farmer who is standing apart from the rest by cultivating his 20-acre fi...

3 Striking Charts Show How Vaccines Have Impacted 20th Century Diseases

Despite the few very loud voices still claiming vaccines are dangerous (and getting a lot of attention in the process), there is overwhelming evidence that they make the wo...