We're a Long Way From Earthquake Predictions

For some seismologists, the deadly tremor that hit Nepal on Saturday came as little surprise. "It's been well known in the seismological world that the Himalayan system is ...

7 Things We’ve Learned About Earth Since The Last Earth Day

A whole lot has changed since the first Earth Day in 1970.

Back then, the most urgent environmental problems facing the United States were air and water pollution. ...

Polio Vaccination With Micro-Needle Patches Receives Funding For Patch Development, Clinical Trial

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of $2.5 million to advance the development of dissolvable microneedle patches for polio immunisation. The patche...

Technology The 'Golden Key' For Planetary Sustainability: India At UN

As the world observed Earth Day, India said technology held the “golden key” to planetary sustainability and concerns over intellectual property rights should n...

Do We Need a Global Tax On Wealth?

Taxes have always been politicized. In modern times, no election passes without each campaign's position on taxes being thoroughly scrutinized. And with economic inequality...

Nikhil Seth: A New Vision For Sustainable Development

In his more than two decades with the United Nations, Nikhil Seth has played a pivotal role in the development of first the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 and now the...

Let’s Talk Health: ‘Cancer: Stories of Survivorship’

CNN-IBN, India’s most awarded English news channel, in collaboration with the Apollo Hospitals presents ‘Let’s Talk Health’ – a unique show th...

Surgical Anesthesia May Act As Greenhouse Gases, Contributing To Global Warming

Releases of anesthetic gases are beginning to accumulate in the earth’s atmosphere in increasing amounts, contributing on a small scale to climate change. According t...

China?s Pollution Assault Boosting Solar, Electric Vehicles

Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL) has won the ‘Innovation for India Awards 2014’, under Business Category, for developing tamper evident and defraud electri...