Month: June 2016

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How the Mafia is Causing Cancer

Ian Birrell 30/06/2016

When doctors in rural Italy began to see a...

Two tiny fossil wings preserved complete with feathers in the amber deposits of northeast Myanmar. Credit: Royal Saskatchewan Museum/RC McKellar, Author provided

Tiny Wings Trapped in Amber 99 Million Years Ago Reveal New Secrets of Earliest Birds

Michael Benton 29/06/2016

Birds today are one of the most successful groups...

A policeman, wearing a mask to protect from severe pollution, secures the area near the Great Hall of the People before the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing

G20 Economies Under Pressure to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Barbara Lewis 29/06/2016

Officials from the UN and the EU, plus 200...

A mosquito. Credit: bsgphotos/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Zika Virus’s Effects Getting Clearer, But Not on Why it’s Not Struck in India Yet

Raghavi Rao Kodati 29/06/2016

As the 2016 Olympic games are a little more...

Prakash Javadekar addressing a seminar on 41st anniversary of the Emergency

Is India’s Environmental Governance Going Through Its Biggest Crisis Ever?

Debadityo Sinha 29/06/2016

The reduction of regulations to a mere formality has...

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ISRO Clears PSLV to Launch Sats Into Multiple Orbits

Vasudevan Mukunth 29/06/2016

With this capability, ISRO now stands to be able...

A Bombay night-frog. Credit: Rohini/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

Why the Discovery of a New Mating Position Among Bombay Night-frogs is Good News

Binit Priyaranjan 28/06/2016

Studying the behaviour of these frogs provides invaluable information...