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Views like this -- of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu, with the Remarkables mountain range in the background -- are one of the reasons tourists flock to New Zealand. But strong economic growth is placing strains on the environment, the OECD is warning

New Zealand's 'green' image under threat: OECD

The report also noted that N.Zealand had one of the worst rates of species extinction in the world.

21 March 2017 10:37 AM IST

Australias Great Barrier Reef, which scientists say may never recover from warming-driven coral bleaching last year

'Dead zones' a threat to coral reefs

Researchers became interested in role of dead zones after seeing a widespread coral reef die-off on the Caribbean coast...

21 March 2017 8:41 AM IST

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre commissions world's third largest wind...

Aerospace vehicles fly much faster and often cross the speed of sound.

21 March 2017 6:40 AM IST

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking will travel to space

The cosmologist and physicist will leave the Earth on board Richard Branson's spaceship, he has said.

21 March 2017 1:34 AM IST

The methane ice-rich surface on Pluto may be sublimating away into the atmosphere, exposing a layer of water-ice underneath (Photo: NASA)

Pluto should regain its planet status, say experts

The definition approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2006, demoted Pluto to 'non-planet'

20 March 2017 2:30 PM IST

The Dragon cargo capsule, seen attached to a Falcon 9 rocket, both made by SpaceX, at Cape Canaveral in Florida

SpaceX cargo ship returns to Earth

The capsule undertook a more than six-hour journey back to Earth

20 March 2017 7:43 AM IST

No one has been able to actually investigate whether differences existed between humans and chimpanzees in how the foot works during walking on two legs. (Photo: Pixabay)

Human skull evolved with two-legged walk: study

The evolution of walking on two legs in fossil humans can be detected by checking the foramen magnum

19 March 2017 2:59 PM IST

If Pluto had an ocean that was frozen or in the process of freezing, extensional tectonics on the surface would result.

Restoring Pluto's planetary identity in crisis

Scientist says: Regardless of what one prestigious scientific organization says to the contrary, Pluto is a planet.

19 March 2017 9:29 AM IST

Locked up in ice capping a Bolivian mountain lie 18,000 years of climate history, but this precious archive of environmental change since the last Ice Age is melting fast.

Preserving the memory of glaciers

Glacier ice contains traces of gas, chemicals and dust.

19 March 2017 9:19 AM IST

SpacePharma says its miniature lab is a new way for researchers to work in microgravity for extended periods.

Miniature lab begins science experiments in outer space

The technology was launched into space last month by SpacePharma, a Swiss-Israeli company.

19 March 2017 9:16 AM IST

The information will be transmitted by the satellite twice a day, which will help Africa towards disaster prevention.

School girls plan Africa's first private space satellite launch

The data will be used to predict Africa's future problems.

18 March 2017 11:01 AM IST

NOAA climate scientist Ahira Sanchez-Lugo called it clear evidence of climate change.

No El Nino? No problem. Earth sizzles to near record heat

It was also the second hottest winter in the northern hemisphere on record.

18 March 2017 10:44 AM IST