The Moon has a few things in common with Earth. No, we’re not talking about craters or imperfections, but trash. Building a home for humans on the Moon is a dream that many scientists are working to m...
Nilgiris researcher Dr Ashokkumar Veeramuthu features in Stanford–Elsevier scientist rankings for four consecutive years. (Photo: saveetha.com) Dr Ashokkumar Veeramuthu, who studied in government scho...
Bittu Tabahi’s river clean up (Instagram) For eight months, Surendra Singh Choudhary aka Bittu Tabahi worked hard and non-stop to give a polluted river in Madhya Pradesh a new life. The young en...
Image Courtesy: Instagram/@kalambemalhar What happens to a Ganesha idol after it is immersed during Ganpati visarjan? In Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, some of the idols are getting a second use as study tab...
Australia began experimenting with railway sleepers made from recycled plastic in 2015, turning material that might otherwise have gone to landfill into a component designed to sit beneath railway tra...
For decades, millions of tons of uranium mill tailings sat beside the Colorado River near Moab, Utah, leaving behind a major environmental cleanup challenge in a landscape known for its red rock scene...
NEW DELHI: In a first for the road sector, govt has used waste plastic as a wet mix with bitumen to lay a bituminous highway stretch, a move that is likely to reduce imports of the key construction ma...
An Italian town is replacing its existing primary school with a building designed to reuse the old structure’s demolition waste. The project in Castel Madama, called ‘New School: Innovation, Inclusion...
Every day, food that has reached the end of its useful life leaves kitchens, shops, factories and distribution centres across Sydney. Much of it could end up as waste with little further use. At Earth...
NEW DELHI: Shooting ace Manu Bhaker has urged her fellow Indian athletes to put the organisational issues surrounding the Asian Games behind them and focus on competition, saying the continental showp...