Environment/Science

Ban welcomes proposal for first binding limits on airlines' carbon emissions

New York, Feb 10 (Just Earth News/IBNS) Welcoming a proposal by the United Nation's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on the first binding limits on carbon dioxide emissions from the aviation industry, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Wednesday for further strengthening of emissions standards as quickly as possible. more

CSE slams the statement of Jaguar and Land Rover Chief

New Delhi Feb 8 (JEN): Centre for Science and Environment on Monday condemned the misleading remark of the Jaguar and Land Rover Chief Ralph Ralf Speth in claiming that their cars act like a ...

Pluto’s mysterious, floating hills

Los Angeles, Feb 5 (IBNS) The nitrogen ice glaciers on Pluto appear to carry an intriguing cargo: numerous, isolated hills that may be fragments of water ice from Pluto’s surrounding uplan ...

Flower show at Delhi's Rashtrapati Bhavan to begin on Feb 11

New Delhi, Feb 5 (JEN) The nearly month-long annual flower show, Udayanotsav, will be begin at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Feb 11, where the tulips and primulas are expected to be the star att ...

NASA Space launch system’s first flight to send small sci-tech satellites into space

New York, Feb 3 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The first flight of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 CubeSats to test innovative ideas along with an uncrewed Orion ...

Solar thermal power and applications are being ignored in today’s world of cheap photovoltaics: CSE

New Delhi, Feb 4 (JEN): Solar thermal has many applications where the heat of the sun is directly used for many industrial, residential and commercial purposes – but it has not yet found m ...

Govt to build Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory to study calamities

Karad/Maharashtra, Feb 2 (JEN) Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan led the Bhoomi-Pujan (an initiation ritual done before construction) ceremony for construction of the Boreh ...

Todd May named Marshall Space Flight Center Director

California, Feb 2 (IBNS) NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Todd May director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. May was appointed Marshall deput ...

Ban urges world to support Ethiopia's efforts to battle worst drought in 30 years

New York, Feb 1 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The international community must stand with the people of Ethiopia in their time of need, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, ...

Javadekar emphasises on spread of awareness on World Wetlands Day

New Delhi, Feb 1 (JEN): In his message for World Wetlands Day, which is observed on Feb 2, Prakash Javadekar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change ...