Environmentalists in India are criticizing government moves to continue to approve major industrial projects, and to relax the nation’s environmental assessment rules, even as the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated public oversight and canceled potential field reviews. “They are carrying on as if there is no health emergency, hosting meetings and taking decisions including on big ticket projects,” said Kanchi Kohli, an environmental governance expert with … Continue reading India’s push to relax environmental assessment rules amid pandemic draws criticism

Not all of the hundreds of skeletons at the Himalayan site are from the same place or period High in the Himalayas, the bones of several hundred mysterious people lie scattered around a small lake, earning it the nickname Skeleton Lake. Some of those people originated in the vicinity of Greece and Crete around 220 years ago, a new analysis of DNA and radiocarbon-dated bones … Continue reading India’s Skeleton Lake contains the bones of mysterious European migrants

These electrochemical cells might also one day make deep-space missions easier BY MARIA TEMMING 6:00AM, OCTOBER 30, 2018 New chemical-recycling devices might help combat climate change by making good use of heat-trapping gas produced by burning fossil fuels. These electrochemical cells convert carbon monoxide into useful compounds much more efficiently than their predecessors, researchers report online October 25 in Joule. If combined with existing technology that harvests … Continue reading New devices could help turn atmospheric CO2 into useful supplies