The Voluntary Health Services hospital converted a patch of wasteland into an organic garden

A couple in Chennai has started a company to boost organic farming and teach you to grow your own veggies.

New and green practices together with a slew of tools are turning gardening into an effortless pastime for urbanites. By M.A. Siraj

Tanya Brar is on a mission to beautify Bengaluru’s balcony gardens and restore its former glory.

Terrace gardens benefit biodiversity, help in rainwater harvesting and reduce the heat island effect

Bring plants indoor to add colour to your home, says Teja Lele Desai

The Sasol facility places the country at a crossroads because its coal-based technology emits much more carbon dioxide emitted per tonne of product

When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on its behalf – by planting trees, for example, or generating renewable energy

With climate change initiatives and Smart City projects on the rise, environmental engineering is gaining ground as a promising option.

Due to climate change and rising global temperatures, the glaciers had been gradually thinning. When the glacier finally gave way, it sent a colossal amount of debris tumbling into the fjord, displacing enough material to fill around 10,000 Olympic-sized pools.

With climate education becoming more accessible, professionals from a diversity of fields are switching to sustainability-related careers

A monthly series by WWF-India that highlights niche and unconventional green careers through the stories of well-known personalities from the field of environment and conservation

Creative use of natural materials, recycled elements, salvaged items stand out in these eco-sensitive creations.

The author writes on unchecked, illegal realty growth along the city’s eco-sensitive zones and how the city’s ecology has been destroyed in the name of development

The comparatively petite flagship has a few charms hidden within

Until then, users have been advised to uninstall the beta version and use the version 2.24.24.4 which is working fine

Cationic molecule helps bleach cotton faster with less energy

Transparent film of nanocellulose in a glass matrix confers hardness and fracture toughness to plastic

How BioVectra became a world-scale pharmaceutical contractor on Prince Edward Island

This is a colour that truly looks of the forest and from the forest

Kiatnakin Bank was the country's tenth-largest commercial lender by assets in 2019. 

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Howard Green, who has died aged 91, was my first editor, a journalist of the old school who worked his way up from junior reporter at 15 to the board of Thomson Regional Newspapers (TRN) when it was a force in the British regional press.

In the mid-1960s he was a key player in the plans of his Canadian proprietor, Lord (Roy) Thomson of Fleet, to ring London with new evening papers, located on the emerging motorway network and printed on state-of-the-art web offset presses. With well-run local papers still profitable, the big idea was eventually to print and distribute Fleet Street newspapers away from the clutches of its famously disruptive unions.