Off Beat

Disposable diapers, or “nappies,” are swamping landfill sites in Britain. Local officials across Britain are offering incentives to parents who stop using these disposables. Including paying parents up to $140 (80 pounds) for swapping disposable…

Five years are gone, after it was warned that the famed ice fields on Tanzania ‘s Mount Kilimanjaro may melt. It is disappointing for the Ohio State University researchers to find now that their prediction is coming true.

The loss of the ice atop…

Children living in the South are up to three times more vulnerable to poor health than other U.S. children, a University of Florida study suggests. Researchers documented several poor health outcomes, which included low birth weight, teenage pregnancy…

It wonderfully and rightly can be claimed as an a€eenormous miniaturea€. Workers, in a cavernous building, are putting in 12-hour days to construct a scale model of a part of New Orleans at Lake Pontchartrain. It is built at one-fiftieth of it

We know the French aircraft carrier, Clemenceau, is decommissioned. It was on its way to Alang ship-breaking yard in the western Indian state of Gujarat. All got to know these from the media.

But, be it print, online or audio-visuals or audio – all…

Buying water worth $190,000! This is what the oil-and-gas town of 6,000, Ulysses is looking into in recent times. The vast underground pool that feeds faucets across the Great Plains, the Ogallala aquifer, is running low. This has forced farmers and…

Its hard time balancing the needs of both grazing cattle and wild animals in the Amboseli National Park in Kenya. It is becoming more and more complex, as elephants, buffaloes and other wild animals drink water on one side of a swamp. And on the other,.

To try to learn more about the southern San Andreas Fault including a segment that has not ruptured in more than three centuries, scientists plan to use $2 million in federal “seed money”. The fault slices 800-mile through California. One of the most…