The use of pesticides on cotton peaked in the 1990s when cotton accounted for about 20% of all insecticides used in agriculture. (Insecticides are a subset of pesticides, which include herbicides, ....

Water scarcity impacts at least 2.7 billion people around the world, reveals a new study report published in the online journal PloS ONE.....

Each year, mining companies dump more than 180 million tonnes of hazardous mine waste into rivers, lakes, and oceans worldwide, threatening vital bodies of water with toxic heavy metals and other c....

And there are thousands of wells getting drilled in North America each year; more than 80% of them are now horizontal, and most of those require fracking. The dollar value of managing that water mu....

Shortages in resources such as power, fuel and water will spur research and innovation that will ultimately end our addiction to fossil energy. Only sustainable solutions can fix these global chall....

India's wheat sowing has been shown in 76.67 lakh hectare against 85.92 lakh hectare last year on this date, according to preliminary reports of the government.....