Tinkering with the design of nature and adding some clever accessories inside tiny little organisms might not be the brightest idea if you watched those countless Hollywood flicks where genetic engineering (eccentric mad-scientist styled stuff) goes horribly wrong.
But then this is real life and with the very real and growing demand for cleaner and more [...]

Coral reefs are some of the most battered life forms due to global warming. Coral bleaching and collapse of entire reef ecosystems are occurrences largely blamed on imbalances in the equilibrium of marine environments such as changes in ocean temperature, pollution, overfishing, unsustainable fishing practices, sedimentation, acidification, and oxidative stress. Today, estimates peg the destruction [...]

 
 
China’s breakneck economic growth over the past two decades was bound to take a take a toll on China’s environment, especially in its water quality which has suffered severely in the last few years. The most notable victim has been China’s moist scenic water body (Ofcourse, until some time back) – the 900-square-mile Taihu Lake, [...]