The Energy And Resources Institute (Teri)

DESCRIPTIONCan you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels we...

DESCRIPTION Gadgets: those sleek, shiny, snazzy companions you and I love! By making numerous tasks easier, keeping in touch with others and the wo...

DESCRIPTION Food is our basic necessity. But have you ever wondered where it comes from? Why different foods taste different? Besides answering the...

DESCRIPTIONElectricity lights up our homes and offices, and powers appliances like TVs, air-conditioners, and computers. But do you know how electr...

DESCRIPTIONLearn about the strangest and oddest natural animal homes on earth—walnut-sized hummingbird nests, underground badger setts with interli...

DESCRIPTIONThe human body is very similar to a machine, with separate mechanisms that work together to keep us healthy. In this book, learn about t...

DESCRIPTIONIt's not just plants that use the sun's energy to make their food. So can we. And we can do much, much more. From Roman baths to modern-...

DESCRIPTION F-e-v-e-r. Five feared letters. Sometimes you shiver, though it is hot. At times, the fever brings with it a sore throat and a runny no...

DESCRIPTION Meet Green Genius, a seven-year-old boy, who loves to keep his home clean and green. His careless uncle Gopu Chacha, however, lives on ...

DESCRIPTIONIt's time to get squeaky clean. Scientists have been exploring, designing and discovering spanking new technologies that would leave our...

DESCRIPTIONNo species has changed the environment of the earth as much, and as fast, as human beings. As more and more life forms become endangered...

DESCRIPTION Watch out! There are strange creatures around. Did you know that there is a sea creature that looks like a Portuguese battleship? Can y...

DESCRIPTION Meet Green Genius, a seven-year-old boy, who loves to keep his school clean and green. His cousin Popu has recently joined GG’s school....

DESCRIPTION Which substances are polluting air the most? What is the ozone hole? How much CO2 is emitted by burning 1 litre of petrol? Which count...

DESCRIPTION How does milk help me grow ? Is egg white better or egg yellow ? Red, yellow and orange foods - yes or no ? Vitamins essential ? Why do...

DESCRIPTION Banging against furniture. Falling while playing. Cutting your finger on something sharp...some days can be painful! But did you know t...

DESCRIPTION Ever wondered about the perennial mysteries of nature? How do the northern lights produce their colourful display? How do meteor shower...

DESCRIPTION For thousands of years, humans have probed and pondered over our planetary home. How was the Earth formed? How old is it? How did it be...

DESCRIPTIONCan you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels we...

DESCRIPTION Daddies that are Mummies! Mummies that eat Daddies! Shrimps that could knock you out with one punch! Touch-me-not frogs! A wildcat tha...

DESCRIPTIONThe seemingly limitless universe comprises galaxies, stars, and planets. Earth, is one among the many planets that dot the universe. Dis...

DESCRIPTION Anting, preening, imprinting; what do you think these are? Do you know the difference between nidifuguous and nidiculous, or does all t...

DESCRIPTIONTalking on the phone, text-messaging, chatting on the internet and emailing—today, there are many ways to send and receive information! ...

DESCRIPTION Turn the pages of this book to enter India’s animal kingdom. Learn interesting facts about various animals—from the majestic tiger, the...

DESCRIPTIONCan you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels we...

DESCRIPTIONCan you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels we...

DESCRIPTION Nothing can go faster than the speed of light. But it seems the superfast, snazzy, chic, and hi-tech vehicles will soon outshine this a...

DESCRIPTIONLight is a form of energy made up of tiny particles called photons. Sound is nothing but the vibration of air molecules, when they gain ...

DESCRIPTION We live on a rich, colourful and diverse planet. Whether we care or not, understand or don’t - our everyday actions have far-reaching c...

DESCRIPTION Water has many avatars. It can be likened to the holy trinity of creator, preserver, and destroyer. Water is also timeless. Nature has ...

DESCRIPTION Rainwater is the purest form of water on earth and water is a cyclic resource that is continuously cycled in nature and can also be reu...

DESCRIPTION If you are not a military-trained commando or wilderness expert but just an ordinary child, then what’s the best way to survive in the ...

DESCRIPTIONClaws as combs, cutlery, daggers or diggers. Talons that help in gripping to those that strike terror in the hearts of enemies. Pincers ...

DESCRIPTIONDry leaves and twigs, branches, and dry animal dung have kindled our kitchen fires for thousands of years. These biofuels fell out of fa...

DESCRIPTIONThe poles are not just vast expanses of snow and ice. They support a unique plant and animal life, like the penguins, polar bear, caribo...

DESCRIPTION The Jamun Tree and other stories on the environment provides an insider’s view–from the villages, of work related to natural resource m...

DESCRIPTION Today life can’t be imagined without a computer. It makes accessing information and communicating across the globe possible in a few se...

DESCRIPTION Which Indian state has the maximum number of polluted rivers? What is meant by reverse osmosis? How is water quality linked to human he...

DESCRIPTIONFrom a stationary rock to a rushing waterfall, energy is everywhere.This book covers the different types of energy and explains the role...

DESCRIPTIONCan something as tiny as the atom produce most of the energy the world needs? Can something that has taken thousands of lives be harness...

DESCRIPTIONDo you know that as many as 30 to 50 per cent of all species will possibly vanish forever by the middle of this century? Human activitie...

DESCRIPTION'Sun Magic' is an interesting story about how a class of students compete to make the 'Best Garden' and how they realize that, more than...

DESCRIPTION Today, we can travel across the world in very short periods of time through fast-moving vehicles. It was not possible a few decades ago...

DESCRIPTIONThink a tail is just an appendage? Think again! Ever wondered why some tails have scales, while others have hair? Find out how tails can...

DESCRIPTION Where does our food come from? Trees and plants. How do plants make this food? Through the process of photosynthesis. What causes phot...

DESCRIPTION The need for security and comfort must have motivated prehistoric man to form his own cave dwelling. Since then, the concept of a house...

DESCRIPTION People stranded, schools shut, roads clogged, and electricity snapped—floods can truly wreak havoc and bring life to a standstill. Indi...

DESCRIPTION Rivers and lakes are storehouses of fresh water. They are also important habitats for fishes, birds, and mammals. It is no wonder that ...

DESCRIPTIONDo you know why the balsam is also called ‘touch-me-not’? Can you recognize a glory lily from a lantana? Do you know which flower is als...

DESCRIPTION Can you imagine having no petrol for your car? Can you imagine no electricity to power your lights, fridge, and television? The fuels w...

DESCRIPTIONDid you know that energy consumption by humans has increased by at least 30,000 times in the last 5000 years? In Delhi alone, there are ...

DESCRIPTION How do we get electricity from atoms? How do energy-saving cars work? How do we get paper from trees? Find out the answers to these que...

DESCRIPTION You must’ve read about the magic of the wizards. But have you read about the magic of the wild? Become friends with various wild creatu...

DESCRIPTION Pain in your stomach? Rushing to the loo time and again? Feeling sick just looking at food? It could be your stomach telling you it has...

DESCRIPTION We cannot see them with our naked eyes but they are everywhere. They move like us, breathe like us, and eat like us. In fact, these tin...

DESCRIPTIONDo you know that a chocolate wrapper cannot be recycled? Do you know that a plastic water bottle can lie in a garbage dump for up to fiv...

DESCRIPTIONThey can dance, mimic, act, and perform tricks! Put your hands together for nature s performers! Be entertained as you read about the tr...

DESCRIPTION Meet Green Genius, a seven-year-old nature lover. His careless uncle Gopu Chacha, however, doesn’t bother much about the environment. H...

DESCRIPTIONDid you know that fins can be used as ‘legs’, crutches, seats or even ‘wings’? Or that the Bichir’s fins resemble tiny flags? What’s uni...

DESCRIPTIONTrash, oil spills, and climate change these are only few of water s troubles. Our drinking water supplies are shrinking, even as we cont...

DESCRIPTIONHydrogen is the simplest element we know. It's in water and in the earth's crust,and now, it's in the hydrogen fuel cell. What is hydrog...

DESCRIPTIONLearn about the strangest and oddest fruits and vegetables on earth—beans that stink, yet are eaten with relish; a fruit that looks like...

DESCRIPTIONDid you know you can tell what an animal eats by just looking at its teeth? Or that South Americans use the sharp, triangular teeth of p...

DESCRIPTIONComposting is fun and easy! It’s also really good for the planet. It helps make the soil healthy and cleans up the earth at the same tim...

DESCRIPTIONWhy does a pelican have a pouch under its beak? What is a casque? Which bird’s beak is compared to a carpenter’s tools? How did the tail...

DESCRIPTIONIt tousles your hair, blows your balloon away, and scuttles clouds along the sky. Millers have ground corn in windmills with help from w...

DESCRIPTIONIt can cut through mountains, it can shape civilizations, and it can bring light into people's lives. That's the awesome power of water!...

DESCRIPTION Cars and factories keep spewing fumes into the air. Pollutants are destroying the ozone layer that protects us from the sun's harmful u...

DESCRIPTIONDo you know that the amount of waste generated everyday on Earth, in cities alone, is enough to fill a fleet of trucks covering 5,000 ki...

DESCRIPTION The world is on the move. Animals,plants, and man-made vehicles, all are equipped to move in different ways. Learn all about things on ...

DESCRIPTIONDid you know that light can bend, split, and bounce? Have you ever wondered why we cannot see colour in dimly lit places? Can you name t...

DESCRIPTIONLearn about the strangest and oddest natural phenomena on the earth—spinning winds called dust devils, mirages, ball lightning, smoking ...

DESCRIPTIONCan you see the wind? No, but you can always feel it, and sometimes hear and smell it too! So, what is the wind? Wind can be our worst e...

DESCRIPTIONThe big, bright sun is just another star! Really, it is true! Did you know that its rays are full of packets of energy? And that there a...

DESCRIPTION Meet Green Genius, a seven-year-old boy, who loves to keep his neighbourhood clean and green. GG lives with his family, his pet kitten ...

DESCRIPTION Where does the garbage from our homes land up? What is e-waste? Why is plastic dangerous? How is waste generation linked to global war...

DESCRIPTIONDid you know that water goes round and round in an endless cycle—from oceans and rivers to the air and back again? And that water has a ...

DESCRIPTIONMeet the strangest and oddest animals on earth—a pocket-sized kangaroo with elephant ears, a lizard with horns, a leafy sea dragon that ...

DESCRIPTION Grandma cobra has lost her tooth, and she is furious because she can’t find it. To make it worse, it is a moonless night and the jungle...

DESCRIPTIONDid you know that water goes round and round in an endless cycle—from oceans and rivers to the air and back again? And that water has a ...

DESCRIPTIONHow many times have you been told to avoid cheesy pizzas and yummy burgers so that you stay healthy? When was the last time you reached ...

DESCRIPTIONOceans cover two-thirds of our planet, holding 97 per cent of the earth’s water. But oceans are much more than vast expanses of water. B...

DESCRIPTIONEnter the vast and wonderful animal kingdom and meet its various inhabitants. From the single-celled amoeba to the gigantic blue whale; ...

DESCRIPTION Prehistoric people made clothes to protect themselves from harsh weather. Since then, clothing has gone through so many changes, the fi...

DESCRIPTION The hippopotamus's strength, the cheetah's speed and the golden-poison dart frog's poison, make them all a part of nature's warrior clu...

DESCRIPTIONAbout 30 per cent of our earth is covered by mountains, which are home to unique plants and animals. But what are mountains and how are ...

DESCRIPTIONLearn about the strangest and oddest natural formations on the earth—deep underwater caves, cone-shaped mounds that look like chocolate ...

DESCRIPTION Learning about Birds educates young learners about birds in an interesting, fun-filled format. It explains fascinating facts about blue...

DESCRIPTIONThe past shapes our future, and our planet's past has been an especially fascinating one. Knowing about the origin of life, the extincti...

DESCRIPTION Outer space (often called space) comprises the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. In...