Environment

The World Bank Warns That The ‘Carbon Bubble’ Could Tank The Global Economy

This is great news for the environment, and bodes well for a sustainable future on Earth. But according to Rachel Kyte, the VP of the World Bank and its special envoy for clim...

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Almost Half Of The World's Ocean Life Has Died Off Since 1970

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature's 2015 Living Blue Planet report, since 1970, Earth has lost a whopping 49 percent of global marine animal species. For their inves...

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Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone Is Now a Thriving Wildlife Habitat

Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, and his colleagues found that some birds were adapting to the radioactive environment by producing higher le...

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Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Coral?

In 1998, an unusually sweltering El Ni?o did more than just break temperature records around the world?it heated up the oceans enough to spur what scientists came to call the ...

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How India's 'Sand Mafia' Pillages Land, Terrorizes People, And Gets Away With It

Nicknamed "red gold," the sand's individual particles are larger than those of other varieties, and its compressive strength makes it especially useful ? and highly prized ? f...

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Chile Launched The Largest Ocean Preserve In The Americas

The preserve protects the waters surrounding the Desventuradas Islands, which are two days? trip from the Chilean coast and home to many species that exist nowhere else. Fishi...

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Antarctica’s Weird And Wondrous Blood Falls Houses Tons Of Ancient Microbes.

Three million years ago, a glacier slid over an area of seawater that had made its way inland. The water being too salty to freeze, it just got trapped under the ice, along wi...

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How Hydroelectric Power May Undermine Brazil's Pledge To Slash Greenhouse Gases

Brazil's new pledge to slash its national carbon footprint by 43% by 2030 sounds like exactly the kind of aggressive commitment that environmentalists have been clamoring for ...

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India Unveils Climate Change Plan

India, the world?s third biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has pledged to source 40% of its electricity from renewable and other low-carbon sources by 2030. It is the last major...

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Scientists Urge RICO Investigation Of Corporate Climate Deniers

Climate-change denial has been compared to Big Tobacco?s 50-year-campaign to deny the dangers of cigarettes.Both attempted to muddy the waters of the public discussion by clai...

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COCKTAIL 2 TESTS LOVE’S LIMITS

Arnab Banerjee examines Homi Adajania’s Cocktail 2, exploring fidelity, trust, tem...

June 27 2026

PRESERVING JAMSHEDPUR'S LIVING LEGACY

The Parsis of Jamshedpur: Prof. Dr. Avinash Kolhe explores the rich legacy of Jamshedpur...

June 22 2026

THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM AT THE TABLE

As debates around immigration, citizenship and belonging intensify worldwide, Vinta Nand...

June 21 2026