Environment

If We Burn All The World's Fossil Fuels, We'll Melt Antarctica & Flood The Earth.

"We show in simulations using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model that burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the ice sheet," the authors w...

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Historic Floods in Japan Force More Than 100,000 People From Their Homes

The rain came as a result of tropical storm Etau, which battered Japan's main island of Honshu and caused 20 inches of rain in some areas. The rainfall levels were twice Septe...

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Giant Prehistoric Viruses Could Be Awakened By Oil Drilling In Siberian Permafrost.

Several giant viruses have been discovered in the past decade, and although they have all turned out to be harmless, the findings have sparked fears that one day, humans could...

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India Prone To Bector-Borne Diseases, Heatwaves, Say Experts

India's extreme vulnerability to climate change will have a direct impact on the health of its population, experts said at a seminar on Friday. The World Health Organization h...

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It Turns Out Earth Has Seven Times as Many Trees as Previously Thought

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers describe using a combination of satellite imaging, boots on the ground trees-counting, and forest inventories...

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This Week in Storms: Typhoon Kila, Sudanese Dust, Hurricane Fred

Weather prediction involves a lot of probabilities (and no certainties) and informed guesses, but weather observation gets better every year. In part we can thank NASA's Terra...

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Tens of Thousands of Stranded Walruses Are Once Again Gathering in Alaska

With the sea ice where they rest and hunt melted away, thousands of walruses have once again flooded the shoreline near the village of Point Lay, Alaska. The massings, which a...

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These Ecuadorians Want to Seize Chevron's Canadian Assets

The villagers are trying to collect on a nearly $10 billion judgement by Ecuador's courts against Chevron, claiming they suffer from lingering health problems from toxic oil r...

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The UN Says Gaza Could Be Uninhabitable in Less Than Five Years

The findings of the UN's Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) echoed an earlier assessment made by the UN in 2011, which determined that Gaza would not be livable by t...

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The Ten-Year Mission To Study All The Ways The Arctic Is Doomed

Called the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE for short, the large-scale study will combine on-the-ground field studies as well as data from remote sensors?such ...

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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