Environment

Adani's Carmichael Mine Granted 'Unprecedented' Powers, Says Report

Powers granted by the Queensland government for Adani’s proposed Carmichael mine are unprecedented for a private commercial development, new findings reveal. Legal analy...

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Scientists Fight For An Endangered Tortoise With A Secret Weapon: Lasers

“We have completely overloaded the desert with these highly intelligent predators with a high metabolic rate. They go into predatory overdrive when their eggs hatch,&rdq...

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Great Barrier Reef: Why Are Government And Business Perpetuating The Big Lie?

Great Barrier Reef historian Iain McCalman wrote that the new measures“deliberately ignore the dire long-term threats to the reef that are contained inthe now ...

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War Is Hell – For The Natural World Too Michael Mccarthy

The human suffering inflicted by war is so terrible that we may naturally overlook the environmental damage which large-scale conflict causes. Sometimes, of course, it is all ...

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Shipping Industry Agrees To Cap Sulphur Emissions By 2020

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) agreed on Thursday to set a cap on the sulphur content of marine fuels, in a move that campaigners predict will sa...

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Fears For Isolated Bolivian Tribe Met By Chinese Oil Firm In Amazon

Teams from a Chinese oil and gas company exploring in the remote Bolivian Amazon have reportedly had near encounters with a group of indigenous people living in what the Unite...

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World On Track To Lose Two-Thirds Of Wild Animals By 2020, Major Report Warns

The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon...

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Prehistoric Trees Could ‘Future-Proof’ Forests Against Climate Change

As you walk through the landscape, you pass through a patchwork of forests that were logged at different times. You may go from bushwhacking through a dense thicket of young f...

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We Can Save Elephants. But Can We Save Wild Elephants?

I have just returned from Kenya’s North Eastern Province where one night, camped out in a dry riverbed with just a mosquito net for cover, a herd of elephants emerged ou...

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Can Snitching On Polluters Save Delhi’s Air?

A number of solutions have been proposed to combat Delhi’s runaway pollution problem, ranging from incentivizing solar to asking people to just not go to ...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: FETED ABROAD, FORGOTTEN AT HOME

When art-house brilliance wins global acclaim but faces neglect in its own country, it f...

October 17 2025

TRENDING: TIMELESS LIGHT AND LIVING MEMORIES

At Piramal Gallery, NCPA, I revisited Bombay’s cultural past through the lens of t...

October 16 2025

BOLLYWOOD: ARYAN KHAN BREAKS BOLLYWOOD RULES

“I am in love with your wife (Maya)!” — a line from Kabhi Alvida Naa K...

October 15 2025