Environment

Researchers Withdraw Seeds From 'Doomsday' Vault To Address Food Crisis In Syria

Researchers at the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) hope that the seeds withdrawn from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will help improve cro...

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Climate Change Consensus Extends Beyond Climate Scientists

A Purdue University-led survey of nearly 700 scientists from nonclimate disciplines shows that more than 90% believe that average global temperatures are higher than pre-1800s...

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China Commits To Addressing Climate Change For The First Time

Speaking from the White House lawn during his first state visit to Washington, Chinese President Xi Jinping committed the country to a national cap-and-trade program for the f...

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MUSK: We're Headed For A Climate Refugee Nightmare

?Today?s refugee problem is perhaps a small indication of what the future will be like if we do not take action with respect to climate change,? Musk said during his opening r...

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The World Has A Doomsday Seed Vault In The Arctic, And It Just Saw A Withdrawal

But the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is anything but fiction. And if its Norse god-like name didn't already imbue it with a sense of importance, its purpose will - it's meant to...

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A Total Of $2.6 Trillion Is Now Being Divested From Fossil Fuels

?One year ago today we announced that the total was $52 billion, and committed to tripling that figure,? said Ellen Dorsey, the executive director of Wallace Global Fund, who ...

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How Mobile Phones Are Enabling Quality Maternal And Child Healthcare

In 1996, Aparna Hegde was a resident doctor at Sion Hospital, one of Mumbai?s largest public health facilities, when a woman who had just delivered a baby was rushed into emer...

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A Massive Amount Of Death Is Plaguing The World's Oceans

Based on a study of 5,829 populations of 1,234 mammal, bird, reptile, and fish species in the world's oceans, the WWF found a decline of 49 percent between 1970 and 2012. Fish...

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Volkswagen Just Lost $17 Billion Because It Allegedly Cheated On Emissions Tests

At the center of the scandal is software, installed in upwards of 500,000 diesel vehicles, that was able to detect when the car was undergoing an official emissions test. The ...

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Scientists Want To See Microbeads Banned — And California Is Leading The Way

In a recent report, researchers from seven institutions have estimated that every day, a whopping 808 trillion microbeads are washed down drains in the United States, while so...

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RETROSCOPE: MIRACLE AND ‘THE CURSE’ OF JAI SANTOSHI MAA

Khalid Mohamed looks back at 1975, the year of Sholay and the miraculous success of Jai ...

October 22 2025

MOVIES: A GENTLE DOWNPOUR OF INDIE SUCCESS

Ritopriyo Saha’s short film Chhoti Baarish (Little Rain) is creating ripples acros...

October 19 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: THE QUESTION UNANSWERED

As India celebrates the birth centenary of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, the Bard of the Brahmapu...

October 18 2025