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‘Earth is warming at its fastest pace in 10,000 years — business leaders must heed the Anthropocene’The 25th ET Awards for Corporate Excellence featured a special address by Mrs Meera Jain. She highlighted the pressing need to address clim...12 Mar, 2025, 09.42 PM IST- Industry leaders must invest in a better-informed future: Meera Jain at ET AwardsMeera Jain, founder of Times Evoke, emphasizes the urgent need for business leaders to redirect their resources towards environmental initi...10 Mar, 2025, 08.56 AM IST
- US corporates know Trump 2.0 will last four years — but climate change’s long ark won’t go away: Andrew HoffmanAndrew Hoffman, a professor at the University of Michigan, explores how business strategies and market demands intersect with environmental...19 Feb, 2025, 11.12 PM IST
- Hunting behind disappearance of large animals: StudyA recent study from Aarhus University's ECONOVO Center concludes that human hunting, rather than climate change, was the primary cause of m...04 Jul, 2024, 04.05 PM IST
- ET Awards: We should look beyond speciesism — industry relies on nature, says Meera Jain, Founder, Evoke“Industry relies on the conservation of nature,” Jain emphasised, explaining “the real math underpinning our existence”.18 Mar, 2024, 04.24 PM IST
- End of worlds, an ongoing apocalypseThere have been five mass extinctions on Earth in the past. The sixth extinction refers to the accelerated, widespread extinctions (plural ...01 Dec, 2023, 11.09 PM IST
- When the weight of the world fell on one geologist's shouldersThe Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) is set to announce the “golden spike,” the ground zero of the Anthr...16 Jul, 2023, 11.28 AM IST
- Welcome to the Anthropocene, Earth's new chapterThe Anthropocene Working Group will announce the location of ground-zero for the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch borne of human...10 Jul, 2023, 11.40 AM IST
- Scientists make 'disturbing' discovery on remote island, spot plastic rocks off Brazilian coastGeologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact.21 Mar, 2023, 05.51 PM IST
- Elon Musk's girlfriend Grimes says she 'finally' has Covid-19The 32-year-old musician shared the news on Instagram.11 Jan, 2021, 02.11 PM IST
- Seven-point plan to help tackle growing threat of climate change: ReportA team of international researchers, including experts from the University of Exeter in the UK, examined how politicians and legislators ca...14 Jan, 2019, 11.57 AM IST
- Human made structures on Earth now weighs 30 trillion tonnes: studyAn international team led by geologists at University of Leicester in the UK has made the first estimate of the sheer size of the physical ...01 Dec, 2016, 01.24 PM IST
- Human impact affects Earth's global energy flow: StudyThe impact humans have made on Earth in terms of how they produce and consume resources has formed a 'striking new pattern' in the planet's...28 Mar, 2016, 01.57 PM IST
- Human impact has created a 'plastic planet': StudyThe study examined the evidence that we now live in the Anthropocene, an epoch where humans dominate the Earth's surface geology.28 Jan, 2016, 12.52 PM IST
- Ancient Maya activities left lasting impact on environmentMaya activity more than 2,000 years ago not only contributed to the decline of their environment but continues to influence today's environ...07 Sep, 2015, 11.30 AM IST
- Human beings deserve a new geological age named after themThe current 11,700-year-old Holocene period is a newbie by geological standards — the earth has been around for around 4.5 billion years.14 Mar, 2015, 07.57 AM IST
- Scientists warn of Earth's sixth mass extinction eventSince 1500, more than 320 terrestrial vertebrates have become extinct. Populations of the remaining species show a 25 per cent average decl...25 Jul, 2014, 04.43 PM IST
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