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Blanket for ice cover? Scientists wraps Swiss glacier with sheep’s wool to protect it from melting; early tests found it protected the ice about as well as plastic sheetsA Swiss glacier experiment is testing sheep’s wool as a natural alternative to plastic covers used to slow glacier melting. Researchers fou...- In 2021, 1,000 Swiss volunteers buried 2,000 pairs of cotton underpants to test soil life. 5 years later, results from 12,000 teabags showed which soils were most activeIn 2021, around 1,000 Swiss volunteers buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear and 12,000 tea bags in different soils. The experim...
- Wall street bets on shielding Indian real estate from climate disasterClimate resilience is emerging as a new measure of value in India's realty market. Investors are pouring money into infrastructure to prote...
- Not Shark or Seal: Penguin's biggest predator on this island is a 20-gram animal and South Africa is now planning a 550-tonne poison solutionSouth Africa is preparing a large-scale operation to eliminate mice on Marion Island. Helicopters will drop 550 tons of poison bait across ...
- What’s beneath Switzerland? A massive scan just revealed the hidden landscapeSwitzerland’s new 10-meter resolution sunlight map (swissrad10) tracks solar energy across complex terrain. By measuring shifting shadows f...
- These busy beavers are quietly helping fight climate change more than experts thoughtBeaver dams carbon storage: New research reveals beavers are more than just landscape architects; their dams create wetlands that act as si...
- What Happens When We Stop Crossing Mountains and Start Going Through ThemMountains once defined human limits, but 19th-century tunnels began a shift. Modern base tunnels, like the Gotthard, ignore mountain shapes...
- Climate disasters cost India $12 billion in 2025: Why ecology is key to economic growthClimate disasters are impacting India's economy significantly. Floods and heatwaves cause substantial losses and reduce productivity. Curre...
- France’s largest tap water ban exposes global threat of ‘forever chemicals’A tap water ban in eastern France due to high PFAS levels has spotlighted the dangers of these "forever chemicals." The contamination, link...
- Paris hits 41°C, Eiffel Tower closes as Saharan blast grips FranceEurope is grappling with an intense heat wave, triggering red alerts in multiple countries as temperatures soar. France faces school closur...
- Four decades later, Bhopal burns again and this time, it’s Tarapur breathing the poisonForty years after Bhopal suffered the worst industrial tragedy in modern times, the inhabitants of Tarapur village are exposed to the fumes...
- Scientists warn of climate threat to chocolateA new report found that "climate change, due primarily to burning oil, coal, and methane gas, is causing hotter temperatures to become more...
- A different way to tackle scope 3 emissionsThe Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) proposed new metrics for dealing with Scope 3 emissions, which constitute over 70% of a company...
- Agriculture 4.0 can wait. It is time for farmers to embrace desi techniquesAs climate change impacts crop productivity, experts say it’s the time to study the pros and cons of modern as well as natural farming prac...
- Solution to pollution: Are electric cars ‘green’?While demand for EVs is rising, India needs to ensure that this transition in transportation is truly green.
- Microbes found in Alps and Arctic that can digest plastic at low temperaturesScientists have found microorganisms capable of digesting plastic in the high altitudes of the Alps of Switzerland and in the polar regions...
- From India to Brazil, farmers face ‘Post-Apocalyptic’ food crisisThe world is facing a new era of rapidly increasing food prices that could push almost 2 billion more people into hunger in a worst-case cl...
- Does a real anti-ageing pill exist?Derivatives of rapamycin have been approved for use against certain kidney, lung and breast cancers.
- Patent protection: Cancer survivors hope that Novartis verdict will help patientsCancer survivors like Lisa Ray are hoping that the SC's rejection of Novartis’ bid to patent a cancer drug will improve the quality of thei...
- Drug to offer 'single-dose' malaria cure foundScientists claim to have discovered a drug that could cure all strains of malaria with a single oral dose and also block transmission of th...
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