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Italy planted Norway spruce across the Alps in the 1930s, a deliberate-but-naive reforestation drive, but 90 years on, plant diversity is 50% lower than in native forestsA 90-year-old reforestation project in Italy's Prealps planted Norway spruce. A new study reveals this decision drastically reduced plant d...
Project Hail Mary is real? Scientists discover vast underground fungal network spanning 110 quadrillion kilometresA massive underground fungal network, stretching billions of times to the Sun and back, has been mapped. This hidden web connects plants, s...
Fed up of mosquitoes? 6 indoor plants that can reduce mosquitos in your homeMosquitoes are a persistent problem in India, but natural remedies offer a greener solution. Several indoor plants, including Lemon Balm, C...
A 2022 volcano eruption in Pacific may have vented a new weapon to fight climate changeA 2022 volcanic eruption unexpectedly revealed a powerful methane destruction mechanism in the stratosphere. Researchers observed high form...
Scientists thought this ancient ice sheet was stable until buried fossils revealed a lost forest beneath AntarcticaScientists discovered fossils revealing Antarctica was once a swampy temperate rainforest. This ancient forest existed around 90 million ye...
Curiosity finds molecules needed for ancient life on MarsNASA's Curiosity rover has discovered over 20 organic molecules, including proto-DNA-like structures, in Mars' Gale Crater. This groundbrea...
It stands over 100 feet tall, is nearly 200 feet wide at the base, and may be older than many famous monuments; now NOAA believes that this Maug coral may hold clues to the future of reefsScientists discovered an ancient, massive Porites coral colony, estimated to be over 2,000 years old, in the Maug caldera near the Mariana ...
Is the Ground Beneath Us Releasing More Carbon Than We Think?Beneath American soil, vast carbon reserves are stored. These underground stores, built over centuries and millennia, are now a focus for s...
James Webb telescope discovers a cosmic oddity: A lemon-shaped exoplanet that has scientists stunnedThe James Webb Space Telescope has found a strange exoplanet with a lemon-like shape. The planet orbits a dead star and has a rare carbon-f...
Did life already exist on Mars? NASA's rover unearths ancient clues of a habitable red planetNASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered siderite, a carbonate mineral, in Mars’ Gale Crater, offering strong evidence that the Red Planet onc...
NASA Curiosity Rover’s new discovery could revolutionize our understanding of MarsNASA claims that new clues uncovered by its Curiosity rover could prove to revolutionise humanity's understanding of Mars's past. One of th...
NASA finds 'Waterworld with a boiling ocean' on exoplanet. Know if life too has been found thereAn 'hycean' or a world of water under a hydrogen-rich atmosphere has been found on a sub-Neptune distant exoplanet. It contains an ocean of...
NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers potentialy habitable world over 8 times bigger than EarthUsing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an Earth-like exoplanet located millions of light years away that coul...
Climate change may turn carbon sinks into emission source: Study- Arctic permafrost may unleash carbon within decades: NASA
Washington, March 6 (IANS) Permafrost in the coldest northern Arctic -- formerly thought to be at least temporarily shielded from global wa...
Climate change linked to more flowery forestsA Florida State University study finds that increased concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide have led to the unexpected bloom in Pana...
- Fungi made life on Earth possible: Study
London, Dec 19 (IANS) Life on earth would have been impossible without the humble fungi, as they played an essential role in the creation o...
- Fossil fuel formation linked to rise in atmosphere's oxygen
New York, Dec 31 (IANS) The rapid rise in the atmospheres oxygen roughly 500 million years ago which made advanced animal life possible on ...
- Comet strike may have triggered ancient warming event
New York, Oct 14 (IANS) A comet struck our home planet a long time ago and it could have triggered the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PE...
US SUV ban may light up livesPhasing out the oversized, power-packed SUVs, considered the hallmark of a Midwestern dream in the US, would reduce global emissions by a w...