Forget the internet, there's a hidden superhighway under your feet, and it's almost a billion Sun trips longForget the internet, there's a hidden superhighway under your feet, and it's almost a billion Sun trips long and scientists have now mapped...
17 Jun, 2026, 04.13 AM IST
Scientists just mapped 110 quadrillion kilometers of hidden fungal threads underground, weighing about five times all humans combinedVast underground fungal networks, stretching billions of times to the sun, exist in Earth's soil. These hyphae, finer than hair, weigh more...
16 Jun, 2026, 03.00 PM IST
How A 407-Million-Year-Old Fossil From Scotland Revealed One Of Earth’s Oldest Plant-Fungus PartnershipsA remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces lavoisierae, living...
15 Mar, 2026, 06.43 PM IST
Forests Are Warning Us About Drought, and the Signal Is Hidden in Their TrunksTrees have a silent daily pulse. Sunlight causes them to shrink as water moves up. At night, they expand as they refill. Scientists use spe...
25 Feb, 2026, 03.04 PM IST
How Trees Warn Each Other of Danger Through the SoilBeneath forest floors, intricate fungal networks link trees, facilitating the exchange of nutrients and chemical signals. Stressed trees ca...
23 Feb, 2026, 03.54 PM IST
Earth Once Had Purple Oceans, Scientists SayEarly Earth might have shimmered in shades of purple, not green, according to the Purple Earth Hypothesis. Researchers propose that before ...
22 Feb, 2026, 04.57 PM IST
The Wood Wide Web: The Secret Underground Network That Lets Trees Share Food and “Talk”Beneath the forest floor, a vast network of fungi, known as mycorrhizal networks, connects trees, facilitating the exchange of nutrients an...
22 Feb, 2026, 04.54 PM IST
Why Leaves Change Colour in Autumn: What’s Really Happening Biochemically?Autumn's vibrant leaf colours are a result of intricate biochemical processes, not mere decay. As chlorophyll breaks down, revealing hidden...
20 Feb, 2026, 03.10 PM IST
Utricularia Furcellata: Rare carnivorous plant found for first time in western Himalayan regionThe discovery by the Uttarakhand forest department team consisting of Range Officer Harish Negi and Junior Research Fellow Manoj Singh has ...
26 Jun, 2022, 10.46 AM IST
'Carbon stored in soil entering atmosphere faster'02 Aug, 2018, 04.50 PM IST
- Marine reserves can help mitigate climate change effects
San Francisco, June 9 (IANS) An international research team has evaluated 145 peer-reviewed studies and concluded that "highly protected" m...
09 Jun, 2017, 10.49 AM IST
Warm nights could flood atmosphere with carbon: StudyEarth's ecosystems absorb about a quarter of carbon from the atmosphere, and tropical forests account for about one-third of land-based pla...
08 Dec, 2015, 01.32 PM IST
Artificial photosynthesis method turns waste CO2 into fuelsResearchers have developed new system that uses sunlight to convert waste carbon dioxide into valuable chemical products such as biodegrada...
24 Apr, 2015, 05.56 PM IST
Tropical forests absorb more CO2 than thought: NASAForests and other land vegetation currently remove up to 30 per cent of human carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere during photosynt...
02 Jan, 2015, 02.10 PM IST
- East Himalayan forests turning brown: Study
In what appears to be another grim outcome of climate change, a study has found that forests in eastern Himalayas are gradually 'browning'.
21 Oct, 2013, 03.57 AM IST
- How forest ecosystems adapt to more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
A study from researchers in KIT has revealed that while carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere increases, forests enhance their wat...
12 Jul, 2013, 04.14 PM IST
- Plants don't make greenhouse gases
Plants do not produce tens of millions of tonnes of the potent greenhouse gas methane, says a new study, dismissing the earlier reports tha...
15 Jan, 2009, 09.25 AM IST