Iran’s better, stealthier drones are remaking global warfareIran's drone technology is reshaping global conflicts, with drones based on Iranian designs being used in various countries, including Suda...
09 Apr, 2024, 02.05 PM IST
UAE could be the ideal place to test unique climate change solutionIt's important that by the middle of the century, the world eradicate billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air every year. Only this...
29 Sep, 2023, 09.28 AM IST
How shocking the ocean could turn it into a carbon removal powerhouseWhile the ocean is already Earth's most powerful tool for carbon removal, we need it to do some more to reach net zero emissions.
15 May, 2023, 09.40 AM IST
Sundarbans has 'lost 110 square kilometres of mangroves in two decades'"Huge mangroves were lost in the British era as well. There is a 5.2 mm rise in sea levels in the Sunderbans. People have been affected by ...
24 Jan, 2023, 12.13 AM IST
View: Lockdown and covid woes, then add cyclonic destructionAt some point the questions give way to explanations that involve the gods, or fate, or happenstance, or coincidence, or chaos. Answers bec...
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'Everything gone': People of Sundarbans stare at bleak futureWith livelihood lost and homes washed away, observers of the Sundarbans region feel the ecologically-fragile region, which has been under s...
23 May, 2020, 04.29 PM IST
Google pays homage to scientist Katsuko Saruhashi with a doodle on her 98th birth anniversaryDr Saruhashi is renowned for her groundbreaking research as a geochemist.
22 Mar, 2018, 01.46 PM IST
'Slimy seaweed' a magic potion for climate-vulnerable SunderbansThe slimy green seaweed that grows in the wild and has no takers could emerge as a life-saving magic potion for the climate-vulnerable inha...
22 Feb, 2014, 07.19 PM IST
'Slimy seaweed' a magic potion for climate-vulnerable SunderbansThe slimy green seaweed that grows in the wild and has no takers could emerge as a life-saving magic potion for the climate-vulnerable inha...
22 Feb, 2014, 06.56 PM IST
- Now, a climate model for Sunderbans
A team of nearly 50 scientists led by coastal engineering expert Robert Nicholls from Southampton University travelled to the Tiger camp in...
07 Jan, 2014, 03.24 AM IST
- US's Kyoto exit a big mistake: Former Obama goverment official
"America pulling out of the Kyoto protocol was not just a big mistake in terms of global relations and moral obligations, it was also a los...
06 Dec, 2012, 01.27 AM IST
- Gangasagar: Half-a-million dips and an island drowning in waste
On Makar Sankranti, the last day of the month of Poush (mid-January), nearly 5lakh pilgrims converge on an island in the Sunderbans archipe...
05 Jun, 2012, 07.19 AM IST
Sundarbans’ Saline KillerAshutosh Dali could not grow a single shoot in his field ever since it got flooded by saline water during last year’s Cyclone Aila. Yet, th...
05 Jun, 2010, 12.39 AM IST
- India to build capsule to carry two-person crew into space by 2015
Indian govt plans to hike its science budget, with special emphasis on developing semi-cryogenic rocket engines, building a space capsule t...
09 Jul, 2009, 01.15 PM IST
- Nayachar is no development zone, says expert
West Bengal government deciding on Nayachar island in East Midnapore district for locating the proposed mega chemical hub.
06 Sep, 2007, 10.40 AM IST