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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...
Weather swings, monsoon risks, and the growing threat to mango, apple cropsThe agriculture industry has evolved historically through adaptation and resilience, and now it is time to speed up this transformation, em...
Macro, the Mightiest: Why India’s biggest macro variable still falls from the skyThe 2026 monsoon comes with a clear warning: Rainfall is forecast at 92% of the long-period average, with higher-than-usual probability of ...
These 5 innocent hair habits may be ruining your scalp healthHair care needs attention after 40. Everyday actions can harm hair, causing thinning and dullness. Experts reveal that dirty hairbrushes sp...
What Snake Holes in Your Yard Actually Look Like, And Which Ones to Worry AboutSnakes do not dig their own burrows, instead utilizing tunnels made by other animals. Identifying these "borrowed homes" involves looking f...
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...
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...
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...
You can’t stop a landslide, the only thing you can do is save lives: M RajeevanIn the early hours of July 30, consecutive landslides struck Wayanad, Kerala, marking one of the worst natural disasters in the state's his...
Assam, Army wanted full removal of AFSPA; 'cautious' Centre kept it: Himanta Biswa SarmaAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that the state government and the Army wanted a complete withdrawal of the Armed Forces (Sp...
IMD weather warning: We're only in Feb but heatwave condition predicted for these statesHeatwave: A senior meteorologist at the IMD said temperatures in northwest India are likely to drop by two degrees Celsius over the next tw...
Northwest, central and west India to record max temp 3 to 5 deg above normal in next few days: IMDNorthwest, central and west India are predicted to record maximum temperatures three to five degrees above normal over the next five days, ...
Could you grow plants on the moon? New study provides answersThis is not the first time that attempts have been made to grow plants in lunar regolith.
Rajnath Singh blames cops, but Army escapes flak despite heading operationsThe Union home minister highlighted the situation at a review meeting on Wednesday here and said these acts should be seen as terror acts.
ISIS would never be able to make hold over India: Mukhtar Abbas NaqviThe Minister said that their destructive agenda cannot defuse the agenda of development and good governance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
'Indo-Pak standoff may offset China's diplomatic gains'"It is possible that both countries as well as the international community might feel pressured to take effective measures to draw Pakistan...
Floods or weak monsoon: Effects of sharp swings in rainfall patterns may become stronger in futureComparisons are already being made with the heavy flooding in Uttarakhand in June last year as well as episodes of flash flooding in Leh in...
Near 25% of national potato yield is under jeopardyWest Bengal produces around 9.5 Million Ton of potato, around 25% of national yield, that is under jeopardy.
- Committed to natural farming
Green revolution through use of hybrid varieties, fertilizers and pesticides may have made many countries including India self reliant in f...
- Action before talks: PM To Zardari
India would review Pak's actions against terror outfits targetting India.