Why Dung Beetles Are Digging Deeper and What It Reveals About Surviving a Hotter PlanetTiny dung beetles are showing remarkable adaptation to a warming planet. These insects are digging deeper nests to protect their young from...
04 Apr, 2026, 07.05 PM IST
A 90-Million-Year-Old Forest Hidden Under Antarctica Is Rewriting What We Thought We Knew About EarthScientists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossilized forest in Antarctica, dating back nearly 90 million years. This discovery revea...
30 Mar, 2026, 06.31 PM IST
What Did Antarctica Hide for 190 Million Years? Jurassic Dinosaurs ExplainedAntarctica was once a lush continent, not an icy wasteland. Fossils of Glacialisaurus hammeri, a giant herbivore, show this. Around 190 mil...
05 Mar, 2026, 06.56 PM IST
A Rainforest Once Covered West Antarctica: Sediment Cores Reveal How It VanishedAstonishingly, dense temperate rainforests once flourished near the South Pole 90 million years ago. Fossil evidence from seabed cores reve...
01 Mar, 2026, 11.09 PM IST
NASA scientist warns: Earth nearing point of no return 37 years after his first predictionFormer NASA scientist James Hansen, who initially cautioned Congress in regard to global warming in 1988, has revealed another urgent alert...
12 Nov, 2025, 06.39 PM IST
Third Worldisation of the first worldTwenty-four people collapsed, and six were hospitalized from excessive heat at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas, where temperatures hit 40...
13 Jun, 2024, 10.46 PM IST
How climate change threatens global agricultureAgriculture represents nearly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions -- largely from livestock and fertilisers.
12 Dec, 2023, 09.59 AM IST
Marine life is fleeing to the Poles due to elevated sea temperatures: StudyThis mass movement of marine life, termed tropicalisation, is changing the ecological landscape of our oceans and leading to a cascade of c...
29 Nov, 2023, 10.34 PM IST
Reducing embodied emissions in building design could save up to 6 gigatonnes of carbon by 2050Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Bath, UK, devised a computer model and used it to estimate that these recommendations coul...
24 Mar, 2023, 05.55 PM IST
This is the summer of our discontentWinter, as we on the subcontinental plains well know, despite being severe in many parts, remains a ‘go to’ season imaginatively. The charm...
15 Aug, 2021, 11.03 PM IST
Delhiites, enjoy your 1.1° C of separationYes, it’s the coldest since the last 15 years. Warm regards.
02 Jan, 2021, 11.26 AM IST
Scientists believe coronavirus will become seasonal like flu, but the time hasn't come yetThe factors governing seasonality of Covid cannot halt the spread in the summer months.
16 Sep, 2020, 10.37 AM IST
More scientists voice concern over 'intolerance'After a group of scientists petitioned President Pranab Mukherjee against intolerance in the country, more of their ilk have joined the pro...
29 Oct, 2015, 03.17 PM IST
Scientists can now forecast flu outbreaks in subtropical climatesJust like weather forecasting, scientists can now predict the timing and intensity of influenza outbreaks in subtropical climates.
01 Aug, 2015, 11.22 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
Blue blood allows octopus to survive extreme temperaturesThe study shows that a blue coloured pigment, hemocyanin, in their blood, responsible for oxygen transport, crucially allows octopods to li...
05 Jul, 2013, 08.55 PM IST
Climate change threat looms over Kailash-Mansarovar, says new reportA new study predicts that in the Kailash region, temperatures will increase as it will rain, colder regions will recede, forests and meadow...
05 Jun, 2013, 04.44 PM IST