Vatican Astrophysicists Offer New Way To Study Gravity After The Big Bang
Two Catholic priests, both astrophysicists from the Vatican Observatory, have suggested a radically new mathematical approach to studying the initial…
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Biden Plans $3.1 Billion Investment For Electric Car Batteries
The Biden administration has announced it will begin a $3.1 billion plan to boost domestic manufacturing of batteries, in a…
Oceans’ Memory Decline Due To Global Warming
Most of the world’s oceans are steadily losing their year-to-year ‘memory’ under global warming, researchers have warned. Ocean memory decline…
Bitcoin Miners Seek Ways To Dump Fossil Fuels
For the past year a company that “mines” cryptocurrency had what seemed the ideal location for its thousands of power-thirsty…
No Obituary For Earth: Scientists Fight Climate Doom Talk
It’s not the end of the world. It only seems that way. Climate change is going to get worse, but…
Months After Pledge, India Yet To Submit Emissions Targets
NEW DELHI (AP) — Four months after India announced its “net-zero” target at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow,…
20 Countries Account For 80 Percent Of All Emissions: John Kerry
Stating that only 20 countries on the planet account for 80 per cent of all emissions, US Special Presidential Envoy…
Climate Change Forces Rapid Melt Of Earth’s Highest Glacier
The highest glacier on Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, “may already be a relic from an older, colder, time,”…
One Third Of US Population Experiences Warmer Temperature
More than a third of the American population is currently experiencing rapid, above-average rates of temperature increase, with 499 counties…
Ancient Indian Temples Are Designated ‘Iconic,’ Worrying Preservationists
Promises of ‘better connectivity, more jobs and more tourists’ sound more like threats to some locals and conservationists. The ancient,…
Hitting Net-Zero Without Stopping Flying
One of the largest producers of carbon emissions is air travel, yet many view flying as a necessary enabler of…
India’s Environment Minister Yadav Discusses Climate With US Envoy John Kerry
India’s Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday had a telephonic call with US Special Presidential Envoy…
Earth, One Of God’s Failed Experiments?
Could the Earth be one of the trillions of experiments God is running throughout the universe? If so, will it…
International Day of Mountains: Rescuing the Stone Giants
December 11, 2021 was the International Day of Mountains and this year’s theme is “Sustainable Mountain Tourism”. For me, mountains…
Why India, Russia Blocked Move To Take Climate Change To UNSC
India and Russia have blocked a proposal that would have allowed the UN Security Council to deliberate on climate-related issues….
Asia Society Calls For Art Addressing Climate Change As Part Of New Awards
Responding to the urgency of accelerating climate change, Asia Society and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation are launching the Frankenthaler Climate…
Quest Begins To Drill Antarctica’s Oldest Ice
Efforts are about to get under way to drill a core of ice in Antarctica that contains a record of…
UN Plans To Drastically Expand Plastic Waste Management In India
The United Nations Development Programme aims to almost triple its plastic waste management to 100 cities in India by 2024,…
Fisker Unveils ‘World’s Most Sustainable Vehicle’ As Electric Vehicle Competition Heats Up
It seems among the investor community, all everyone talks about are the EV (electric vehicle) stocks – and only the…
Earth Has A Second Moon
It’s easy to be brand loyal to the moon. We’ve only got the one, after all, unlike Jupiter and Saturn,…
Glasgow, Greta, And Good Intentions
Both anxiety and hope are increasing in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow. There…
Reshma Kosaraju Wins Children’s Climate Prize
A teenager from Saratoga, California, has won the prestigious Children’s Climate Prize for Reshma Kosaraju, 15, of Saratoga, California, won…
Glossing Over in Glasgow – Some Thoughts on COP26
A week has gone by since COP 26 with 197 Parties ended in the Scottish city of Glasgow on extended…
Climate Change Will Destroy Environments, Undermine Efforts To Protect Sea Life
Newswise: Climate change is altering familiar conditions of the world’s oceans and creating new environments that could undermine efforts to…
Indian Panorama At IFFI 52 Held In Goa
With a promise to unfold stories collected from nook and corners of India on the big screen, the Indian Panorama…
Pope Urges Youth To Protect Environment
Pope Francis on Sunday praised young people for their efforts to protect the Earth’s environment and told them to “be…
Indian Brothers Win Children’s Peace Prize For Waste Project
Indian brothers Vihaan and Nav Agarwal won a prestigious children’s prize Saturday for a project they launched that aims to…
200 Nations Agree On Pact To Save Earth From Climate Change Glasgow Climate Pact Diluted After India, China Force Amendment On Emission From Coal
The two-week global conference ended with a historic agreement between the 200 national delegations who agreed to, for the first…
Climate Talks Draft Agreement Expresses ‘Alarm And Concern’
Governments are poised to express “alarm and concern” about how much Earth has already warmed and encourage one another to…
November 19th Will Have Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse In 580 Years
On November 19, stargazers can enjoy a partial lunar eclipse which will also be the last lunar eclipse of the…
Obama Urges World To Do More At Climate Summit
Former President Obama made an appearance at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow where he praised the global…
105 Countries At Climate Summit Pledge To Limit Methane
The announcement on November 2nd, 2021 by 105 countries, representing two thirds of the global economy, joining a U.S. and…
India Announces Net Zero Emissions Goal For 2070
India has promised to cut its emissions to net zero by 2070 – missing a key goal of the COP26…
6/10 Americans Are Concerned About Climate Change
President Joe Biden heads to a vital U.N. climate summit at a time when a majority of Americans regard the…
Artificial Intelligence Can Predict The Future Of The Earth
Newswise — AI offers additional possibilities, greater accuracy for climate models. Computer simulations that scientists use to understand the evolution of…
Record Rainfall Drenches East To West Coasts In US
A powerful storm that swept through California this week has set rainfall records and helped douse wildfires. But it remained…
Focus On China, US At UN Climate Change Conference
For two weeks in early November, the nations of the world will gather in Glasgow, Scotland, to negotiate updates to…
Mullaperiyar Dam- A Ticking Time Bomb In Kerala
Damocles Sword- we have heard about it or sometimes felt around a situation like that. But an old dam in…
Almost All Studies Show, Humans Cause Climate Change
Newswise — ITHACA, N.Y. – More than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by…
U.S. Bishops Silent On Moral Issue Of Climate Change
Newswise — According to a new study by professors and an alumna from Creighton University, the vast majority of U.S….
World’s Oldest Rubies Linked To Early Life
Newswise — While analyzing some of the world’s oldest coloured gemstones, researchers from the University of Waterloo discovered carbon residue…
Floods In Kerala Devastate Life, Properties
After heavy rains triggered a series of landslides in Kerala, residents of the particularly hard-hit areas of Kottayam and Idukki…
Reliance Acquires Norway-based REC Group For $771 Million
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) on Sunday acquired Norwegian-headquartered solar module maker REC Solar Holdings (REC Group) for an enterprise value of…
Health Of The Human Race & Survival Of The Planet In Danger
(IPS) – Addressing the UN General Assembly last month President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka raised several concerns, two that…
“Mystery Plant” From The Amazon Declared A New Species
Newswise — In 1973, a scientist stumbled upon a strange tree in the Amazon rainforest, unlike anything he’d ever seen….
Young Climate Activists Of Indian Origin Join Hands With UN Showcasing Achievements
The United Nations in India launched its climate campaign ‘We The Change’, which aims to showcase climate solutions pioneered by…
Human Footprints Thought To Be Oldest In North America Discovered
New scientific research conducted by archaeologists has uncovered what they believe are the oldest known human footprints in North America….
UN Urges World Leaders To Do More To Curtail Warming
Pressure keeps building on increasingly anxious world leaders to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change. There’s more of it…
The World’s Oceans Shapes The Fate Of The Superpowers
For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for dominance. But in the nuclear age, air power and…
John Kerry Lauds India’s Efforts To Address Climate Change
The US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry congratulated India for its ambitious climate targets and said that India…
Christian Leaders Unite To Issue Stark Warning Over Climate Crisis
Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, call on the world population – “whatever their…
Hurricane Ida Inflicts Misery Across Many States In US
From Louisiana to New York, communities are trying to piece lives back together more than a week after Hurricane Ida…
Students From India Develop Plant-Based Air Purifier
In a development that may help in addressing the issue of indoor air purification amid the ongoing pandemic, an Indian…
Arctic Warming Can Cause Severe Winter Weather
A new study has now pointed out that these changes in the Arctic region induced by anthropogenic global warming have…
United Airlines Plans To Purchase 15 Supersonic Overture Jets From Boom Supersonic
The US airline is the first to announce plans to go supersonic, reviving dreams from the late 1960s when British…
India To Sign Mou With Florida International University On Himalayan Geology
The Government of India have given approval for signing of a MoU between the Geological Survey of India (GSI) and…
Thunberg Warns, World Leaders Have No Excuse On Climate Change
Greta Thunberg said that the recently released UNICEF index indicated that children would be the worst affected. The world’s children…
Scientists Warn Time Of Reckoning Has Come For The Planet
Heatwaves and the heavy rains that cause flooding have become more intense and more frequent since the 1950s in most…
A Crucial Ocean Circulation’s Instability Would Have Serious Impacts On Our Weather
A crucial system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean that helps control temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and has implications…
Biden’s New Policy Will Ensure 50% Of Vehicles Sold In US By 2030 Are Electric
President Biden announced on August 5th a multistep strategy aimed at rapidly shifting Americans from gasoline-powered cars and trucks toward…
New York City’s Hidden Old-Growth Forests Scientists are salvaging centuries of climate and historical data from demolished structures
Newswise — In the popular imagination, New York City is a mass of soaring steel-frame skyscrapers. But many of the…
Decline In CO2 Cooled Earth’s Climate Over 30 Million Years Ago, Scientists Find
Newswise — New research led by the University of Bristol demonstrates that a decline in the concentration of atmospheric CO2…
Jainey Bavishi Nominated By Biden To Key Environmental Job
The Biden administration has nominated, a leading expert on responding to the challenges of climate change, Jainey Bavishi to a…
Climate Change Is Driving Deadly Weather Disasters From Arizona To Mumbai
Heat waves. Floods. Wildfires. It’s been a destructive summer so far, and forecasts for droughts, fires and hurricanes are looking…
Largest Known Comet Is Heading Close Enough To Us To Become Visible
Astronomers have discovered the largest known comet, and it’s about a thousand times more massive than others. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, so…
Indian Scientists In Antarctica Discover New Species
Biologists from the Central University of Punjab have discovered a new species of moss in Continental Antarctica. The species has…
A 16-Million-Year-Old Tree Tells A Deep Story Of The Passage Of Time
The sequoia tree slab is an invitation to begin thinking about a vast timescale that includes everything from fossils of…
Tamil Nadu College Student’s Electric Cycle Offers 50 Kms Ride In Just Rs 1.50
When the fuel prices are at an all-time high, a Madurai college student, Dhanush Kumar has designed a unique solar-powered…
Thoovanam Waterfalls In Kerala – A Hidden Attraction
A waterfall that reveals itself to only those willing to undertake a 4 km long trek through a verdant jungle…
Making Seawater Drinkable In Minutes
Newswise — According to the World Health Organization, about 785 million people around the world lack a clean source of…
Does The Universe Expand?
Newswise — Our universe is expanding, but our two main ways to measure how fast this expansion is happening have…
Collisions Between Neutron Star And Black Hole Discovered
On Jan. 5, 2020, astrophysicists heard a chirp from a distant part of the cosmos, some 900 million light-years away….
Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss Are A Single Problem
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Earth is in the throes of multiple environmental crises, with climate change and the loss of…
Radhika Fox Confirmed By US Senate To Lead Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water
The US Senate voted 55-43 to confirm Radhika Fox as head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water on…
Longest Day In The Northern Hemisphere
Summer’s officially here! Longest day in the Northern Hemisphere is June 21st. Technically, the summer solstice occurs when the sun…
Underwater Robot Offers New Insight Into Mid-Ocean “Twilight Zone”
Newswise — Woods Hole, MA — An innovative underwater robot known as Mesobot is providing researchers with deeper insight into…
Youth Demand Action on Nature, Following IUCN’s First-Ever Global Youth Summit
On the occasion of World Environment Day, 5 June 2021, IPS features and opinion editorials focusing on Environment and Youth….
Economic Toll Of Climate Crisis ‘Will Be Like Two Pandemics A Year’
The world’s biggest industrialized economies will shrink by twice as much as they did during the coronavirus pandemic if they…
India May Have Lost 3% Of Its GDP Due To Global Warming
Titled The Costs of Climate Change in India, the report states that India is already experiencing the consequences of 1…
Rising Global Temperatures ‘Inexorably Closer’ To Climate Tipping Point: UN
The WMO report predicts an increased chance of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, that Africa’s Sahel and Australia will…
40% Chance Earth To Be Hotter Than Paris Goal Soon
There’s a 40% chance that the world will get so hot in the next five years that it will temporarily…
Germany Is Becoming Ground Zero For The Challenges Of Deep Decarbonization
Global climate politics in 2021 is focused on generating more ambitious climate pledges from member countries of the Paris Agreement…
What Causes The Deep Earth’s Most Mysterious Earthquakes?
Newswise — Washington, DC– The cause of Earth’s deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a…
Elon Musk Says, Tesla Will Not Accept Bitcoin For Transactions
Tesla has suspended customers’ use of bitcoin to purchase its vehicles, Tesla’s billionaire CEO said last week, citing concerns about the…
Seema Govil Spreads Earth Day Messages Via PodCast
In my podcast, Fablife360 I have been trying to covers positive stories from celebrities and philanthropists,” says Seema Govil, founder…
NOAA’s Observed Warming Trend A Sign Of Global Climate Change
A new report released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that the United States is…
Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise from Antarctic Melting is Possible with Severe Global Warming
Newswise — The Antarctic ice sheet is much less likely to become unstable and cause dramatic sea-level rise in upcoming…
Global Climate Trend Since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 C Per Decade
Global Temperature Report: April 2021 (New Reference Base, 1991-2020) Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 C per decade…
Youth Demand Action on Nature, Following IUCN’s First-Ever Global Youth Summit
Following almost two weeks of talks on issues such as climate change, innovation, marine conservation and social justice, thousands of…
For Biden’s Climate Summit To Make Progress, There Is Need to Involve the World
The United States convened 40 heads of state in a virtual climate summit last week, with the goal of eliciting…
Modi Announces US-India Partnership To Fight Climate Change
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a global initiative in cooperation with the US to mobilize investments for the greening…
2020 Saw 1.2 Degrees Celsius Rise In Global Temperature
The global average temperature was about 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels despite the cooling effect of La Nina ocean-atmosphere…
MIT Scientists Study Spider Web Structure By Translating It Into Music
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned spider webs into music — creating an eerie soundtrack that could help…
Google Earth’s New Timelapse Feature Shows Chilling Effect Of Climate Change
Google Earth users can now see the striking effect of climate change over the past four decades. Google’s latest feature,…
John Kerry Pats India, Pushes For More Efforts To Cleaner Energy
India did not cause the climate crisis but it cannot be solved without that nation’s help, United States Climate Envoy…
A Healthy Indian Ocean Feeds, Protects, and Connects all South Asians
(IPS) – It is the oceans that engendered life. The lives of humans remain connected to the seas, making the…
Japan’s Famous Cherry Blossom Blooms Earlier Than Any Year Since First Records Began In 812 AD
Japan‘s famous cherry blossoms have reached their flowery peak in many places earlier this year than at any time since…
By The End Of The Century, Summer Weather Could Last Half A Year, Winter Could Vanish
Summer weather could grow to half a year in length by the end of this century if no mitigation efforts…
17% Of Food Production Wasted, UN Report Estimates
A new report from the United Nations estimates that 17% of food produced globally is wasted each year. Instead of…
Rajagopalan Vasudevan’s Invention Of “PlasticRoad” Makes Rides Smoother
On a road into New Delhi, countless cars a day speed over tones of plastic bags, bottle tops and discarded…