A Bill proposing radical changes to India’s forest law came closer to becoming legislation on July 26, when it was…
Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme downpours, it’s hard to ignore that something unusual is going on with the…
Owing to a crippling funding crisis, the United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to…
Rising population and demand for food, feed, fiber and fuel are increasing competition for land. For example, new WRI research projects that…
“As scientists, what worries us the most is the scale at which the glaciers are melting in the Himalayas,” said…
The past few days have shown just how unsafe women are in our country. Given below are some examples that…
The 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup is probably the most highly-anticipated women’s football tournament ever. Part of this hype and…
What do Taylor Swift, Jackie Chan, Adolf Hitler and several Nobel Peace laureates all have in common? Over the past…
A 28-year-old man in the United Arab Emirates has been diagnosed with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), according…
When the Earth Commission released its third paper on earth system boundaries in 2023, one element stood out as distinct…
To non-moguls, Elon Musk’s (perhaps temporary) rebrand of Twitter to “X” may seem high risk, amateurish, or even capricious. But…
The April heat wave in South and Southeast Asia this year was detrimental to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities, noted a…
In a shocking development, the Gyanvapi mosque management committee has apprehended that the historic structure may fall during the survey…
Israel’s parliament passed a law on July 24, 2023, that limits the Supreme Court’s ability to rein in government actions,…
On 26 July, 2023, the lower house of the Indian parliament, amidst protests, passed a Bill to amend the country’s…
Throughout the weekend, Indian-Americans and allied entities held protests in the US states of California, New Jersey and Massachusetts, to…
As temperatures rose in June this year, Jaman Singh Saini, a 69-year-old farmer from Badangarh village in Jhunjhunu district of…
When water levels rose in a tributary of the Koshi river during the 2019 monsoon, villagers of Launiya in Nepal’s…
As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures…
In recent years, Odanthurai, a village in Tamil Nadu, gained recognition as a self-reliant model village and has been appreciated…
The Kuno National Park (KNP) has become the centre of attention across the world ever since the world's maiden 'cheetah…
About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s…
Each July, comics fans, professionals and scholars descend on San Diego, California, for Comic-Con International – a celebration of the…
When parts of Delhi were inundated with floodwaters several meters high in early July, several reports said that the river…
In another shocking incident involving caste faultlines in Madhya Pradesh, a Dalit man in the Chhatarpur district of the state…
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