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  • Frozen surface burning core: Scientists discover 207 hidden volcanoes beneath Antarctica

    Frozen surface burning core: Scientists discover 207 hidden volcanoes beneath Antarctica

    Beneath Antarctica’s frozen silence, scientists have mapped hundreds of hidden volcanoes, revealing unseen forces that quietly shape ice movement, sea levels, and the continent’s uncertain future.

  • Watch a camera dive into Antarctica’s most dangerous 'doomsday glacier' ice hole

    Watch a camera dive into Antarctica’s most dangerous 'doomsday glacier' ice hole

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  • Can licking a toad really get you high or is the myth far more dangerous than the drug?

    Can licking a toad really get you high or is the myth far more dangerous than the drug?

    A viral park warning revived myths about psychedelic toads, but scientists say licking them brings danger, conservation risks, and medical emergencies, while researchers quietly study the drug’s strange potential.

  • The mystery of Saraswati: Does this Indian river vanish or flow as the Ghaggar-Hakra beneath the Earth

    The mystery of Saraswati: Does this Indian river vanish or flow as the Ghaggar-Hakra beneath the Earth

    Across India’s deserts, scientists trace a vanished river linked to Saraswati, where satellite clues, buried channels, and ancient settlements raise fresh questions about climate change, civilisation collapse, and myth history.

  • Ghosts of the mountains appear as snow leopard family emerges in the Himalayas

    Ghosts of the mountains appear as snow leopard family emerges in the Himalayas

    A rare video from Ladakh shows a snow leopard mother and two cubs roaming calmly near border roads, hinting at healthy habitats amid rising development pressures in fragile Himalayan landscapes.

  • India Budget 2026: ₹20,000 Cr allocated for carbon capture incentives to cut industrial emissions

    India Budget 2026: ₹20,000 Cr allocated for carbon capture incentives to cut industrial emissions

    India’s Budget 2026 places a ₹20,000 crore bet on carbon capture technologies, signalling a quiet shift in how heavy industries may cut emissions while reshaping future climate and industrial strategies.

  • An invisible Wallace Line splits Asia and Australia, explaining why tigers never met koalas

    An invisible Wallace Line splits Asia and Australia, explaining why tigers never met koalas

    Scientists reveal how continental collisions and climate shifts drew the mysterious Wallace Line, shaping Asian and Australian wildlife divides, and why understanding this boundary matters as Earth’s climate changes again.

  • What the "Doomsday Clock" really means? Here's why scientists are so alarmed about this

    What the "Doomsday Clock" really means? Here's why scientists are so alarmed about this

    The Doomsday Clock has moved to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest ever in its history. Scientists warn rising nuclear tensions, climate change, AI risks and political instability could push humanity toward catastrophic outcomes.

  • India-EU FTA offers no relief from EU’s carbon border tax as CBAM stays

    India-EU FTA offers no relief from EU’s carbon border tax as CBAM stays

    Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said the EU, however, has committed that any flexibility it introduces under CBAM for any partner country globally will automatically flow to India.

  • Shrinking lakes and drying climate are splitting East Africa faster

    Shrinking lakes and drying climate are splitting East Africa faster

    As East Africa’s great lakes shrink after thousands of years, scientists find the land beneath may be pulling apart faster, revealing an unexpected link between ancient climate shifts and modern tectonic change.

  • This desert blooms overnight and turns into a sea of colours, where does it exist?

    This desert blooms overnight and turns into a sea of colours, where does it exist?

    Rare monsoon rains have briefly turned Rajasthan’s Thar Desert green, awakening dormant seeds and wildlife, offering a striking glimpse into how one of India’s driest landscapes can suddenly burst with life.

  • India’s climate report card signals structural policy challenges

    India’s climate report card signals structural policy challenges

    India's dramatic plunge in the 2026 global Climate Performance Index suggests a worrying structural reversal from its vantage position on climate action

  • UN warns world has entered era of ‘global water bankruptcy’: Why old labels like 'water stress' and 'water crisis' no longer apply

    UN warns world has entered era of ‘global water bankruptcy’: Why old labels like 'water stress' and 'water crisis' no longer apply

    Water systems are being depleted faster than nature can replenish them, and many can no longer return to their historical state. The UN now calls this condition global water bankruptcy.

  • The World’s only floating wildlife national park is in India, know its story and where it is located

    The World’s only floating wildlife national park is in India, know its story and where it is located

    Built on drifting vegetation, this protected landscape survives without solid ground, sheltering endangered wildlife while depending on delicate water balance, human restraint, and changing climate forces shaping its uncertain future.

  • Living in clouds: Meet the bird that eats, sleeps and lives almost entirely in the sky for 10 months

    Living in clouds: Meet the bird that eats, sleeps and lives almost entirely in the sky for 10 months

    A remarkable bird spends up to 10 months airborne, eating, sleeping, and even resting mid-flight, pushing biological limits and raising new questions about how life can thrive almost entirely in the sky.

  • What Lies Below Antarctica’s ice sheet? A new map exposes a dramatic landscape long hidden from human view

    What Lies Below Antarctica’s ice sheet? A new map exposes a dramatic landscape long hidden from human view

    Scientists have uncovered Antarctica’s hidden landscape beneath ice, revealing thousands of unseen hills and valleys, a discovery reshaping how researchers predict ice movement, melting, and future sea level rise.

  • OPINION | The conflict between the carbon offset mechanism and green credit programme

    OPINION | The conflict between the carbon offset mechanism and green credit programme

    Overlapping registration of forestry projects under India’s carbon and green credit schemes enables double-counting of environmental benefits, threatening market integrity, credibility, and investor trust in the country’s emerging climate frameworks

  • US exits India-backed International Solar Alliance; govt says body remains focused on mandate

    US exits India-backed International Solar Alliance; govt says body remains focused on mandate

    The United States joined the India-led International Solar Alliance as its 101st member in November 2021, with the announcement made by then US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry at the COP26 climate summit.

  • Nasa astronaut captures eerie purple lightning buzzing across Earth from space; watch video

    Nasa astronaut captures eerie purple lightning buzzing across Earth from space; watch video

    From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive storms, revealing a hidden electrical world few ever witness from Earth.

  • How quiet cracking is pushing Antarctica’s doomsday glacier towards collapse

    How quiet cracking is pushing Antarctica’s doomsday glacier towards collapse

    Scientists tracking Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier found its ice shelf weakening followed an ordered pattern, driven by hidden cracks and a failing seabed anchor, raising questions about future sea level rise.

  • Govt looks to bring nuclear power into clean-energy framework after SHANTI Bill

    Govt looks to bring nuclear power into clean-energy framework after SHANTI Bill

    Government weighs changes to power purchase rules and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) norms to mainstream nuclear as clean energy.

  • Dinosaur highways, first fires and planet parades: Science’s biggest moments of 2025

    Dinosaur highways, first fires and planet parades: Science’s biggest moments of 2025

    From ancient fire-making and dinosaur footprints to planet parades and chimp medicine, 2025 science revealed wonder, surprise and warning, hinting at how much remains unseen, buried, or still unfolding.

  • Climate action: Why India must shift from targets to outcomes

    Climate action: Why India must shift from targets to outcomes

    Grid bottlenecks, coal dependence, and funding gaps show why India’s climate fight now hinges on delivery

  • From 24 hours to 25-hour days? Earth’s rotation is slowing and here’s what it means for future time

    From 24 hours to 25-hour days? Earth’s rotation is slowing and here’s what it means for future time

    Earth’s rotation is slowly slowing, scientists say, meaning days are getting longer, though the change takes millions of years, raising intriguing questions about how time, life and the planet quietly evolve.

  • Human expansion is making encounters with one of India’s deadliest snakes more frequent— Here’s how

    Human expansion is making encounters with one of India’s deadliest snakes more frequent— Here’s how

    From village rooftops to forest releases, rescuers in India’s Western Ghats race to safely handle king cobras, revealing how growing human presence is reshaping encounters with one of nature’s most powerful snakes.

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