Climate Change

India’s delayed climate plan sets weak new emissions goal

The new goal to reduce emissions intensity is calculated against a baseline year of 2005, and makes only an incremental advance on the nation’s prior commitments

OPINION | The Silent Inflation Driver: How extreme weather is transforming India’s food economy

Extreme weather is raising food inflation in India. It disrupts farming and supply chains. At the same time, it is pushing investment in better storage, technology, and stronger systems

Days are getting longer: Climate change is slowing Earth’s spin at an unprecedented rate in 3.6 million years

Melting ice is not just raising sea levels, scientists say it is slowing Earth’s spin and making days longer, but how this tiny shift could disrupt modern technology is surprising.

Tehran’s air is cleaner than Delhi’s despite bombs, burning oil and war in Iran — why is that so?

Despite war and burning oil facilities, Tehran’s air is currently cleaner than New Delhi’s. Why is India’s capital still choking on smog? The surprising reasons reveal a deeper pollution crisis.

Stretching over 40 miles and billions strong: Meet the terrifying power of Earth’s most destructive swarms

Desert locust swarms can stretch 40 miles wide and contain billions of insects. When they descend on farmland, crops vanish within hours. But what triggers these enormous swarms in the first place?

Meet the river older than the dinosaurs: This ancient water body has existed on Earth for 400 million years

A river in Australia may have been flowing for 300 to 400 million years, long before dinosaurs existed. How did the ancient Finke River survive dramatic geological changes for so long?

Meet Hikmet Kaya: The Turkish forester who planted 30 million trees and turned 25,000 acres of barren hills into a forest

A once barren landscape in Turkey has become a vast forest after decades of effort. Hikmet Kaya helped plant 30 million trees there. How did this quiet mission transform thousands of acres?

Massive Endangered blue whales spotted near Massachusetts coast, surprising scientists and sparking new concerns

Rare sightings of massive Blue whale near the Massachusetts coast have surprised scientists. Researchers suspect shifting ocean conditions may be changing whale migration routes, raising new questions about the future of these ocean giants.

A 650-foot mega-tsunami shook the Arctic — Satellites captured waves that made the Earth tremble for 9 days

A mysterious seismic pulse shook Earth for 9 days in 2023, traced to a colossal Greenland landslide and 650-foot mega tsunami. How did one fjord send vibrations across the planet?

It’s soon going to rain in Antarctica, bringing melting glaciers, struggling penguins and shifting seas

Rain is no longer rare on the Antarctic Peninsula, and scientists warn that rising temperatures, melting ice and struggling penguins could signal a dramatic shift for Earth’s coldest continent.

Why climate change is quietly pushing up your home insurance bill

Insurance companies are no longer planning for rare disasters. They are planning for damage that shows up again and again.

Scientists discover 300 hidden canyons beneath Antarctica – And they could accelerate ice melt

Scientists have mapped over 300 hidden submarine canyons beneath Antarctica, revealing ocean pathways that may speed up ice melt and alter climate forecasts. This research could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.

Scientists map best- and worst-Case futures for a rapidly warming Antarctica

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s possible climate futures, revealing how rising emissions could shrink sea ice, threaten penguins and raise sea levels — yet they say the worst may still be avoided.

UN warns Earth has entered ‘water bankruptcy’ as rivers and aquifers run dry

A new UN report warns the world is spending its water “savings” faster than nature can replace them, raising fears of shortages, unrest and collapsing rivers unless urgent action follows.

The Southern Indian Ocean is rapidly losing salt, scientists warn of global ripple effects

A huge stretch of the Southern Indian Ocean is rapidly losing its salt, and scientists warn this subtle shift could quietly disrupt global ocean currents and marine life in unexpected ways.

Nature is losing its colours: From animals to birds, the World is becoming colourless, why are scientists worried?

From bleaching coral reefs to fading forests and duller birds, scientists warn Earth is losing its colours under climate stress, but could these subtle shifts reveal deeper environmental truths?

The world’s biggest waterfall is invisible to the human eye but why and how?

Beneath the icy waters between Greenland and Iceland flows Earth’s largest waterfall, three times taller than Angel Falls — yet completely invisible from the surface. How can something so vast remain hidden?

Inside the Dragon Hole of the South China sea, where oxygen vanishes from the ocean

Beneath the calm waters of the South China Sea, the Dragon Hole plunges over 301 metres, hiding twisting tunnels, vanishing oxygen and chemical secrets that scientists are only beginning to decode.

OPINION | India's climate strategy hides in plain sight

Adaptation finance in the country is not merely about carbon markets and tech transfer. It’s about community level changes to make agriculture more resilient and institutional improvements to insulate cities from extreme weather patterns 

Meet the 3-foot-tall ‘monkey-eating’ bird: The World’s largest Eagle on the verge of extinction

Standing 3 feet tall with a wingspan over 6 feet, the Philippine eagle rules the rainforest skies. But why is this powerful ‘monkey-eating’ giant now critically endangered?

Called crazy, now the ‘Forest Man of India’: Meet Jadav Payeng, who turned hot sand into a forest larger than New York’s Central Park

Once mocked as crazy, Jadav Payeng quietly planted trees for decades on a barren sandbar in Assam. Today, his lone effort has grown into a forest larger than Central Park.

China’s tree-planting drive turns the harsh Taklamakan desert from a biological void into a carbon sink

China’s vast tree-planting drive around the Taklamakan Desert may be turning shifting sands into a carbon sink. But can forests truly tame one of Earth’s harshest landscapes?

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

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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.