Swiss bans GM for five years

Down To Earth completes 15 years

50 years of dropping catches

It began 500 years ago

To end poverty, you have to know how it began—Diaz

25 million years of error

Scientists got the origin of flowering plants wrong

How India's temperature has been rising over the years

Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general, Centre for Science and Environment, analyses temperature data from 1901 to 2017 to understand the situation

We’re scared of 3rd COVID-19 wave: Migrant workers reflect on 2 years of turbulence

Two years on, ripples from the first COVID-19 wave continue to cast a shadow on lives of migrant workers

Cancer cases in India can double every 20 years: Study

Cases of cancers caused by infections are decreasing, while lifestyle and ageing cancers are increasing, found the study

Fossil footprints prove humans populated the Americas thousands of years earlier than we thought

Until now, scientists believed humans only travelled south into the Americas when this ice barrier began to melt, at the earliest, 16,500 years ago

Climate change: Crop yields in Punjab will fall by up to 13% in next 30 years

A study by Punjab Agricultural University used rainfall & temperature data from 35 years to project the impact of climate change on 5 major …

Ancient DNA helps reveal social changes in Africa 50,000 years ago that shaped the human story

Around 20,000 years ago, foragers in some African regions were almost exclusively finding their partners locally

Global life expectancy rebounds after COVID-19 dip, could go up by 5 years by 2050

Life expectancy projected to rise by 0.16 years per year 2022-2050 — notably lower than 0.27-year increase seen 1990-2019

Agri share in GDP hit 20% after 17 years: Economic Survey

Agriculture was the only sector to have clocked a positive growth at constant prices in 2020-21

20 years down the line what ails the urban local bodies

Lack of money, capacity and states' unwillingness to cede power

East Africa 77 years behind schedule for achieving universal access to sanitation

At current rate of progress, universal access to safely-managed sanitation, aim of the Sustainable Development Goals won’t be achieved …

Global population exposed to floods grew over 20% in 15 years: Study

The growth was concentrated in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

As told to Parliament (September 23, 2020): E-waste up 43% in 3 years

All that was discussed in the Houses through the day  

October 2021 was the third-warmest in 142 years

October 2021 was only 0.04°C cooler than October 2015 and 2019

Hunger meter: How India fared over the years

A lookthrough of five factors and how the country's performance has changed 

Can Namami Gange take off after two years of systemic failure?

In last three decades, the project achieved just one-third of the target due to lack of synergy between multiple authorities

Ebola more deadly for children under 4 years

Young children more at risk than adults as the mean incubation period, the average time from infection until the onset of symptoms, is shorter

A solar eclipse like this will not happen in 19 years

While a total eclipse was visible from the Faroe Islands and the Svalbard Islands, regions of Europe, northern Africa and northern Asia was …

266 years of changing climate

June 2016 was the second warmest June in satellite temperature records, according to a press release by the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH).…

Small Woodbrown butterfly rediscovered in Sikkim after 120 years

The species was first discovered in Sikkim in 1887

Ancient Venus was potentially habitable for three billion years: Study

The planet had stable temperatures — between a maximum of about 50°C and a minimum of about 20°C — and water worth a shallow ocean