On Earth Day 2024, India should seriously consider fortifying its health system against climate-induced challenges

The escalating impact of climate change on public health and India’s diverse and vulnerable population magnifies the stakes for urgent action

Simply Put: Earth Day 2024

Earth’s early evolution: Fresh insights from rocks formed 3.5 billion years ago

Singhbhum Craton’s unique geological features, including its greenstone belts, provide invaluable information about Earth’s surface …

Our actions, a product of probability & determinism, can effect change

Humans retain the potential to influence their fate, particularly in the near future

Six of 9 planetary boundaries have been breached because of human activities: Study

The study results show that humans have caused a breach in our planet’s safe climate and land system in 1988 and are now facing a risk of …

No more sweet sixteen

Earth is 30 million years older than originally estimated by researchers

Pluto: ‘Recent’ volcanism raises puzzle — how can such a cold body power eruptions?

What extra details are lurking in the poorly imaged half of Pluto? 

Simply Put: Earth Day reminder

Like ours

Astronomers discover an Earth-like planetary system

World lost 68% vertebrates in 1970-2016: WWF

Freshwater wildlife down 84%; Latin America, the Caribbean particularly hit

Nairobi INC-3: A job half-done?

Intergovernmental meet to devise a global instrument to end plastic pollution results in a draft for more discussions 

Solar Blast

A scrapbook of wonder

Caspar Henderson inspires us to broaden the horizons of our sense of wonder

Carl Sagan detected life on Earth 30 years ago — here’s how his experiment is helping us search for alien species today

A strong case for life elsewhere will likely require a combination of mutually supporting evidence

NASA's Maven reaches Mars

The spacecraft will study the planet’s atmosphere for the next 10 months

Red Planet's river saga

The afterglow of an explosive collision between giant planets may have been detected in a far-off star system

If confirmed, the observation will open a window into how planets form

Living Planet Report 2022: Wildlife populations decline by 69% in 50 years

Annual report links climate change and biodiversity loss for 1st time

Mars’ secrets revealed

Venus’ volcanoes may be active, show decades-old radar images

NASA Magellan spacecraft captured images of Venus from 1990-1992

Mars’ secrets revealed

Mars Mission: ISRO eyes November 2013 launch

Cabinet yet to approve the mission

Will disability rights bill get passed by Parliament this session?

Activists divided over provisions of the bill

India’s SO2 emissions up by 71 per cent in 5 years, shows US study

'CPCB underestimating pollution from coal-fired thermal power plants'

What caused Mars to dry out? A new study provides clues

Report debunks theory that loss of atmospheric carbon dioxide is responsible