Count carbon the cheap way

A handy instrument to measure soot level in the air

Ant’s invasion plan decoded

The fire ant first went to the US, then conquered the world

Oiled water?

Copyright legacy of the great

Mahatma Gandhi’s works have been available freely thanks to his copyright philosophy, but not those of Martin Luther King Jr

US is finally trying to rein in drug giants

Biden government’s push to get Big Pharma to reduce the astronomical rates of prescription medicines is significant

Biden wins – experts on what it means for race relations, US foreign policy and the Supreme Court

Three scholars discuss what a Biden presidency may have in store in three key areas: race, the Supreme Court and foreign policy

‘The Persian Gulf is a sensitive issue in Iran’

Amir Masoud Aghababaeian is an Iranian film-maker, originally from Isfahan and based in Tehran. He is the director of ‘Mermaid’, a …

Civil society calls on govts to reject WTO e-commerce talks

Some WTO members announce new talks, which were rejected by the membership at the last Ministerial, at the WEF

Beluga whale spotted in September, still in the Thames

The marine mammal is spending its time in Gravesend, near the river mouth  

India has 2nd-highest number of diabetes diagnostic centres globally, new study finds

Currently, 537 million adults globally are living with diabetes, with three in four of them living in low- and middle-income countries

Like ‘the tolling of a distant temple bell’, Ibuse Masuji’s Black Rain remembers the horrors of Hiroshima

Black Rain records the scorching memories of the hibakusha — atomic bomb survivors — of the bombing and its aftermath

What is ‘heat dome’, the phenomenon causing record temperatures across US?

‘Heat domes’ have also been associated with unusually warm periods in India, Bangladesh, China and some other Asian countries

Here is all you need to know about debt-for-climate swaps

Offering debt relief in lieu of climate action could allow rich countries to pay for their acts of historical injustice, while helping the poor …

UN 2023 Water Conference ends with over 700 commitments to make world water-secure

The event was attended by 10,000 participants at the UN headquarter and online, a statment claimed

UN 2023 Water Conference: Humanity draining its own lifeblood through ‘vampiric overconsumption’, says Guterres

Humans have broken the water cycle, destroyed ecosystems and contaminated groundwater, Antonio Guterres noted

Pharma’s dirty deals to stall generics

As generic companies, including Indian firms, collude with innovator pharma giants in pay-for-delay pacts, consumers pay a high price

Bird flu: UK is seeing its largest ever outbreak – which may prove particularly deadly for wild birds

While measures to control avian flu help mitigate risks to poultry and people, they do little to help wild birds

Planetary summer: Why Europe may have reached a point of no return on prolonged droughts, heatwaves

Droughts are becoming a new reality for Europe, latest scientific projections suggest 

Inflation Reduction Act: Experts cautious as US Senate passes landmark climate investment bill

Bill still does not go far enough to meet the scale of climate emergency; the nature of investment is not known at the moment, they say

World is not doing enough to end hunger by 2030: UN

Food inflation on unprecedented rise triggered by COVID-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war  

Intellectual Property: Why is India silent, as a compromise deal on COVID-19 therapies is worked out

The fact is, Indian and South African interests have diverged; India is not in desperate need of vaccines anymore and hence does not want to …

86 European, US children down with severe hepatitis; experts perplexed

Some have cited COVID-19 as a reason; some two years of it, while the rest have blamed the adenovirus

New WHO report highlights collaborative action to reduce antimicrobial resistance

Strategic framework designed by the four organisations to advance a One Health response to AMR  

Russia-Ukraine war to have ‘ripple effects’ on India’s fuel prices: Experts

India should take this as a market signal and channel investments into electric vehicles and green hydrogen, which are substitutes for oil and gas,…

Cover, quality of severe depression treatment low globally: Study

Nearly 75 per cent of those diagnosed with MDD across the globe live in low and lower-middle income countries