'Science is evidence that current American diets are far from sustainable'

Laura MacCleery of regulatory affairs at Centre for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) decodes what the new dietary recommendations on …

‘The jackfruit will definitely become the most sought-after fruit in the coming years in India’

There is no one in the country who has written as extensively on jackfruit as Shree Padre.  A farm journalist, Padre has been reporting on …

Yak and reindeer herders meet on top of the world

Yak herders from Bhutan, Nepal, and China met with reindeer herders from Norway, Russia and found surprising commonalities in the challenges they …

Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate …

A giant of the scientific community who showed how to make sense of the universe

Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos?

Africa's Ecology: Sustaining the Biological and Environment Diversity of a Continent

Driven by exponential population growth and the effects of globalization, haphazard development across Africa threatens the continent's natural …

Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed ― and What It Means for Our Future

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change.

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard …

Are We Screwed?: How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change

A declaration of resistance, and a roadmap for radical change, from the generation that will be most screwed by climate change.

Climate change, the hidden hand

Anthony McMichael takes us on a tour across epochs, showing how collapse of civilisations has roots in climate change

Half of India's children are poor

It raises a question: will they ever be out of poverty?

Fighting over Anne Frank's legacy

The Diary of a Young Girl chronicling her life and times under Nazi fascism is still shackled by copyright laws

Trump dumps the Paris climate deal

Seeking a fair price for drugs

The WHO is working on finding a fair pricing model for medicines but will Big Pharma accept it?

Illegal and ignominious world of wildlife trafficking

Analysing the magnitude and international nature of illegal trade of Indian wildlife species

Sister Solar System and Earth's cousins

After discovering Earth-like planets in 2014 and 2015, the NASA took a step towards finding life outside our own solar system by discovering a …

Wannabe Noahs

Scientists are trying to bring back extinct animals from the dead, throwing open the Pandora's box

Scientific stutter

Do animals have a language, and hence a mind, of their own?

TPP has been trumped

Donald Trump's first priority is to withdraw the US from the Pacific Rim mega trade pact—and that's good news

In a Trump world, can Africa be great again?

Africa was a policy priority for previous three administrations—Clinton, Bush and Obama. But can US contribute to Africa’s growth …

Bet your brain

The market is flooded with brain boosters, even though there is little evidence to show for it

Dams proposed on five Chilean rivers scrapped

Chilean firm Endesa, which was to construct the dams, said it will work only on projects 'embraced by local communities'

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).…

Octopuses are super-smart ... but are they conscious?

The idea of non-human consciousness raises a host of philosophical questions