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March 10, 2026, 02:31 PM - 6 min read
The poorer a country, nation or community, the greater the risk of exposure to extreme weather, food and water insecurity, disease and forced displacement. Yet people in the least developed countries have contributed almost nothing to global heating.
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March 5, 2026, 02:19 PM - 6 min read
The picture for 2026 is complicated. Although flooding can kill overwintering eggs and adults, a mild wet winter will have reduced slug mortality. It may also affect slug predators.
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January 28, 2026, 01:25 PM - 8 min read
The damage to Lebanon’s environment will have long-term consequences and repairing the damage would involve a multi-year reconstruction project costing an estimated US$11 to $14 billion. This destruction indicates a grave breach of international environmental law and raises the question of whether Israel committed war crimes in Lebanon by deliberately targeting natural resources and engaging in environmental warfare.
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January 22, 2026, 02:40 PM - 5 min read
Historically, it has been thought these volcanic arcs were the primary culprits of injecting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The new findings challenge that view. Instead, researchers suggest that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts have played a much more significant role in driving Earth’s carbon cycles throughout geological time.
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December 7, 2025, 03:03 PM - 7 min read
What controls the fate of the Antarctic ice sheet–and therefore the rate of sea-level rise–is how much ocean heat reaches the base of the floating ice shelves. But the processes that cause melting in ice-shelf cavities are very challenging to observe.
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December 4, 2025, 01:17 PM - 5 min read
For 250 million years, coral reefs have played a pivotal role in regulating Earth’s climate by influencing ocean alkalinity and carbon absorption.
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October 18, 2025, 01:25 PM - 3 min read
At the G20 Environment Ministers’ Meeting, India’s Environment Minister, Bhupender Yadav, underscored the importance of respecting each country’s contribution in the fight against climate change and understanding that their responsibilities differed based on current capacities
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October 3, 2025, 05:54 PM - 4 min read
Migratory species from elephants to snow trout face shrinking habitats as climate change drives them into ecological bottlenecks, warns a UN report urging urgent global conservation action.
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September 25, 2025, 03:41 PM - 6 min read
Stretching from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, the whole river basin supports over 650 million people, a quarter of India’s freshwater, and much of its food and economic value.
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September 23, 2025, 01:10 PM - 6 min read
Tracking species shifts is crucial for understanding how climate change is transforming our oceans.
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September 22, 2025, 02:10 PM - 7 min read
Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it cools and solidifies into volcanic ash particles and pumice rocks.
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September 12, 2025, 06:10 PM - 5 min read
Once a familiar ribbon across the heavens, the Milky Way has all but disappeared from Indian cities. With 80 per cent of the world already light-polluted, scientists warn that vanishing starlight is not only a cultural loss but an ecological and medical crisis demanding urgent intervention.
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