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2025 is ‘year of blooming octopus’ in England: Behind rising numbers of world’s most intelligent invertebrates

December 23, 2025 12:15 pm

Octopuses possess great problem-solving skills (such as opening jars and untying knots), and are champions of camouflaging. However, their growing numbers could impact the marine ecosystem.

Crown under threat: How unseasonal rainfall is affecting India’s mangoes, the king of fruits

December 17, 2025 3:43 pm

Mangoes are a crucial part of India’s agricultural economy, as the country is the largest producer of the fruit in the world. However, the country's mango productivity has remained stagnant between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024

3 factors that made Cyclones Ditwah & Senyar so deadly

December 14, 2025 12:48 pm

A new study has said that although the affected countries experience annual floods during the monsoon season, this year, the proportions of the flood reached unprecedented levels.

Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source: Why does it matter?

November 30, 2025 1:42 pm

The development means that the world’s three major rainforest regions — South American Amazon, Southeast Asia, and Africa — are now adding carbon into the atmosphere, exacerbating global warming

Hayli Gubbi volcano, volcanic eruption in Ethiopia

Hayli Gubbi volcanic eruption in Ethiopia: Everything you need to know

November 25, 2025 12:12 pm

Ethiopia volcano eruption, Hayli gubbi eruption: The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northeastern Ethiopia erupted on Sunday, by all accounts for the first time in about 12,000 years. There was no lava or magma flow, but large amounts of gas and plume were ejected in an explosive eruption

Why Vadodara was colder than Naliya in the Thar desert: Local conditions, wind pattern, clouds

November 11, 2025 8:35 pm

Vadodara recorded 14 degrees C on November 8 and Naliya in Thar desert area, usually the coldest place in Gujarat, 15.4 degrees C

New fund to protect world’s tropical forests: What is the TFFF, and what are the concerns about it?

November 11, 2025 12:41 am

Speaking at the fund’s launch event on November 6, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva described the TFFF as 'an unprecedented initiative'. He also said that 'for the first time, Global South countries will have protagonism in the forest agenda'

Wildfire at Lick Creek, Umatilla National Forest, Oregon, United States, 2021. (Wikimedia Commons)

‘Climate change is driven by human need and human greed’: Yale historian Sunil Amrith on his book and all things climate change

November 07, 2025 6:59 pm

Environmental historian Sunil Amrith spoke to Kaushik Das Gupta about his book The Burning Earth, climate change, and why technological fixes are inadequate in the face of the crisis

Wettest November in six years in Mumbai: What led to the unseasonal showers

November 03, 2025 3:06 pm

The wet start to the month is indicative of more showers on the cards for the region. While no warnings have been sounded, the IMD — in its forecast bulletin — has indicated that light to moderate showers will continue in Mumbai as well as Thane, Palghar and Raigad until at least November 6

In this photo shared by Indian Institute of Technology, a plane takes off from Kanpur for New Delhi for a cloud seeding trial.

Delhi air pollution: Why cloud seeding in winter has a specially low chance of success, according to science

November 03, 2025 8:04 pm

We must thank nature that the Delhi drizzle, if it indeed resulted from seeding, did not coincide with cooler temperatures. Substantial rainfall is required to wash out particulates; light drizzles under cooler conditions often do the opposite.