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A day to pause and come down to earth

World Soil Day is a reminder of the need to look after a life-sustaining and silent resource — soil  …

16 hours ago

About 7,000 years ago, the Sahara desert was green, and now we know who lived there

  About 7,000 years ago, two women were laid to rest in a rocky shelter in today’s southwestern Libya. Their…

21 hours ago

Forest Fires and the Eroding Carbon Balance in the Himalayas

Surging fire incidences and fragile monoculture forests reveal why headline increases in Himalayan tree cover mask a deeper carbon-stability crisis…

3 days ago

7 mind-blowing dinosaur finds that forced scientists to rethink evolution

One “mummy” fossil preserved skin and its last meal.   Two dinosaurs at dawnWikimedia Commons Over the past decade, paleontology…

4 days ago

Recycling Can’t Solve Our Plastic Crisis

     Judith Enck is a former EPA regional administrator and the author of the new book, "The Problem With…

4 days ago

What India must learn from China about cleaning its air

Decisive action and coordinated national solutions needed to deal with health emergency.     A speedboat is pictured in the…

5 days ago

The Ganges River is drying faster than ever — Here’s what it means for the region and the world

  The Ganges flows through ancient Varanasi, India. Yavuz Sariyildiz/Shutterstock The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South…

5 days ago

Scientists Uncover New Biological Law, Cracking an 80-Year Mystery

    A new study reveals that cells hit a series of internal bottlenecks as nutrients rise, causing growth to…

6 days ago

Antarctica’s Southern Ocean might be gearing up for a thermal ‘burp’ that could last a century

  When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could…

6 days ago

Why telling stories from the Himalaya is ‘an argument against extinction’

  Stephen Alter, who recently won the Himalayan Echoes Nature Prize, has often put the young, fold mountains at the…

1 week ago

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