Nature & Environment

She survived meteors and millennia, but not human greed. The extinction of the northern white rhino isn’t just a tragedy, it’s a warning. It survived for 55 million years. Before humans built cities or carved borders on maps, before the...

A catastrophic plane crash near Ahmedabad, India, has claimed the lives of more than 200 people after an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed shortly after takeoff on June 12, 2025. The flight, AI171, was...

Two hundred years ago, in a sleepy English town, a steam locomotive chugged out of Darlington, hauling ticket-holding dreamers on a 26-mile jaunt to Stockton. It was 1825, and the world’s first public passenger train didn’t just move people—it moved...

Scientists call them tipping points—those moments when Earth’s big systems, like ice sheets or ocean currents, hit a breaking point and shift into a new state. Studies show that once these switches flip, there’s no easy way back. Glaciers melt...

With over 1.3 billion industry workers worldwide, the cultural and economic significance of livestock farming cannot be overemphasized. Yet land deficits, market uncertainties, and regulation risks destabilize farmers, ranchers, and rural communities. Increasingly, a "just transition" is called for against...

As summer rolls in with its golden warmth and backyard barbecues, there’s an uninvited guest buzzing at the edges of our joy mosquitoes. These tiny tyrants, with their whining wings and itchy bites, aren’t just a backyard nuisance; they’re a...

The Smell That Draws Them In Mosquitoes aren’t just annoying; they’re tiny vampires with a knack for picking their victims. A 2022 study from Rockefeller University, published in Cell (https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01307-1), digs into why some people are mosquito magnets. It’s all...

Space, the final frontier, is no longer just a playground for dreamers and astronauts it’s a battlefield where humanity’s fragile legacy is at risk. The relics of our first steps beyond Earth, from footprints on the Moon to orbiting satellites,...

What if the world’s biggest carbon emitter started to lead the charge on how to fight climate change? It sounds far-fetched, but that is precisely what is happening. For the first time in history, China’s carbon emissions are declining—not because...

Think about the last time you threw away a plastic bottle. You probably hoped it would be recycled, didn't you? The truth is that it probably wasn't. All the bins, slogans, and good intentions aside, barely 9.5% of the plastic...

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and felt as if the universe was  softly  whispering a message in your ear? On May 12, 2025, you might. That's when the Flower Moon, the May full moon, will be visible in all its soft glory, lighting up the sky and...

Imagine a monster in distant space, unseen but massively large, traveling in every direction and devouring those stars that wander out of place. Far from being fiction, it is a real discovery by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope. The million-sun-mass supermassive...

The deep sea—the part of the ocean below 200 meters—covers nearly 66% of Earth's surface but is one of humanity's greatest unknowns. A report published in Science Advances on May 7, 2025, contained within its pages a shocking revelation: 99.999%...

–With a feat harking back to ancient alchemist fantasies, physicists in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have succeeded in transforming lead into gold. Using the sophisticated ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) detector, researchers measured the production of some 86...

New research by Brown University's Dr. Colleen Dalton and colleagues in the Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems journal outlined how tectonic activity, a reduction in seafloor spreading, had been resulting in a rapid sea level drop millions of years ago. It is...