'Mercury Bomb': A gift from climate change
What effects will the mercury bomb have on humans?
1w ago
124 years on, gender gap in Nobel Prize still persists
Clearly, the choice of who gets the Nobel Prize is heavily biased towards males.
1m ago
Is there a force called gravity?
Thanks to Einstein, we live in a universe of curved spaces and altered time.
3m ago
Are we coasting on the 'highway to climate hell'?
Earth could become an “uninhabitable hell” similar to Venus in just a few centuries, or even sooner.
4m ago
What will happen when the 'Doomsday Glacier' disintegrates?
As climate change drives global temperatures ever higher, glaciers and ice sheets will inevitably melt.
5m ago
Solar storm and aurora: A dazzling display of colourful lights
What causes an aurora? The root cause of an aurora is a solar storm, a dramatic blast of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun.
6m ago
Why is Bangladesh in the grip of a sizzling heatwave?
We should prepare ourselves for future heatwaves and help the most vulnerable people enduring the ongoing blistering heat.
7m ago
As I watched the tiny Moon devour the blazing Sun
This cosmic event delivered on the hype leading up to it with clockwork precision.
7m ago
July 15, 2022
What makes Webb’s first images such a big deal?
The tantalising images from the James Webb telescope have been widely published and discussed across the entire globe.
February 19, 2022
Conflict between economic development and environment
Advanced technology-based society emerged in the period following the industrial revolution in the mid-1700s. Several major factors distinguished this new form of society from the previous ones.
December 25, 2021
A new powerful ‘eye’ in the sky
Today, we are at the threshold of a great “astronomical revolution”—a revolution that will show the universe in a completely new light.
December 5, 2021
Can humans settle on Mars once Earth becomes uninhabitable?
In 1920, American poet Robert Frost mused: “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.” Frost held “with those who favour fire.”
September 16, 2021
Here comes the flood
With rapid industrialisation and increased technological complexity over the last two centuries, we seem to have lost touch with the magnitude of our effect on our surroundings.
August 17, 2021
IPCC issued a ‘code red’ alert, but is anyone listening?
As the world battles record-shattering heat waves, calamitous droughts, deadly floods and landscape-altering wildfires, a roughly 4,000-page report released on August 9, 2021 by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) spells out, in unequivocal terms, how anthropogenic climate change is ravaging our planet.
July 27, 2021
Thanks to climate change, nights are warming faster than days
In 1895, while studying past Ice Ages, Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius showed that if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were halved, temperatures could decrease by about five degrees Celsius.
July 18, 2021
Glimpse of the year 2050 in the summer of 2021
A leaked upcoming Assessment Report of the UN climate science advisory body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scheduled for release in February 2022,
June 5, 2021
Man, technology and the environment
The Homo sapiens, in their current evolved form, have been around on Earth for about 200,000 years. Many advances have taken place since then, with each advance seeming to have had a greater impact on our environment than the previous one.
May 7, 2021
Can Biden save our planet from overheating?
Every year, the Earth Day comes and goes while we continue to dig ourselves deeper and deeper toward climate and ecological disaster.
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