With Siberia seeing its warmest temperature on record this year and enormous chunks of ice caps in Greenland and Canada sliding into the sea, countries are acutely aware there’s no vaccine for global warming. In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning: …
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Tropical plants have driven exploration, started wars, transformed economies. Hear the stories in episode 2 of the new Scrolls & Leaves podcast. Faced with COVID-19, for which there are no specific treatments, people have scrambled to find herbal remedies to protect themselves. Plant-based medicine companies have spotted the opportunity. In June, Baba Ramdev, yoga guru …
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The world is experiencing a pandemic of unprecedented proportions and any assessment on biodiversity, climate change or environment is unlikely to hit the headlines. However, a recent report ‘Living Planet-2020’ by over 125 global experts from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) did receive some attention. The headline was a 68% fall in populations of monitored vertebrate …
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Climate change associated with global warming can have a significant impact on astronomical observations, a new study has found. These findings could not only help astronomers improvise their observations according to varying environmental settings, but also play a significant role while designing new telescopes, such as the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) that is being built …
The already parched West is getting drier and suffering deadly wildfires because of it, while the much wetter East keeps getting drenched in mega-rainfall events, some hurricane related and others not. The already parched West is getting drier and suffering deadly wildfires because of it, while the much wetter East keeps getting drenched in mega-rainfall …
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