No sign of cut in carbon emissions, 2022 set to touch record high
The current trend suggests that humanity would pump record-high carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, raising the temperature well above the 1.5-degree Celsius limit in just nine years
COP 27: Weighty presence of fossil fuel lobbyists raises alarm
Environmental activists and researchers feel that fossil fuel lobbyists being granted access to policymaking processes poses the threat of slowing down climate action
Low-Income countries bear brunt of climate change, lose trillions of dollars, says research paper
Brazil, Venezuela and Mali have been the worst-hit countries with their per capita GDP going down by 5% annually, research has shown
More equitable sharing of COVID-19 vaccines would have saved a million lives: study
It had been widely assumed that the disparity in vaccine distribution led to a loss of lives during the pandemic. But the new research has come out with an estimate of the global loss, which could be helpful in planning for future pandemics
Fossils from millions of years ago shed new light on how animals first grew skeletons
This fossil was discovered in eastern Yunnan province where the oxygen-limited situation or the anaerobic conditions did not favor the degradation of soft tissues
When evaporation and transpiration together worsen droughts
A process called ‘evapotranspiration’ increases during droughts, further increasing water unavailability in the soil. The process is also linked to flash droughts, which develop rapidly with water depleting severely within a few weeks
Bubonic plague left a mark on our genomes and it may have a link to disorders
A recently published paper in Nature suggests that marks of the bubonic plague can still be found in genes that are involved in the immune system
China launches space observatory to study solar events
The Advanced Space-Based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre situated in Inner Mongolia