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Gross trust deficit

India, Sept. 15 -- A new Earth4All-Ipsos survey across the G20 finds a deep collapse of trust in governments, driven by lived experiences of inequality and a belief that systems are rigged for the ric... Read More


China is exploring humanoid robots for war - but what role could they play?

India, Sept. 15 -- At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra ran the 100-metre sprint in a staggering 8.64 seconds, shattering Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's ... Read More


Cyber attacks? Bioterrorism? To 'Pace the Frontier' of AI effectively, we must improve our anticipatory thinking

India, Sept. 15 -- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that rapidly advancing AI could be misused for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, citing incidents where autonomous agents breached systems and coordina... Read More


Daily weather tracker: Monsoon retreat begins, but rain, thunderstorms and strong winds continue across India

India, Sept. 15 -- Summary Monsoon retreat begins from northwest India, but heavy rain and thunderstorms continue across several states, keeping weather conditions unsettled. Low-pressure systems ov... Read More


The Sunita Narain Show: What is India's unfinished tiger agenda?

India, Sept. 13 -- Twenty years ago, the tiger population in India was gravely threatened. The last tiger had disappeared from the Sariska National Park. The pug marks of tigers were being counted and... Read More


BRICS Summit foregrounds clean tech cooperation, value addition: CSE

India, Sept. 13 -- The 18th BRICS Summit, underway in New Delhi, has issued a Declaration which covers a wide range of climate issues - from clean technology to forests - and reaffirms the group's com... Read More


Almost half of migratory bird species now in decline: State of the World's Birds

India, Sept. 13 -- Nearly half of the world's migratory bird species are in decline and one in nine faces extinction, according to BirdLife International's latest State of the World's Birds report. T... Read More


Daily weather tracker: Mercury crosses 40degC in Bikaner; very heavy rain alert in three states, heavy showers likely across 16 states

India, Sept. 12 -- Summary Very heavy rain alert: Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Vidarbha may receive very heavy rainfall, raising concerns over waterlogging and localised flooding. Delhi-NCR rain fore... Read More


'Hopeful genres like solarpunk can help bring climate discussions to dinner tables'

India, Sept. 12 -- Some Indigenous communities such as the Maori of the Aotearoa New Zealand understand time as a non-linear concept and navigate their relationship with the non-human environment acco... Read More


The harvest before the harvest

India, Sept. 12 -- In Rayalaseema's dry fields, farmers are reimagining harvests by valuing bees, spiders, fungi and soil life as much as vegetables. Through flower borders, ponds, trees, ground cove... Read More