A new class of metals could transform Africa's clean energy economy - scientists explain

India, Aug. 14 -- For centuries, useful metals have been developed by starting with one core element and adding small amounts of other elements. Steel, for example, is composed primarily of iron; carb... Read More

Daily weather tracker: Monsoon depression triggers heavy rain alert across Eastern and Northern India; clouds will also pour heavily over the mountains

India, Aug. 14 -- A depression over Jharkhand is triggering heavy to very heavy rainfall across eastern India, with conditions expected to weaken soon. Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal... Read More

Kerala wants to airlift wildlife out of conflict zones. Can moving animals 'solve' the problem?

India, Aug. 14 -- Kerala is looking at an increasingly dramatic response to an increasingly difficult problem: what to do with wild animals that repeatedly enter human settlements. The state, squeeze... Read More

Another tunnel accident in Uttarakhand: Seven workers dead; search continues for those trapped inside

India, Aug. 14 -- An instance of land subsidence triggered debris and water to flood the Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydroelectric Project tunnel in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, on August 13, trapping 22 workers. N... Read More

India on e-wheels: Assam and Tripura show why a bigger EV number is not always a deeper mobility transition

India, Aug. 14 -- Tripura and Assam posted India's highest EV adoption rates in 2025-26, at 17.8 per cent and 15.6 per cent of new vehicle registrations. Their EV lead is being driven largely by e-ri... Read More

As record El Nino peaks, world leaders meet in Mongolia to confront a drying planet

India, Aug. 14 -- Droughts in Africa and Asia, wildfires in Europe, and harvest failures for farmers across the world have intensified this year, even as the 2026-27 El Nino, forecast to be the strong... Read More

Myth and reality of 100-year flood: Kerala's recurring deluges expose how the comforting phrase masks a harsh, annual risk

India, Aug. 13 -- A 100-year flood does not mean a flood that occurs once every 100 years, but one with a 1 per cent chance of occurring in any given year. Kerala's 2018 flood was compared with the g... Read More

Global youth jobs in jeopardy as unemployment rises and middle-skilled work shrinks: ILO

India, Aug. 13 -- A new report by the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned that worldwide youth unemployment reduced after the COVID-19 pandemic but is now beginning to worsen again... Read More

Human brains grew fivefold in 4 million years, thanks to natural plant sugars

India, Aug. 13 -- Recent research from the University of Sydney and the University of Glasgow has found that fruit, honey, and other naturally sweet foods may have played a key role in human brain evo... Read More

Nairobi meetings 2026: CBD's crucial discussions end with heavily bracketed recommendations for COP17

India, Aug. 13 -- The 7th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 7) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) came to an end in Nairobi, Kenya on August 12. 2026. This meeting fol... Read More

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