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Social media both easy, challenging for tweens parents. (Photo: Pixabay)

Social media as battleground

Social media platforms have supercharged battles over scientific evidence on a range of issues.

20 April 2019 11:59 AM IST

Campaigners daubed graffiti and smashed a window at the Shell Centre building. (Photo: AFP)

Climate change protests in London lead to 300 arrests

The protests organised by the campaign group Extinction Rebellion, has become one of the world's fastest-growing...

17 April 2019 7:30 PM IST

A general view of Oxford Circus occupied by climate change protesters during a demonstration in London. (Photo:AP)

British police arrest 113 climate change activists in London

British police have arrested 113 people after climate change activists blocked some of London's most famous roads...

16 April 2019 3:24 PM IST

Climate change is not the only or even the main factor driving the increase in vector-borne diseases across the globe. (Photo: Representational/Pexels)

Climate change prompts vector-borne diseases

Mosquito-borne diseases set to flourish as climate gets warmer.

15 April 2019 1:11 PM IST

The Baishui glacier on the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in the southern province of Yunnan in China is one of the fastest melting glaciers in the world as it has lost 60 per cent of its mass since 1982. (Photo: AP)

Glaciers shrinking at alarming rates due to global warming

The world's glaciers are shrinking five times faster now than they were in the 1960s.

9 April 2019 10:47 AM IST

Asian and Caspian coastlines are the two areas in the world most affected by coastal erosion, according to a study published last year in the scientific journal Nature. (Photo: AFP)

Floating temple' adapts to climate change

Against the tide: Thai 'floating temple' defies coastal erosion.

8 April 2019 10:57 AM IST

I experienced firsthand how nothing has to stay the way it is, she said. (Photo:AP)

Harvard honours Angela Merkel with law degree

Merkel urged the fellow students to reject isolationism and nationalism, embrace the fight against climate change.

31 May 2019 9:15 AM IST

Tufted puffins breeding in the Bering Sea feed on small fish and marine invertebrates, which in turn eat ocean plankton. (Photo: AP)

Bering Sea puffins in danger due to climate change

Climate change killing off Bering Sea puffins, say scientists.

30 May 2019 11:06 AM IST

The government has started preparing to announce a drought in the state.

Australia restricts water use in populous state, as drought persists

New South Wales, home to about a third of Australia's 25 million people and its biggest city Sydney, last imposed...

28 May 2019 3:07 PM IST

The research team hopes further studies can be carried out to look in more detail at the longer-term effect of species becoming extinct on habitats and ecosystems. (Photo: ANI)

Small birds and mammals can thrive in a wide variety of habitats

Researchers forecast worldwide move towards smaller birds, mammals.

26 May 2019 12:16 PM IST

The NGO, Friendship, currently runs two floating hospitals and are in the process of building five more. These would all be handed over to the Bangladesh government in five years time. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Floating hospitals to the rescue in climate change hit Bangladesh

Bangladesh, a victim of climate change, is now relying on floating boats for rural healthcare.

24 May 2019 1:29 PM IST

Food waste collected in green bin programs wouldnt have to be transported long distances to enormous, centralised facilities. (Photo: Representational/Pexels)

Biodegradable chemical from waste food to produce electricity

Waste food can be used to produce biodegradable chemical.

24 May 2019 9:56 AM IST