A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered over 900 never-seen-before microbes species in ice and snow samples gathered from Tibetan Plateau. The research paper published in Nature Biotechnology Journal states that the group of these new microbes has the potential
I often wonder about the towering Mount Everest, the planet’s highest mountain, how it came to be, and where it is heading to amid the climate crisis fiasco. Well, it came into existence after an upward thrust by tectonic action as the Indian-Australian Plate collided
During my ritualistic morning scroll through The New York Times, I found a piece of rather good news that made me smile. The news was that a polar bear subpopulation – a group of animals within the same species that are genetically and geographically different
The past week has been one of the most devastating events where a devastating fire ravaged the Jangi Chilgoza forest in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district. The fire stretched for several kilometres and devoured the chilgoza pine forest, which is an important conifer and a cash
Using the computer modeling system, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany have predicted the disappearance of the Siberian tundra by 2500. The reason for this is the obvious global warming that’s rapidly increasing the temperatures in the Arctic region. As a result, Siberian
The alarming global warming takes hold of the usually snow-capped Alps, which are now turning green. This massive impact of climate change is now visible from space. Researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel have mentioned the impact in the journal
The younger generation is worried that by the time they will be able to visit the Maldives, this spell-bounding country of 1,196 low-lying islands might go underwater. The Maldives is being swallowed by the sea and it has worried the nation for several reasons, one
It is no hidden fact that aviation carbon emissions are a big contributor to climate change as airplanes often burn greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels. Therefore, ZeroAvia has recently come up with a sustainable solution. The leading innovator in zero-emission aviation has now created the world’s
According to the Global Food Policy Report 2022, the extreme climate change and early heatwaves in India have drastically reduced the country’s agricultural productivity. Due to this, there are rippling effects mainly on India’s wheat harvest. It is because the temperature in certain north Indian
In the rain-dependent agricultural setup, many farmers in north Indian states are now facing a dry fodder shortage that’s led to the wheat crisis amid the unusually hotter spring. According to agricultural experts and farmers, increasingly changing climatic conditions are leading to a wheat crisis