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By Bobby Bascomb Scientists have identified nine planetary boundaries that help regulate a livable planet. Human activities have pushed six of those nine critical Earth systems beyond safe limits, ...
Udhagamandalam: The Nilgiris Documentation Centre (NDC) has sought the intervention of the regional head of Unesco, New Delhi ...
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed gases like methane, carbon dioxide, and most notably, dimethyl sulfide (DMS), a molecule on Earth only produced by life. A follow-up study ...
What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...
If you’ve ever dug your hands into fresh earth and felt its cool, crumbly texture, you might have noticed the subtle, earthy ...
Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...
Humans and wildlife surviving in the most extreme environments on Earth. The BBC has been alerted to some editorial breaches in the Human Planet series from 2011 and has decided to withdraw Human ...
Is it possible to build a Dyson sphere that isn't catastrophically unstable? New research says yes, but only in one type of ...