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Major climate change-GDP study under review after facing challenge

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Major climate change-GDP study under review after facing challenge

A blockbuster study published in top science journal Nature last year warned that unchecked climate change could slash global GDP by a staggering 62 percent by century’s end, setting off alarm bells among financial institutions worldwide. But a re-analysis by Stanford University researchers in California, released Wednesday (August 6, 2025), challenges that conclusion — finding…

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Trump moves to shut down NASA missions that measure carbon dioxide and plant health

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Trump moves to shut down NASA missions that measure carbon dioxide and plant health

U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Trump administration is moving to shut down two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health, potentially shutting off an important source of data for scientists, policymakers and farmers. U.S. President Donald Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2026 includes no money…

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Germany moves to fast-track geothermal energy projects

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Germany moves to fast-track geothermal energy projects

A general view of a cogeneration plant in Schwerin, Germany. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Germany’s Cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) aimed at fast-tracking the rollout of geothermal energy projects, as part of its goal to eliminate fossil fuel-based heating by 2045. Interest in geothermal energy has surged since Russia’s…

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Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years

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Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years

The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. Also Read | Australia’s Great Barrier Reef off UNESCO danger list, still under ‘serious threat’ But due to increasing coral cover since 2017, the coral deaths — caused mainly…

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‘It’s like writing a poem’: prize winner Rajula Srivastava on doing maths

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‘It’s like writing a poem’: prize winner Rajula Srivastava on doing maths

When Rajula Srivastava was first notified about a prestigious prize, she was quick to dismiss it. All she got was a cryptic email from the personal email address of mathematician Terence Tao asking if she was free for a chat. Tao, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, is widely considered one of…

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Leaders hail work of visionary scientist M.S. Swaminathan

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Leaders hail work of visionary scientist M.S. Swaminathan

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, economist Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi and others during book launch of “The Man Who Fed India” by Priyambada Jayakumar, a book that offers a detailed work of M.S. Swaminathan, on the occasion of his birth centenary, at India International Centre in New…

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Fishing gear a major source of ‘microplastic’ contamination along Indian coasts

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Fishing gear a major source of ‘microplastic’ contamination along Indian coasts

The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), through the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), conducted field surveys along India’s coastline between 2022 and 2025 to assess microplastic and marine debris levels. Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The major sources of ‘microplastic’ pollution along India’s coasts are “riverine inputs” and abandoned, lost, and…

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Game-changer virus developed by Kerala Forest Research Institute can help save teak plantations

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Game-changer virus developed by Kerala Forest Research Institute can help save teak plantations

Teak defoliator larva (Hyblaea puera) killed using HpNPV | Photo Credit: special arrangement A revolutionary technology developed by the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) can transform the way teak plantations are protected from their most notorious pest – the teak defoliator moth (Hyblaea puera). The institute has successfully identified, mass-produced and patented a naturally occurring…

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Science for all: Most flowers usually pick one father and stick with him

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Science for all: Most flowers usually pick one father and stick with him

Representative image. | Photo Credit: Murali Kumar K./The Hindu Conflicts lurk inside every flower with multiple seeds. The embryos jostle for food, the maternal and paternal genomes bargain over control, and pollen grains compete to be fertilised. Scientists have therefore wondered whether natural selection encourages one-parent broods that keep such quarrels to a minimum and,…

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