As the world grapples with plummeting levels of biodiversity, Colombia is hosting two weeks of meetings for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference

Governments have missed deadlines on biodiversity action plans and funding for conservation is billions of dollars away from meeting a 2025 goal

The air quality is predicted to be in the ‘very poor’ category for the next six days, according to the Central government’s Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi

Two years earlier, countries adopted the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement with a list of 23 goals to help halt nature loss by 2030.

Bird calls and gibbon duets are not uncommon in Guwahati, but the mounting challenges of urbanisation are taking a toll on the region’s biodiversity

The UN body is facing budget shortfall of at least €57 million, threatening its ability to conduct climate negotiations and implement agreements

Doctors in Delhi are advising residents to wear N95 masks, get vaccinated and opt for work-from-home if possible, if they can’t leave the city, as the national capital battles deteriorating air quality

The globally averaged surface concentration of carbon dioxide reached 420 parts per million (ppm), methane 1934 parts per billion and nitrous oxide 336.9 parts per billion (ppb) in 2023.

Belagavi-based ecologist K.S. Gopi Sundar talks about his latest study and what he has learnt from his research about the coexistence of birds with humans in India

The trio landed in the custody of the Forest Department staff, who patrolled Kadukaimarathittu area falling under the Kottur section of Pollachi forest range of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve

Indian officials at the convention in Colombia (COP-16) say international finance will be necessary to meet goals

Ambala in Haryana recorded the highest AQI of 367 followed by Amritsar in Punjab at 350, while Delhi’s average AQI was 339; PM2.5 levels in Delhi reached values seen only in mid-winter months.

Nearly 200 countries convened in the city of Cali, aiming to implement the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement

Is a bigger corpus going to be available for the conservation and preservation of biological diversity?

COP16 aimed at assessing the progress on the agreement reached in 2022 in Canada to halt biodiversity loss, with more funding for biodiversity protection being a central issue.

At the COP16 negotiations in Colombia, countries failed to figure out how they would mobilise $200 billion a year in conservation funding by 2030

Climate finance issues expected to come up at COP29 in Baku; floods in western and central Africa, and the Chennai Urban Farming Initiative

Scientists said 2024 will also be the first year in which the planet is more than 1.5C hotter than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale.

Direct comparisons of the oil companies’ climate plans are difficult as they emphasise different approaches to intensity-based targets

The oncology sector continues to evolve with innovative solutions leveraging AI, robotics and genome sequencing

Dr Swati Mohan, the Indian-born NASA engineer, whose historic words, “touchdown confirmed”, announced to the world the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars on February 18, 2021

Shakti and Shiva are comprised of stars with similar chemical compositions, formed 12-13 billion years ago, and each structure has a mass about 10 million times greater than our sun

The ‘START’ programme is a kick start opportunity for the aspiring scientists and engineers

This was part of the Gairdner Foundation’s announcement of its 2024 Canada Gairdner Award winners

Gopi Thotakura was selected as one of the six crew members for the mission

Ananth Technologies designs avionics for ISRO and Defence, supplying components to 98 satellites and 78 launch vehicles

The WHO has recognised TTS as a rare but serious adverse event linked to specific Covid-19 vaccines.

Pneubevax14   14 was found to be safe and induced robust and functional serotype specific immune responses to all 14 serotypes

AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine faces UK class action suit; Serum Institute markets it in India as Covishield

Obesity has “exploded” around the world, and it’s not because people are lazy or weak-willed - Johann Hari, Author

These chips will be utilised for quantum computing and high-speed secured communication systems

This launch, which comes after several previous attempts, marks a major achievement as the first-ever controlled flight of a semi-cryogenic liquid engine realized through additive manufacturing

Emphasising the importance of expanding access to high-burden regions, the report calls for strategic initiatives to enable the production and distribution of life-saving antibiotics and antifungals

“In addition to patient care, MSK has been running successful  educational programmes” - Dr Mrinal Gounder, Sarcoma oncologist, and Early drug development specialist at MSK

The study, published in Nature Communications, marks the first confirmed instance of an earthquake driving avulsion in deltas, particularly for a river as immense as the Ganga. 

The technology has received a patent from the government

Prahlad Chandra Agrawal is the first Indian recipient of this award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of space research, particularly those in a leadership role.

A focused venture fund will give a boost to new entrepreneurs and non-government entities, IN-SPACe chairperson Pawan Goenka said

“The Panel’s decision today paves the way for the critically important next stages in our work — the nomination and selection of authors who will actually write these two reports”

SSLV was designed with the industry in mind, he said

Modification minimal, change incremental, says RB Grover

First shipment of vaccines expected to arrive in Congo within days: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Kakodkar spoke about BSR development and a new type of fuel, ANEEL — a concoction of highly enriched uranium and thorium that is making waves in the nuclear energy sector

Collaborations on four molecules, a fillip for research in the country

SpaceX launched the rescue mission on Saturday with a downsized crew of two astronauts and two empty seats reserved for Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams

On November 5, the stock price and all derivatives contracts on Coal India will be adjusted for dividend appropriately

One more leg of downmove is still a possibility before the broader uptrend resumes 

3 out every 4 stocks gained since last Diwali; power stocks and mid-caps led Samvat 2080 surge