Love You to the Moon and Back. The Moon and love have long kept each other’s company. Since the earliest ages of human expression, poets have used the Moon to speak of longing, lovers have looked up at it for comfort, husbands have reached for it when words ran dry, and newly married couples have…
The Sundarbans, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site spanning India and Bangladesh, is seeing a marked decline in its ability to recover from environmental stress like climate driven and anthropogenic disturbances, a new study has found. Researchers estimate that around 10-15 per cent of the forest, roughly 610 to…
The four astronauts on Nasa’s Artemis II mission have travelled further from Earth than anyone in human history, in a dramatic lunar flyby that brought spectacular images of the planet from rarely seen angles. The Orion spacecraft’s crew lost contact with mission control for 40 minutes as they circled behind the Moon, as was expected….
In a canal-irrigated village in eastern India, farmers increasingly speak not just about yields, but about certainty. “Earlier, we waited for rain,” one cultivator observed. “Now we plan.” That shift—from dependence on rainfall to the ability to plan production—captures a deeper transformation underway in Indian agriculture. As climate change makes monsoons more erratic, dry spells…
On April 6, 2026, SpaceX carried out a Starlink mission using a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch placed 25 satellites into low-Earth orbit. It took place at 7:50 pm Pacific Time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission followed a short delay caused by upper-level wind conditions, which required a shift from the…
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Nearly half of Jammu and Kashmir’s lakes have disappeared over the past decades, according to a new audit by India’s Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). The report, which examined lake management between 2017-18 and 2021-22, found that out of 697 lakes recorded in 1967, 315 have vanished. These covered an area of 1,537.07…
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission has accomplished another difficult milestone by restoring essential communication with Mission Control after going dark for about 40 minutes previously. As the Orion spacecraft passed behind the far side of the Moon, there was a complete loss of radio communications due to the Moon blocking it. This ‘loss of signal’ (LOS)…
Using the new information, described as a “master key”, those involved in the project said they had already traced Crinkle’s roots back to wild populations near Ifrane National Park and Khenifra National Park in Morocco – two strongholds for the species. Source link
Warming oceans intensify extreme weather events, disrupt marine ecosystems, and alter large-scale ocean circulation. Unlike historical fluctuations driven by natural forces, the present rise in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) is occurring at an unprecedented rate and is linked to human activity. Improved ocean monitoring, satellite observations, and regional climate models provide information for early…