A suspected meteor and white streaks in the skies were spotted over Pennsylvania and Ohio on Tuesday morning. The National Weather Service and Nasa both confirmed a fireball fell in Northeast Ohio near Cleveland. “We’re receiving reports across western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio of a loud boom and a fireball in the sky. Our satellite…
File photo (Picture credit: AFP) BRASILIA: Brazilian leaders unveiled a new national climate plan Monday that prioritises enhanced forest protections as a key strategy in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.The Latin American giant hasn’t updated its main program to mitigate climate change since 2008, and the new plan looks forward to 2035, when Brazil is expected…
Image Credit: AI Generated Imagine a time when the blue planet looked nothing like it does today. A time when the oceans were frozen over, the continents were locked in a thick sheet of ice, and the sun reflected off a world almost entirely white. This is not science fiction, but a real time in…
A century ago, in a quiet cabbage patch in Auburn, Massachusetts, something happened. Dr Robert H. Goddard, a Clark University Physics professor, fired up a rocket powered by liquid fuel. It flew for a mere 2.5 seconds and landed in a cabbage patch 184 feet (56 meters) as reported by NASA. This little test, on…
The Mallah community is opposing the acquisition of around 100 acres of land in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, for the development of a freight village as part of the Ramnagar multi-modal terminal. Despite falling in the Varanasi urban extension area, the compensation for the land is being fixed at the lower circle rate of Chandauli…
Civil lines: Things fall apart Red Crescent teams and firefighting units conducting relief operations in the Resalat area of Tehran affected by the US‑Israeli airstrikes. Wars and conflicts now kill more people than natural disasters, and there is no propensity to achieve peace Click here to read more Special report: Himalayan fire shift The Himalayas in…
As per a recent study conducted by researchers at Brown University, robots are being trained to locate items in messy spaces by imitating dogs. When we want to find an object, we simply point to where it is. When a robot is given a point to go to, it is able to complete the task…
The year 2025 was a landmark of sorts for India. It saw the country record the largest drop in greenhouse gas emissions among the major economies of the world. Part of the credit goes to the power sector, which saw a year-on-year decline in emissions for the first time since 2020. While in 2020, the…
Similar patterns appear along much of the Himalayan arc, where studies have documented a notable upward shift in fire activity since 2001, when continuous satellite-based fire observations became available. One study, published in Natural Hazards by researchers from Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology in Palampur, notes “a significant increase of forest fires towards higher elevation.”…
Imagine a satellite moving around the Earth for an entire decade without any sound, sending precise location details to millions of people on the Earth’s surface. IRNSS-1F, one of India’s navigation satellites, completed its 10-year design mission life on March 10, 2026, marking a key milestone for the country’s regional navigation system. The Indian Space…