Anthropocene epoch

An ongoing cave expedition in Meghalaya. The stalagmite that contained stratigraphic evidence of the purported Meghalayan event was found in the Krem Mawmluh cave, Meghalaya. Credit: Biospeleologist/Wikimedia Commons, GNU Free Documentation

Is the Meghalayan Event a Tipping Point in Geology?

C.P. Rajendran 23/07/2018

Last week, the International Commission on Stratigraphy approved an...

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What Does It Mean to Be Alive in the Human Epoch?

C.P. Rajendran 14/03/2018

Climate change is not simply a technological challenge as...

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The Jungle in Our Living Rooms

Adityavikram and Arefa Tehsin 18/02/2018

Nature programming on TV feeds a utopian delusion that...

Academic research seeks to discover new things and make testable predictions about our world and beyond. In this process, it sets standards for what constitutes a valid discovery. Credit: gastev/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What Are the Preconditions for Good Research in the Anthropocene Epoch?

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 29/11/2016

Can India's education policy empower students to pursue questions...

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Infinite in All Directions: Farts in a Bottle, Philosophy of Limits and Forgetting Chernobyl

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/08/2016

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

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Machli, the Tigress Who Reigned Over Ranthambhore

Neha Sinha 20/08/2016

While the conservation debate with its interplay of emotions...