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FILE PHOTO: COP15, the two-week U.N. Biodiversity summit in Montreal

India Supports Global Biodiversity Framework, But Implementation Could Require Work

Aathira Perinchery 22/12/2022

India raised several concerns at COP15, including funds for...

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COVID-19: What We Know About New Omicron Variant BF.7

Manal Mohammed 21/12/2022

A creative rendition of a colorised scanning electron micrograph...

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There’s Something Deeply Unsettling About the Space Barons’ Capitalist Swagger

Philip Ball 20/12/2022

Outer space was supposed to belong to all humankind....

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What Chimpanzees Can Tell Us About Why Humans Walk on Two Legs

Fiona Stewart and Alexander Piel 19/12/2022

Almost all theories of human bipedalism explain it as...

FILE PHOTO: Pieces of floating ice with polar bear footprints on them are seen from the Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship at the Arctic Ocean

Arctic Report Card 2022: More Rains, Shifting Seasons and Broad Disturbances

Matthew L. Druckenmiller, Rick Thoman and Twila Moon 19/12/2022

The annual report is also a reminder that what...

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Shrinking Himalayan Glaciers Threaten Chinese and Indian Energy Transitions

Alok Gupta 17/12/2022

A recent study on the state of a glacier...

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How an Indian PhD Student Made Sanskrit’s ‘Language Machine’ Work

Tom Almeroth-Williams 17/12/2022

A major implication of Rishi Rajpopat’s discovery is that...