Nature

Explained: COP15's nature-pact goal to protect 30% of Earth

Some activists argue that the ‘30x30’ target is nature's equivalent of the historic 1.5C global warming target set at climate talks under the Paris Agreement. However, delegates negotiating a broad agreement to protect nature are divided on how to pay for ‘30x30’ and how it would be implemented

Did amputations occur 31,000 years ago? What a new skeleton reveals?

The findings suggest that Stone Age hunter-gatherers living in what is now Indonesia's East Kalimantan province had sophisticated medical knowledge of anatomy and wound treatment

Watch: Axing of tree in Malappuram takes a toll on score of birds

While the scene of the tree falling is already horrifying, the death of numerous birds as collateral damage makes it even more heartbreaking

Chile's Atacama desert, said to be world's driest place, turns into valley of flowers

Desierto Florido, which roughly translates to ‘flowering desert,’ is the term used to describe this weather occurrence. This event happens once every five to seven years between the months of September and November

Can death be reversed? Scientists partially revive pig organs hour after demise

The discovery raises hopes for a whole host of future medical uses in humans and could potentially lead to the lives of thousands being saved around the world. Experts and ethicists say the breakthrough could mean a need to update the definition of death itself

Dia Mirza shares the importance of nature through an Instagram post

The actress took to Instagram on Wednesday to share how Nature is so important to us with lushful pictures from Coorg, Karnataka.

Sherni director Amit Masurkar deconstructs the Vidya Balan film: 'We are used to seeing the jungle with a colonial lens'

"The forest is often shown as a dark, dangerous, and mysterious place. It was our conscious effort to look at the jungle with a native eye — as Mother Nature — accepting, open, warm, nurturing," says Amit Masurkar, director of Vidya Balan-starrer Sherni.

To reach net-zero emissions and remove CO2 from the air, scientists drawn up six priorities

Information on CO₂ removal is found in academic literature and focuses on a global scale but actually doing it will involve everyone from local farmers to international financiers.

At Rio de Janeiro zoo, the city's last wild macaw seeks a companion

Almost every morning for the last two decades, Juliet has appeared. She swoops onto the zoo enclosure where macaws are kept and, through its fence, engages in grooming behavior that looks like conjugal canoodling.

Scientist develop tech that communicates with crops, finds out when they get sick

The tech is still new, but it could be used to build "plant-based robots" that handle fragile objects when rigid, robotic arms can't.