UN Security Council steps into climate change

Calls attention to potential threat of climate on international peace

Science and Technology - Briefs

December In Copenhagen

Heatwave grips US too, ‘excessive heat warning’ for some areas

Biden announces measures to combat climate change  

Atlas of human suffering: IPCC report stresses on interconnections among climate, biodiversity, well-being

It warns of irreversible damages but also offers solutions

World Cancer Day: Southeast Asia should strengthen diagnosis, treatment, palliative care tools

Cervical cancer is the second-most prevalent in southeast Asia

Head of UNAIDS unpacks the knock-on effects of COVID-19. And what needs to be done

AIDS remains a crisis and COVID-19 is making it worse, says Winnie Byanyima

African countries need to seize opportunities created by US-China tensions

This will require a great deal of imagination and courage

UNCCD CoP: Centre unclear how states are spending money allotted for forests

The 14th Finance Commission had given 7.5 per cent weightage to forest cover

Every 9th person in the world went hungry last year: UN report

Around 700 million were exposed to severe food insecurity in 2018

Fashion industry may use quarter of world’s carbon budget by 2050

Emissions from this sector are to rise by more than 60 per cent by 2030

After Paris, UK's latest 'carbon budget' just isn't ambitious enough

British people will still be able to emit 60% more than their fair share

India to be fastest growing large economy in 2016: UN report

Consumer and investor confidence in India has risen

‘Montreal treaty saved world’s ozone layer’

Data from NASA suggests the hole will be repaired by the end of 21st century

Renew efforts to rid planet of TB, UN chief urges governments

It is possible to end the epidemic by 2035, said Ban Ki-moon on World Tuberculosis Day

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Cosmic dance

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Tree coagulants

Why trees don’t bleed to death on being injured

Sizing up trees

A safer, cheaper device to measure tree circumference

Nano fix

Autoclave uses nanoparticles, sunlight to sterilise hospital equipment

An app beats court

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Bitter is better

Eating bitter food can help cure repiratory diseases

Amid germophobia

Triclosan in handwash can impair muscle contraction

Sneaky side-effects at a click

US scientists develop database for adverse drug reactions

Earth on verge of mass extinction

Event will be human-induced, warn scientists