If We Burn All The World's Fossil Fuels, We'll Melt Antarctica & Flood The Earth.

"We show in simulations using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model that burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the ice sheet," the author...

Years Of Living Dangerously: Merchants Of Doubt hiding An Inconvenient Truth

The Climate Change debate has been active for close to thirty years now. James E Hansen was the first scientist to expose to dangers of climate change when he decided to of...

Tiny Marine Organisms At The Base Of The Food Chain Are Eating The Plastic We Toss In The Oceans

Tiny marine organisms sitting at the very bottom of our food chain are ingesting the plastics that humans are tossing by the ton into the world's oceans, say researchers in...

Women Set To Dominate At London Indian Film Festival 2015

From the tale of a persecuted rights activist hounded from her home to Shabnam Sukhdev’s moving study of her father, this year’s programme foregrounds work by a...

The Economic Options For Combatting Climate Change

The Federal Government Announced Today That 2014 Was The Hottest Year For The Planet In The 135 Years That Records Have Been Kept. Greenhouse Gas Concentration, Land Surfac...

How Climate Change Is Making Wildfires Worse

In a vicious cycle, wildfires are also making climate change worse, a study finds increasingly hot and dry climates, the result of global climate change, have led to a wors...

TOI Scouts For Next Gen Of Writers Through Write India Initiative

The crowd sourced platform will give 11 budding writers an opportunity to get a book published in their name under the mentorship of India’s leading authors The Times...

Techno-Visionaries And The Philosopher’s Stone

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

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Part Of Antarctica Suddenly Started Melting At A Rate Of 14 Trillion Gal. A Year

Sometime in 2009, a long-stable, glacier-filled region in Antarctica suddenly began to melt. Fast. A team of scientists with the University of Bristol made the alarming obs...