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Receding Glacier Causes Immense Canadian River To Vanish In Four Days

An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over the course of four days last year, scientists have reported, in an unsettling illustr...

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Hyderabad: Once Rescued From Child Marriage, These Teenagers Are College Toppers Today

Two teenage girls proved what girls can achieve, if rescued from falling victims to child marriages. Childhood friends K Sandhya and V Sandhya stood first and second in fir...

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To Deliver Sustainable Development, First Give Up On 'Growth'

The global economy has already outgrown the Earth, writes Jason Hickel. Yet even the UN insists that we need decades of continued economic growth to end poverty. The truth ...

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Four Successful Female Directors On Gender Disparity In Hollywood

Most women directors don’t like to talk about gender. They’d rather just get on with their work. “I never think of myself as just being a female director,...

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New Study Shows Worrisome Signs For Greenland Ice

As humans put more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, ice around the planet melts. This melting can be a problem, particularly if the melting ice...

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Is It Wrong To Group Together LGBT Art?

Billed as ‘the first major exhibition dedicated to queer British art’, Tate Britain's brand new show, which covers gay art from 1861 to 1967, joins a host of ot...

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France Becomes The First Country To Ban Plastic Plates And Cutlery

France has apparently become the first country in the world to ban plastic plates, cups and utensils, passing a law that will go into effect in 2020. Exceptions will be all...

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FN Souza’s Journey From Unjustly Forgotten To India’s Most Expensive Artist

Francis Newton Souza, an Indian artist in his lifetime struggled to make an impact in the field of art. After his death in 2002, he is now considered as the country’s...

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Amitabh Bachchan Makes An Important Point About Rape Victim-Blaming, In TV Show

In a two-minute prologue to TV show Kya Qusoor Hai Amla Ka, Amitabh Bachchan poses some hard-hitting questions to society. "Rape sirf rapist hi nahin karta. Hum jaise log b...

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North Sea Oil Is In Its Death Throes. But The Industry Has One Last Grand Act Left

To witness the beginning or end of a great industry or a way of living isn’t unusual. Each generation has its list of comings and goings – great grandfathers wh...

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