Paris Makes All Public Transport Free In Battle Against 'Worst Air Pollution For 10 Years'

Parisians can use public transport for free for the second day running due to a spike in air pollution and some cars have been barred from the roads. The city is suffering ...

Australia is blowing its carbon budget, projections reveal

Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising despite global reduction efforts, according to detailed projections made by the consultants NDEVR Environmental.
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A Catastrophic Amount of Carbon Could Leak From the Soil By 2050

The term “snowball effect” is an unfortunate way to describe climate change, but a new study is predicting just that.

Climate scientists war...

India’s Immunization Coverage is Abysmal

India fares very poorly in comparison to other countries as far as expenditure and coverage for vaccinating it’s population goes. This, according to a recent white pa...

Why Is It Easier for India to Get to Mars Than to Tackle Its Toilet Challenge?

In 2013, India became the fourth country in the world (after Russia, the US and the EU) and the only emerging nation to launch a Mars probe into space. But it remains part ...

Why Le Bataclan Was Right To Open, And Why We Need To Keep Celebrating Live Music

On 13 November 2015, at around 8.55pm, a friend nudged my side and whispered that something was happening in Paris.We were at the Roundhouse, one of the most iconic music v...

Isabelle Huppert's 'Elle': The Provocative Rape-Revenge Film Earning Raves

The opening scenes of Elle, the latest provocation from Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven, telegraph the birth of what might become a new kind of razor-edged woman’s story....

How Reading Harry Potter Can Reduce Prejudice

A study found that reading the fantasy novels improves tolerance of stigmatized groups across a range of demographics Frequenters of social media may have found a surprisin...

Film4Climate contest winners showcase effects of climate change

Hundreds of young people raised their voices for climate action in the Connect4Climate Film4Climate Global Video Competition, showing that it is possible even in the remote...