Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

China's Dirty Air Just Hit 'Doomsday' Levels

The smog grounded flights, closed highways, and prompted officials to tell residents to stay indoors. Visibility in the northeastern industrial city of 5 million was just a...

Respiratory, Cardiac Diseases On The Rise-

In ten years from now, New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai together will record the highest number of premature deaths caused by air pollution.

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Gender Swaps: The Hollywood Films And TV Shows Swapping Male For Female Leads

An all-female Ghostbusters sequel was first revealed in January. Ghostbusters (1984) and its sequel – Ghostbusters II in 1989 – both starred an all-male cast of...

There’s a New Plan to Save Madagascar’s Lemurs From the Brink of Extinction.

Lemurs are unique to Madagascar and there are around 100 different species, but a 2014 report by International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that nearly...

Cities Are Overheating, And Cooling Them Off Will Be Risky

Taha is the president of Altrostratus, which developed California’s recently-published urban heat island index map. The map shows the areas most impacted by the urban...

This Incredible 4K Video Of The Sun Took NASA 300 Hours To Make

Launched in 2010, the SDO monitors the Sun 24/7 to better understand how it affects our Earth. To highlight the different temperatures of solar materials, SDO captures foot...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Is About To Get a Precarious Memory Wipe

Prior to its Aug. 12, 2005 launch, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was loaded up with 10 years’ worth of data projecting the future positions of Earth ...

Poachers Are Using Cyanide To Slaughter Entire Elephant Herds

A total of 26 elephant carcasses were found dead on in just two weeks from cyanide poisoning in Hwange National Park, the largest game reserve in Zimbabwe. The latest incid...