Topic: Amazon rainforest
Scientists create the world’s fastest camera that can record UV-range photons in real time
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.
The Amazon is burning in 2020 again. It can just lead to more pandemics
According to the Global Fire Emissions Database project run by NASA, fires in the Amazon in 2020 surpassed those of 2019.
Germany’s second wave, Kenya cancels school year, Amazonians in distress & other Covid news
As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.
Virus grows world’s rich-poor education gap, UK not wearing masks & other Covid news
As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.
Evidence of brain surgery in ancient Greece, a sharp spike in methane emissions in 2019
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.
Amazon forest fires melting glaciers 1,000 miles away
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.
Amazon’s tallest tree has suddenly grown even taller, but scientists can’t figure out how
The Guiana Shield of north-eastern Amazonia, which accounts for nearly 9 per cent of world’s remaining tropical forests, may contain lots of these gigantic trees.
Amazon’s gold, military legacy fuel Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s rainforest rage
Jair Bolsonaro, the subject of global criticism for fanning the flames of the Amazon's destruction, believes the rainforest is a Brazilian asset and not the world's.
Why Brazil has refused G7 funds to tackle Amazon wildfires
Brazil has witnessed a dramatic 85 per cent rise in wildfires in the Amazon rainforest this year.
Listen to Mohan Bhagwat’s Dussehra speech. You won’t say RSS lacks intellectual bandwidth
Mainstream Indian media used to denigrate and ridicule RSS. But it is now publishing its chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statements as front-page news.
Iraq PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi bets big on economic reforms
Kadhimi's govt is pushing a soup-to-nuts overhaul in the next three to five years. The path of least resistance would have been to wait until the general election next summer.
Defence
India & US agree on deeper cooperation in Indo-Pacific as Rajnath meets Mark Esper
The hour-long meeting between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his US counterpart Mark Esper came a day before the bilateral 2+2 ministerial dialogue in Delhi.
Trump or Biden? Doesn’t matter to India-US ties as they’re in a full, strategic embrace
Pompeo & Esper’s visit to India for the 2+2 talks is proof that old hypocrisies are history, and supreme national interest has again driven a strategic choice.