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Thursday, July 24, 2025
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Topic: Climate Crisis

70-million-year-old fossils of one of world’s last megaraptors discovered in Argentina

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Earth Day turns 50, and the world is celebrating it digitally for the first time

Theme for 50th anniversary of Earth Day is climate action, already the topic of conversation around the world in the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump’s New Year misadventures, and a kangaroo caught in the Australian bushfires

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Republicans kick Democratic donkey to protect Trump, and the funeral of UK’s Labour Party

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘State of planetary emergency’: Global climate tipping points seen in fresh warning

Scientists lay out 9 crucial tipping points to suggest that the Earth is dangerously close to passing into irreversible planetary damage.

Water bodies running dry at alarming rate due to groundwater depletion, reveals study

Additional effects of groundwater depletion include a sudden sinking of a chunk of land, which increases risk of floods.

This man-made disaster is under your feet ⁠— shrinking river flows dry up the ground

By 2050, more than half of watersheds where groundwater is pumped out may see river flow drop, according to a study published in the journal Nature.

Air pollution in cities like Delhi linked to children’s cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s, death

Severe air pollution can speed up neurodegeneration when the brain is at the peak of its development — during childhood.

Not just Greta Thunberg, this young Indian climate activist is also taking on govts

Eleven-year-old Ridhima Pandey is one of the 16 petitioners who filed a complaint to protest the lack of government action on the climate crisis at the UN Climate Action Summit.

On Camera

Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.