Fossil fuel companies are suing countries that enact climate change policies, arguing that they are illegally cutting into their profits. Fossil fuel companies are suing countries that enact climate ...

“Behaviour of tiger P243 strengthened the belief that his presence means no harm to cubs. Instead, it showed lots of promise about the safety of the cubs. There is not much knowledge of the cubs’ ...

Khasi customs forbid tree-cutting in the law kyntang – the sacred groves and forests – and also disallow anyone from taking anything, even a leaf, out. A view of forests in Cherrapunjee, Meghalaya.

Parachute science is rife in palaeontology, and we need to do something about its consequences for the field, scientists say. A fish fossil from the Araripe basin on display in the Santana do Cariri ...

Many experts have tied the rise of pseudoscience in India to the Bharatiya Janata Party, a right-wing political party that came to power in 2014, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected. People ...

The concept of a journal with pre-publication peer review is outmoded or at least of marginal importance. Photo: Oleg Magni/Pexels. I’m not a significant contributor to the academic scientific ...

Field research in India is often extractive: researchers depend on the knowledge of local people to navigate unfamiliar landscapes, but later dismiss or forget the latter's contributions. Every year, ...

As the COVID-19 outbreak in India swelled earlier this year, there were reports of people dumping the bodies of those who had succumbed to the disease in the river. Dead bodies of those who died of ...

Solar panels are considered to be 'green' when they operate, but at the end of their lives, they become very dirty. Photo: Maksym Diachenko/Unsplash Solar energy is a rapidly expanding marketplace ...

The NDC Bill 2020 takes an important step in the right direction – and then gets distracted. Photo: worthyofelegance/Unsplash. Dentists are an important, but an often unrecognised, group of ...

Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.

A Pfizer subcontractor that oversaw three phase 3 trial sites allegedly falsified data, while neither Pfizer nor FDA followed up on complaints by an insider. A vial and syringe are seen in front of ...