Life
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Plastics: lifesaver turned environmental threat
With plastic now an integral part of daily life and global production exploding, concerns abound about its impact on the health of the planet -- and ourselves.
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Sacred cows to become agents of energy as India eyes bioenergy to cut carbon
In its endless quest for power to fuel its economic growth, India has pushed biogas to achieve a much-promised transition to carbon neutrality by 2070
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Green shoots spring from ashes in Brazil's fire-resistant savanna
Cerrado, which is less well-known than the neighbouring Amazon and Pantanal wetlands, has a superpower: over millions of years, it has developed some resistance to flames and high temperatures
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French parliament approves bill to rein in tourist rentals
The National Assembly lower house adopted the legislation by a large majority, with the far right voting against
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On the trail of lemurs in Madagascar
Endemic to Madagascar and threatened with extinction, lemurs are the country's most famous residents
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Waste heat from London sewers eyed to warm UK parliament
The £1.0-billion ($1.3-billion) low-carbon heating infrastructure project—initiated by Westminster Council and the government's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)—aims to harness waste heat from a small area and distribute it locally
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Bimal Das Gupta didn't know anything in the world except his art: Paresh Maity
The contemporary artist recalls his years with the master abstractionist, the recognition that eluded him in the past few decades, and the essence and evolution of his own work
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Companies that read more perform better, researchers say
A study published in the Royal Society Open Science journal argues that a company's success is associated with the amount of information its employees read on a daily basis
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Private jet carbon emissions soar 46%: study
Carbon dioxide emissions from private aviation peaked over the European summer and around major global events like the World Cup, Cannes Film Festival and UN climate summits, the study found
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Fading literature: Delhi's famed Urdu Bazaar on last legs
The narrow streets of Urdu Bazaar, in the shadow of the 400-year-old Jama Masjid mosque, were once the core of the city's Urdu literary community, a centre of printing, publishing and writing
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Diptyque makes India debut: Shah Rukh Khan's favourite perfume enters market with New Delhi store launch
For Diptyque, opening in India is not just about entering a new market, but about connecting with a culture that has a profound relationship with fragrance, says the French maison's new CEO Laurence Semichon