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Antarctic Ozone Hole Shrinks to One of the Smallest in Decades

The 2025 Antarctic ozone hole has shown marked improvement, ranking as the fifth smallest since 1992 and breaking up weeks earlier than average. Scientists from NASA and NOAA...

November 25, 2025

India Records 0.9°C Temperature Rise in Past Decade

A new multi-institutional climate study reports that India’s average temperature rose by nearly 0.9°C between 2015 and 2024. The findings highlight a sharp increase in warm days and...

November 22, 2025

India’s First Native-Born Cheetah Mukhi Gives Birth to Five Cubs

India’s cheetah conservation effort has reached a defining moment with the birth of five cubs to Mukhi, the first female cheetah born in the country under the reintroduction...

November 20, 2025

Turkey is Ready to Host COP31 Climate Summit

Turkey is set to host next year’s COP31 climate summit under a developing compromise arrangement with Australia. The agreement, emerging from negotiations at COP30 in Brazil, aims to...

November 20, 2025

US Confirms First Human Infection With H5N5 Bird Flu

The United States has reported the world’s first known human case of the H5N5 strain of avian influenza, raising global public-health attention. The patient, an older adult with...

November 19, 2025

India Slips 13 Places In Global Climate Change Index

India has dropped 13 positions to rank 23rd in the latest Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2026, marking its steepest fall in recent years. The assessment highlights a...

November 19, 2025

Cambodia Backs Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative at COP30

Cambodia has formally joined the growing coalition of countries calling for a global Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, marking a key moment at COP30 in Belem, Brazil. The move...

November 19, 2025

UNEP’s 2025 Methane Report Warns of Rising Global Emissions

A new global assessment by the UN Environment Programme and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition has highlighted critical gaps in methane reduction efforts ahead of the 2030...

November 18, 2025

Rediscovery of Moema claudiae in Bolivia After Two Decades

The reappearance of Moema claudiae, a rare seasonal killifish long considered lost, has brought renewed optimism to conservationists working in Bolivia’s threatened lowland ecosystems. Found after more than...

November 16, 2025

Ancient RNA Recovered from a 39,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth

Scientists have sequenced ancient RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth preserved in Siberian permafrost, offering a rare, molecular-level glimpse into the life and cellular activity of this extinct...

November 16, 2025

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