The WMO’s 2025 State of Global Water Resources report finds a fourth straight year of net glacier mass loss worldwide, with 408 ± 132 gigatonnes of ice gone, driving 1.1 ± 0.4 mm sea level rise. Six ...

India enters a weather transition as the southwest monsoon withdraws from northwest states, driving dry heat and soaring temperatures in Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan, while a strengthening Bay of Bengal ...

A new book argues that empowering half of the world’s smallholder farmers to adopt regenerative practices on just 12% of arable land could feed 1.5 billion more people by 2050, while restoring soils, ...

WWA scientists say fossil fuel-driven warming helped trigger and intensify Nepal’s August 26 cascading flood, a multi-stage ...

Despite its reputation for torrential downpours, Meghalaya has recorded a 59% monsoon deficit this year, with districts like ...

Marking 20 years since Pluto’s demotion, astronomers revisit the 2006 IAU definition that stripped it of planetary status. New Horizons’ detailed images of glaciers, mountains, atmosphere and moons fu ...

One in three institutions set up to advance gender equality has had its power weakened in the past two years, as the world faces a “political retreat” from wome ...

A potential cyclone, likely to be named Arnab, may form over the Bay of Bengal next week and move towards the Odisha–Andhra ...

As AI systems grow more human-like, the question of their consciousness is becoming unavoidable and could rival abortion or climate change as a polarising issue. Surveys reveal deep public splits, and ...

A report warns Himalayan glaciers are melting 65% faster than a decade ago, pushing the region toward a tipping point. Black carbon from South Asian industries drives about one-third of the melt, ...

Forests and trees are vital to global food security, nutrition and livelihoods, yet their role is largely ignored in national statistics and policies, FAO’s new report warns. It shows forests provide ...