Climate change data can help us be better prepared
The effects of climate change are being observed everywhere. There are severe heat waves, sea levels are rising, there is an increase in...
Iceland Airwaves – A paradise for music lovers!
The city of Reykjavik, Iceland, holds an annual five-day music festival for one week every fall. It becomes, quite literally, the live...
Nature is the best defence against nature
Natural disasters are not an uncommon phenomenon. We see them every day in one form or another, be it hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanic...
Communicating climate change
Recently, the tank at the Sai Kung fish market in Hong Kong was seen spotted with unusual creatures. Buyers chose from live mantis...
Capitalism vs nature
Capitalism and climate change have been topics of discussion capable of both inspiring and overwhelming the masses. After numerous...
This shipworm could lead to medical advances
There dwells in the foul mud of a remote lagoon in the Philippines a four feet long dark slithering creature. This giant shipworm with...
Pros and cons of working underwater
As a child, many of us wanted to have an adventurous career in life, something that would give us a thrill. However, very few succeeded...
California power outages trigger chaos
When the nation’s utility warned customers that it would cut off power for nearly two million people across Northern California, home to...
Want to watch solar eclipse? Read this first
A solar eclipse occurs when a portion of the Earth is engulfed in a shadow cast by the Moon which fully or partially blocks (“occults”)...
Water water everywhere, not a drop to drink
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner is one of the finest pieces of poetry in human history. It spoke of a man stuck at sea, surrounded by...
An octopus or a squid could outsmart you
Cephalopods—octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish—are some of the most intriguing creatures on Earth. They perform fantastic feats of...
Oysters vs. changing ocean conditions
With the progress of science, breeding animals have become even easier. The process has become faster and efficient to breed cows that...
Climate change causes coastal upwelling
Ninety-seven percent of climatology scientists have regarded all the human activities of the 21st century to be contributing to dangerous...
What makes underwater popping rocks explode on surface?
Have you ever heard about ‘Popping Rocks’?! No? Well, believe it or not but there lies deep within the ocean a special variety of rock...
Cultivating Cannabis in an innovative way.
Modernisation has its own adverse effects. With the increasing standard of life, infrastructural requirements have increased. Cities...
Is extreme weather getting more extreme?
Weather is what is taking place in the air around Earth. Rain and snow are a kind of weather so are sunny and fair days. The main things...
Changing perspective on failure
What failure really means and how we look at it is changing. Nidhi Mehta, a freshman at Northeastern University, has already trekked to...
Sea, adventure and the journalist
It was in the month of November, through a closed-circuit TV news program, that Stephen Burgard’s journalism career started. He was at...
Are these humpback whales really too close?
In the crowded shipping port of Boston Harbour, around six humpback whales were spotted. According to a professor of the Northeastern...



















