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The RWE Niederaussem lignite-fired power station in Bergheim, Germany, a 2020 picture. According to the IPCC report, from 1850 to 2019, approximately 2,390 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide have been emitted, which are responsible, along with lesser contributions from other greenhouse gases, for an increase in global surface temperature by about 1.07 °C above pre-industrial levels.

IPCC calls for immediate action rather than rhetorical references to a “climate crisis”

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Einstein's Century

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Circular reasoning

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Climate activists in Copenhagen on November 17.-JENS PANDURO/AP

Carbon alert

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The private Einstein

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Nuclear crisis in South Asia

The current crisis in India-Pakistan relations is a direct consequence of the pursuit of nuclear weaponisation by India, followed closely by Pakistan.

A judicial blow

The Andhra Pradesh High Court's dismissal of a writ petition against the UGC's move to introduce the study of astrology in the universities calls atte

Vedic astrology and all that

Astrology has no academic standing of any worth; there is no evidence that it has any empirical basis. The campaign to introduce it as a subject in un

Looking for the next breakthrough

The Strings 2001 conference held in Mumbai was dominated by the themes and directions that had been initiated over the last four or five years, consid

The coup and the Indian nuclear theology

Who controlled the nuclear button in Pakistan as the coup was under way? An assessment of the implications of the coup vis-a-vis nuclear weaponisation