Communities dig water-harvesting pits to restore degraded land and improve soil moisture in the Sahel. For decades, the Sahel has symbolised environmental decline. Stretching nearly 5,900 kilometres across Africa from Senegal on the Atlantic coast to Sudan on the Red Sea, this semi-arid belt has endured recurring droughts, advancing desertification and repeated crop failures since…

KATSEYE’s newly unveiled ‘WILD’ tracklist drew criticism after fans claimed its design closely resembled BTS’s ‘ARIRANG’ tracklist.Image credit (Instagram)​ The KATSEYE girl group, which is a project of the same management as BTS, received heavy criticism from their fans regarding the tracklist reveal of their upcoming EP ‘WILD’, for the song design being too similar…

Some people have to work hard for success. They work and wait, they learn, they fall, and they rise. It might look slow from the outside, but their hand might tell a different story. In palmistry, there are signs that suggest that work could be blessed with a hidden blessing later in life.It could be…

International students are Trump’s next $100,000 visa fee target The Trump administration is weighing a $100,000 fee on Optional Practical Training (OPT), the work permit that allows international students to stay in the United States after graduating from an American university, according to The Wall Street Journal. The proposal comes weeks after a federal court…

Copper leaf earns its name from the warm, coppery-red mottling that runs across its broad, slightly ruffled leaves, often shot through with streaks of bronze, pink, or deep maroon depending on the variety. It’s a fast-growing shrub that thrives in the kind of full, intense sun many other coloured-leaf plants struggle with, making it a…

Neeraj Chopra (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: Neeraj Chopra added another medal to his glittering career at the Commonwealth Games, but the silver medal was not the only reason for his smile. The Olympic champion said sharing the podium with fellow Indian Yashvir Singh made the moment even more special.Neeraj finished second in the men’s…

Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha condemned the latest attac. NEW DELHI: The death toll in Friday night’s terror attack on migrant labourers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam rose to two on Saturday after a Chhattisgarh worker succumbed to injuries in hospital, officials told news agency PTI.The attack took place late Friday night in the Kelam area…

YouTuber and science educator Hank Green is facing criticism after admitting he used AI to help research a recent episode of his Ask Hank Anything series. The debate started after viewers shared a clip from the episode online and claimed one part sounded like it came from an AI chatbot. Green denied that AI wrote…

The latest addition to the United State’s to-do list is Japanese currency, yen.Signs that Washington was preparing to back Japan’s currency came to light on Friday after a photograph from US President Donald Trump’s cabinet meeting at Camp David showed US treasury secretary Scott Bessent weighing purchases of between $5 billion and $10 billion worth…

Image(s): Florida Key Isaland/Canva Imagine erasing almost every insect and small animal from an island, then watching nature rebuild itself from scratch. That was exactly what a team of ecologists did in the Florida Keys during one of the most influential ecological experiments ever conducted. In 1966, researchers enclosed tiny mangrove islands in enormous plastic…