OPEC+ is closely monitoring developments in the oil market. OPEC+ has agreed to keep its oil production targets unchanged for November, the group said in a statement after a meeting on Sunday, Reuters reported.The decision comes as the group continues to assess the impact of ongoing conflicts in West Asia and disruptions to oil exports…
The debt conversion was supported by several private funders, including the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation was among the private funders that backed a deal helping Seychelles use debt financing for ocean conservation. The deal helped the island nation increase the area of its ocean under protection from just 0.04% of its Exclusive Economic…
Representative Image of a solar-thermal weed-control system with motorised mirrors directing sunlight on plants in a field (AI Generated Image) A student from Sydney has developed a solar-thermal system designed to control weeds without chemicals, using motorised mirrors to direct sunlight toward vegetation. Daniel Cox, a student at The Scots College in Sydney, developed the…
PC: Muskegon Lake Watershed Partnership/ NOAA Fisheries Muskegon Lake in Michigan has been removed from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Areas of Concern list after about decades of restoration work. The lake was designated one of the most environmentally degraded sites in the Great Lakes about 40 years ago. In September 2025, it was officially…
Yu Zidi and Puripol Boonson (Reuters/AP Photo) The Asian Games have found two new superstars.China’s 13-year-old swimming sensation Yu Zidi and Thailand’s 20-year-old sprinting powerhouse Puripol Boonson were named the Female and Male Most Valuable Players of the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on Sunday.The pair were rewarded for…
Mukesh Khanna opens up on making a comeback with ‘Vishwaguru’ after ‘Censor’, says ‘people are waiting for me’: ‘I make very few films’ Veteran actor Mukesh Khanna is set to return to the big screen with Vishwaguru, a project he says appealed to him because of its subject and larger message. In a recent interaction,…
Astronomers have, for the first time, watched gas fall onto a neutron star. A team led by Roi Rahin used the Resolve instrument aboard the XRISM space telescope to observe GX 301–2, an accreting X-ray pulsar paired with the massive hypergiant Wray 977. According to a new study published in Science Advances, titled ‘Direct spectroscopic…
PC: 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in 2019 A meteorite that spent decades as a barn doorstop in Michigan has been identified as a new IIIAB iron meteorite. The 10.22-kilogram rock reportedly fell on a farm near Edmore in 1939. After a different meteorite fell near Hamburg, Michigan, in 2018, the farm’s later owners,…
Picture Credit: YouTube Screengrab Legendary filmmaker Singeetham Srinivasa Rao‘s death at the age of 94 has left the Indian film fraternity mourning the loss of one of its most inventive storytellers. Among those remembering the veteran director is filmmaker Nag Ashwin, who produced Singeetham’s final directorial venture, Sing Geetham. In a personal tribute, Nag has…
File photo: Cornell University At Cornell University, disciplinary action against seven fraternity members accused of sexual misconduct ranged from expulsion and suspension to a requirement that some of the men study sexual harassment and write “reflection papers” on their conduct, according to disciplinary records obtained by the New York Times.Two men were expelled, two were…