Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

An exhibition to Thirst after  Our 2018 TOI litfest and my recent volume for the tricentenary of Mumbai’s mystical Parsi well were both titled Waternamah. This week I again immersed myself in  the ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

Using Fredericksburg as a proxy for the region, the average July rainfall over the last about 40 years is 2.2 inches. But ...

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

This is a summary of: Li, L. et al. Global dominance of seasonality in shaping lake-surface-extent dynamics. Nature 642, 361–368 (2025). The mission ...

Using intricate geometry found in nature and refined through aerospace and biomedical design, scientists have now 3D-printed ...

Sewage and rainwater was discharged into Sussex’s sea and rivers for 157,534 hours last year - but what are storm overflows and how do they ...

Physicists at the University of Liège have succeeded in sculpting the surface of water by exploiting surface tension. Using ...

Space ice” contains tiny crystals and is not, as previously assumed, a completely disordered material like liquid water, ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...