Technology depends on rare earth minerals, but their extraction can harm our planet. Asteroids offer a plentiful source of valuable elements. In the future, mankind will go to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to mine for the vast wealth that is within the...
In remote villages live some of the last nomadic tribes in Indonesia. But nickel mining is disrupting their lives and poisoning their land. Bawehe Bidos, 68, from the O’Hongana Manyawa tribe poses for a photo in a remote Indigenous village in the Halmahera...
Almost 60,000 die from snakebite each year in India, but only one facility is producing the venom needed to make the antivenom. A herpetologist milks the venom out of a snake at Kenya Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre (KSRIC) in Nairobi, Kenya, 5 April 2024....
How India manages the extreme weather events that are becoming more common with climate change can be a lesson for the world. Rescuers on their second day of mission following Tuesday’s landslides wait to cross a river at Chooralmala, Wayanad district, Kerala state,...
With temperature inversion and climate change, the joyful meaning of a festival dissipates in the air we can’t breathe. Fireworks during a Diwali celebration. (Credit: Getty Images) This article, by high school student Anoushka Arbhi was produced out of News...
Would you want a roommate to treat you the way we’ve treated the Earth? It’s time to clean up our act. The Earth, personified, slouches on a sofa. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article, by high school student Shikka Nanda, was produced out of News...
We’ve mapped stars billions of light years away. But what lies just hundreds of feet below the surface of our own water has been unfathomable. A scorpion fish in a deep sea coral reef. (Credit: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) This article...
It’s time we rethink what we buy and wear and toss. As we fill our closets with new threads, the earth is getting poisoned by polyester. One woman models a skirt made out of a magpie inkcap mushroom and another models a skirt made of seaweed. (Illustration by...
Media often reports climate change as a doom and gloom scenario and ends up pushing people away. Can we get them to tune in and take action? Listen to the “Eyes on Climate” podcast. In News Decoder’s Top Tips, we share advice for young people from...
In many households around the world, you will find toys wrapped up under a Christmas tree, most made from plastic. Can we change that scenario? An origami Christmas scene with cookie snowman and gingerbread man. (Illustration by News Decoder) Editor’s note:...