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Nuclear merchant shipping is an idea whose time has come. But excluding the world’s mega-exporter China from talks on uranium-run ships is self-defeating. To decarbonize trade sea traffic, place the planet’s future first.

Vedika Pinto has become one of the most talked-about faces on screen following her role as Sudha in Netflix’s ‘Musafir Cafe’, opposite Vikrant Massey and Mahima Makwana. In a candid chat recently, the actor spoke about the overwhelming response to the show, the polarising reactions to her character, how the project came to her at…

Sea otters returned to California’s Elkhorn Slough in 1984 when pollution had severely affected its ecosystem. Their recovery triggered changes across the food web, helping eelgrass beds expand by 600%. A later study found marsh-edge erosion slowed by an average of 69%, as otters reduced populations of root-eating crabs.