Quamrul Haider

Exploring the cosmos: from ground-based telescopes to revolutionary space observatories

The Finger Lakes ― a group of eleven long and narrow water bodies in New York located directly south of Lake Ontario ― is well-known for hundreds of breath-taking waterfalls and dramatic gorges that mesmerise countless visitors every year. These geological masterpieces, in a glacial landscape, evoke emotion by inspiring us to slow down and appreciate the beauty of nature.

To deal with challenging climates, people have been living in caves for thousands of years.

So what can be done to counter the cock and bull stories of this breed of climate change deniers?

Today, Los Alamos is a quaint tight-knit community with the best education system in the state.

Protests by climate activists are anything but terrorism.

Does Grusch’s allegation of the government possessing UAPs hold water?

Why did so many people die in India this summer where the temperature was eight degrees less than that at Death Valley in the US?

One year since the breathtaking images mesmerised us, it is time to ask: is the telescope delivering on its promises to transform our knowledge of cosmology? Is it worth the hefty price tag of $10 billion?

Last week, the world witnessed the hottest day in modern history, with the global temperature average rising to a record 17.23 degrees Celsius.

The idea that life could travel through space to land on Earth once seemed outlandish.

Did we really “rise to the climate challenge?”

If you think that rivers only exist on land, think again. Holding an entire river of water in the form of moisture, they also exist in the atmosphere and are known as Atmospheric Rivers (AR).

Today, Dhaka is a dysfunctional megacity, an economic hub that has grown chaotically – outwards and upwards – to absorb more than 20 million people who live there, and hundreds of thousands more arriving each year.

To politicians – most of whom lack an iota of personal integrity – power is control over their citizens, patriotism is servility, and democracy is absolutism

Surreal as it may seem, we have clearly embarked on the path to self-annihilation.

Sea level rise, flash floods, and heat waves are the direct consequences of glacier melting.

Ironically, the UAE has appointed the CEO of one of the world’s largest oil producers to preside over COP28.

In December 2022, my wife and I stepped back in time and walked the footsteps of those who lived in the Mayan era at Chichén Itzá and Chacchobén in Mexico, and Nim Li Punit in Belize.

There have been some pretty amazing scientific discoveries in 2022.