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Kiran Journals

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Kiran Athar is a writer at Space Daily with a degree in multimedia journalism. She covers psychology, identity, and the inner life — the questions of how people change, what holds them back, and what helps them grow. Her writing for Space Daily sits in the Mind & Meaning pillar, where she focuses on practical psychology and the human side of ambition.

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Climate Science

A single cotton T-shirt requires approximately 2,700 litres of water to produce, the equivalent of one person’s drinking water for two and a half years, and the global fashion industry now consumes approximately 79 billion cubic metres of fresh water annually, much of it drawn from regions already facing severe drought.

The 2,700-litre figure comes from the World Wildlife Fund's accounting of the full water footprint of a single cotton garment, including the irrigation…

Jun 6, 2026

Climate Science

NOAA has placed an 82 per cent probability that El Niño will emerge in the central Pacific between May and July 2026, the climate state that in 1997-98 caused more than 20,000 deaths worldwide and approximately US$36 billion in damage, that in 2015-16 produced what was then the warmest year on record and the most extensive Amazon drought yet measured, and that has accompanied every one of the ten warmest years in the global temperature record, all of which have occurred since 2015

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center issued an El Niño Watch on 12 March 2026, the formal alert level indicating favourable conditions for the development of the climate state called El Niño within the following four months.

May 27, 2026

Human Behaviour

For the first time in human history, most people live under skies they cannot see — and the psychological consequence of having lost the night sky has barely begun to be measured.

There is a fact about the night sky in 2026 that does not get mentioned in most space coverage, even though it is one of the more consequential things about how humans currently relate to the universe.

May 18, 2026

Human Behaviour

The Katy Perry flight wasn’t a vanity project. It was the moment the space industry finally admitted who its real customer is — and the backlash, however satisfying it felt, missed the point entirely.

On 14 April 2025, six women boarded a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule at Launch Site One in West Texas and rode it past the Kármán line for ten minutes and twenty-one seconds.

May 15, 2026

Psychology

David Attenborough turned 100 last week — and his oldest argument against space exploration is the same conclusion most astronauts come home with

In October 1980, on Ireland's Late Late Show, Gay Byrne asked David Attenborough what he made of the search for life beyond Earth.

May 15, 2026