Category: Environment

Smartphones to help probe seal numbers decline in Scotland

London, March 29 (IANS) In a first, researchers in Scotland are using smartphone-based technology to find the reason behind plummeting…

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Warnings for fresh winds, rough sea in UAE

Abu Dhabi, March 29 (IANS/WAM) The UAE'S National Centre for Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) has urged motorists to exercise caution,…

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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘worst’ bleaching

Canberra, March 29 (IANS) Evidence that Australia's Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst coral bleaching on record has renewed…

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Nitrogen pollution may lead to loss in plant diversity

New York, March 29 (IANS) Rising levels of nitrogen pollution in the atmosphere can threaten and harm plant diversity, warns…

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Number of forest hotspots rises in Indonesia

Jakarta, March 29 (IANS) A satellite observation on Tuesday detected that the number of forest hotspots in Indonesia has risen…

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Global warming hits Arctic sea ice wintertime extent

Washington, March 29 (IANS) Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low winter-time maximum extent for the second…

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Sunny Tuesday morning in Delhi

New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) It was a sunny Tuesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 18.6 degrees…

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Massive dust storm in Kathmandu; many injured, airport shut

By Anil Giri Kathmandu, March 28 (IANS) A massive dust storm swept through the Kathmandu Valley on Monday, due to…

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Greenland melting linked to shrinking Arctic sea ice

New York, March 28 (IANS) The disappearance of Arctic Sea ice due to massive climate change is causing the surface…

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Storm Katie forces flights away from London

London, March 28 (IANS) Storm Katie bringing gusts of up to 105 mph or about 170 km an hour battered…

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Fire in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans forest

Dhaka, March 28 (IANS) A fire has swept through Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest and one of the last…

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UN goal on global temperature unrealistic: Study

New York, March 28 (IANS) The historic agreement reached at last year's UN conference in Paris to hold the increase…

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Vidya Balan starts shooting for ‘Kahaani 2’ in West Bengal

Mumbai, March 28 (IANS) Actress Vidya Balan has started shooting for the upcoming second instalment of the Hindi mystery thriller…

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Human impact affects Earth’s global energy flow

London, March 28 (IANS) The impact that human beings have made on the Earth in terms of production and consumption…

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Micro-sanctuaries can help blackbuck survive in urban landscape

Bengaluru, March 28 (IANS) Providing wildlife refuges even in the form of small protected areas in the increasingly urbanised landscape…

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Clear Monday morning in Delhi

New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) It was a pleasant Monday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 16.5 degrees…

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500,000 ponds being built in rural areas: Modi

New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) With two successive years of poor monsoon, the rural job guarantee scheme will be used…

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17 Indian explorers spellbound by Antarctica

By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru, March 27 (IANS) Seventeen young Indians have returned from Antarctica with breath-taking stories of its icebergs,…

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Watershed programme in Tirunelveli brings back people to farming

By Venkatachari Jagannathan Tirunelveli, March 27 (IANS) Twenty-three-year-old G. Nelson Chinnadurai decided to handle the tilling machine and toil on…

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Singapore returns to ‘Car-Free Sunday’ for second run

Singapore, March 27 (IANS) Cyclists, walkers and joggers took to the roads yet again as Singapore's Car-Free Sunday returned for…

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