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Record rains last year had Bengaluru’s streets water-logged, houses flooded and sewers overflowing. Harvesting this would have helped the city avert any summer water crisis. A city blessed with an annual average rainfall of 787 mm even without a record year, could have avoided the perennial struggle to meet its yearly water demand of 18 TMCft. A robust rainwater harvesting

Record rains last year had Bengaluru’s streets water-logged, houses flooded and sewers overflowing. Harvesting this would have helped the city avert any summer water crisis. A city blessed with an annual average rainfall of 787 mm even without a record year, could have avoided the perennial struggle to meet its yearly water demand of 18 TMCft. A robust rainwater harvesting

Meteorites have had its fair share of triggering mass extinctions through Earth's history. Its impact generates atmospheric dust and debris covering the Earth's surface, and has long been perceived to have the power to erase life in the entire planet once more, depending on how big it is.

The minerology of the rocks that a meteorite hits, rather than the size of the impact, determines how deadly an impact it will have.

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GANDHINAGAR : Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar is inviting applications for its Masters in Cognitive Science and Society and Culture programs.The M.Sc. (Cognitive Science) (https://cogs.iitgn.ac.in/cogs-msc/) and M.A. (Society and Culture)

IIT Gandhinagar is inviting applications for its Masters in Cognitive Science and Society and Culture programmes. The last date to apply is January 20. Check all the details and perks of the unique interdisciplinary programmes here.

As many as 600 elephants have been killed due to electrocution in India from 2009-10 to 2019-20 with Karnataka accounting for 116 of the deaths, second only to Odisha (117). Officials warn that constant pressure of development work in elephant ranges and climate change may pose more challenges to conservation.

A new study has found that the minerology of the rocks that a meteorite hits, rather than the size of the impact, determines how deadly an impact it

Bengaluru’s once-profuse bird populations may have been decimated by urbanisation but scientists have found that resident waterbird populations are on the rise.