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Earth Day: Steps Individuals Can Take In Planets Best Interest, According To Indian Scientists by Karan Kamble - Apr 22, 2021 12:12 PM Earth Day is celebrated every 22 April Snapshot What is the one new action or habit that one can adopt from today in Earths best interest? Heres what Indias scientists and environmentalists had to say. In 1968, humans recorded their first visit to another celestial body, the Moon, as part of the landmark Apollo 8 mission. Besides paving the way for the lunar lan...

Indian government’s development plans for the Andamans may endanger the world’s largest sea turtles The government wants to open Little Andaman and ‘release the area for deployment of strategic assets’. A leatherback sea turtle at a nesting site in the Little Andaman. | Adith Swaminathan/ Mongabay India A 58-page, undated “vision document” for the “sustainable development” of the Little Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal was produced by the NITI Aayog, a thin...

Leatherback turtles under threat as government considers ‘development’ in Little Andamans by Rosamma Thomas on 12 April 2021 Proposed development of the Little Andaman islands, if implemented, will pose a threat to nesting sites of the leatherback turtle. Five species of marine turtles are found in Indian waters. The leatherback is the largest of all living turtles and India and Sri Lanka are the only places in South Asia with large nesting populations. The island is also home to the Onge ...

Share This The FINANCIAL --  New mathematical model suggests that the easing of lockdown must be accompanied by wider and more effective use of control measures such as face masks even with vaccination, in order to suppress COVID-19 more quickly and reduce the likelihood of another lockdown. The model, developed by scientists at the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge, is published today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. It uses mathematical equations to provide general insi...

Henceforth, any land-use projects must be approved by Disaster Management Authority Bengaluru: The Expert Committee appointed to study landslide-hit regions of Western Ghats submitted its final report ‘Landslides in Western Ghats and Coastal Karnataka: Prevention and Mitigation Strategies’ to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa in Bengaluru on Thursday after conducting a detailed study on landslide prone areas. Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said that the Govt. had constituted th...

More Fun Than Fun: Learning How Fruit Flies Disperse – From a Tabletop 17/03/2021 L-R: Sudipta Tung, Sutirth Dey and Abhishek Mishra, the trio that created nomadic fruit flies in their lab in IISER Pune. Photo: Sutirth Dey. Spectacular advances in genetic technology in the past couple of decades have revolutionised our understanding of how different parts of the globe came to be occupied by Homo sapiens. We now have evidence that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa between 300,000 and...

In the Himalayas, land-use change is driving the loss of forest birds A new study suggests that forest species are largely not able to survive in cultivation areas. Rufous sibia, a forest specialist species, is under threat due to oak forest degradation. | Jagdish Negi / Mongabay Land-use changes in the western Himalayan forests, a global biodiversity hotspot with huge numbers of endemic species, have resulted in a massive decline in forest birds in the region, new research s...

Orissa HC constitutes committee on Olive Ridley turtle deaths Updated: Updated: 3-member committee will visit Gahirmatha and Rushikulya beaches, consult all stakeholders Share Article 3-member committee will visit Gahirmatha and Rushikulya beaches, consult all stakeholders The Orissa High Court on Friday ordered the constitution of a three-member committee for consultations with stakeholders and verifying compliance of earlier court orders on conservation of endangered Olive Ridley turtles. ...

The <b>Orissa High Court on Friday (26<sup>th</sup> February)</b> formed a three-member Panel, inter alia, to hold consultations with stakeholders and to suggest what steps need to be immediately taken- in the short ...

Machine Learning Used to Predict Where New Coronaviruses Might Develop Next February 17, 2021 A researcher for Brazils state-run Fiocruz Institute takes an oral swab sample from a bat captured in the Atlantic Forest, at Pedra Branca state park, near Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:28 0:00 Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) methods in an effort to predict which animals might devel...