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Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated seas 470 million years ago
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Discoveries at a major new fossil site in Morocco suggest giant arthropods - relatives of modern creatures including shrimps, insects and spiders - dominated the seas 470 million years ago. Early evidence from the site at Taichoute, once undersea but now a desert, records numerous large "fre
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Delhi-based visual artist spreads awareness on menace of plastic waste
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], November 25 (ANI): Delhi-based visual artist Manveer Singh has installed a 15-feet Olive Ridley sea turtle artwork made out of plastic at Puri beach with an aim to make people aware of the ill-effects of plastic waste on the environment, especially the sea and t
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Study indicates global warming could reduce biodiversity in tropics
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 7 (ANI): New research by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that temperature can largely explain why the greatest variety of aquatic life resides in the tropics but also why it has not always and, amid record-fast global warming, soon may not again.
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Dams along Mekong by China threatening farmers and fish in Southeast Asia:
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], April 8 (ANI): China's construction of large hydropower dams along the river to feed country's growing energy needs is causing problems downriver -- having devastating impacts on water availability and the fertile soil that feeds hundreds of millions of people in South
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Chinese dams release Mekong waters on Laos; pose threats to aquatic life
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Vientiane [Laos], April 8 (ANI): Chinese dams on the Mekong River have begun unleashing water during the river's normal dry season, posing threats to aquatic life in Laos, along with thousands of people living alongside the river in Southeast Asian country, according to a report by Radio Fre
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NGT emphasises on ensuring beaches remain fit for bathing, survival of aqu
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 3 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) expressed concern about coastal pollution and emphasized on the necessity of ensuring that coastal water at beach remains fit for bathing and survival of aquatic life and noted that sewage and industrial effluents are pollutin
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Karnataka: Fishermen struggling as waste disposal destroys aquatic life
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Shimoga (Karnataka) [India], Nov 28 (ANI): The fishermen in Shimoga city are struggling to survive as the water of the Tunga river has been contaminated following excessive disposal of waste and discharge of untreated sewage into the water body resulting in the extinction of most of the aqua
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17-year-old, Siddharth Pillai's patented modular artificial reef to revita
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] July 17 (ANI/NewsVoir): The Indian marine ecosystem has been under threat for long due to climate change, pollution and destructive fishing practices. As a result, aquatic species find it extremely difficult to survive.
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Dead fish seen after runoff from alcohol warehouse fire pollutes Kentucky
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kentucky [USA], July 8 (ANI): Dead fish were seen floating down Kentucky River, days after runoff from an alcohol warehouse fire polluted the water body, impacting the aquatic life.
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Your sunscreen pollutes beaches, harms aquatic life
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 19 (ANI): Applying sunscreen on your body may be good for your skin, but not so much for the fish, a new study has revealed.
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