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34 pc of coastline under varying degrees of erosion for past 28 years: Gov
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said that about 34 per cent of the coastline in India is under varying degrees of erosion for the past 28 years.
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Study reveals remote sensing supports track of carbon storage in mangroves
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], June 21 (ANI): A question that always arises that how much amount of carbon is stored by Mangrove forests globally? Recently, a group of researchers from Japan have found a new model that is used for remote sensing of environmental conditions and to determine the productivity
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HarperCollins presents THE VORTEX by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] May 25 (ANI/PR Newswire): HarperCollins India is delighted to announce the book THE VORTEX: The True Story of History's Deadliest Storm and the Liberation of Bangladesh by History's Deadliest Storm. In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely popu
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Cyclone Asani to intensify in next 24 hours, Bangladesh issues alert
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], May 8 (ANI): Bangladesh's Meteorological Department on Sunday issued an alert over an intensifying storm in the Bay of Bengal, which is moving northwestwards towards its coastline.
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Japan repositions radar system as China ramps up military presence in Asia
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 30 (ANI): Tokyo protests the continuous military ramp up by China near Japan's coastlines and a group of disputed islets and is now repositioning its mobile radar system in the region due to the threat posed by Beijing.
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Strong 5.9-magnitude quake rattles Chilean coastline
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Santiago [Chile], January 8 (ANI/Sputnik): A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit off the Chilean coastline on Saturday morning, the US Geological Survey said.
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VS Pathania appointed as new Indian Coast Guard chief
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): Ace chopper pilot Virender Singh Pathania has been appointed as the new Director-General of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) which is in charge of the security of over 7,000 km-long coastline of the country.
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7.6 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, tsunami warning issued
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], December 14 (ANI): Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning for coastlines near the Flores Sea in the country after an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale was registered 95 km north of Maumere, Indonesia at 03:20:26 GMT on Tuesday reported Sputnik.
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ISRO has requisite technologies to help protect small island states from i
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 8 (ANI): Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said that ISRO has the requisite technologies and expertise to provide information on advance warning of cyclones, monitoring of coastlines and coral reefs using space-based inputs to support small island states
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Cyclone Jawad: Odisha prohibits fishing activity
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], December 3 (ANI): In view of the impending cyclonic storm 'JAWAD', the Odisha Government prohibited fishing activities within the territorial waters along the entire coastline of Odisha State and Chilika lake by all types of fishing vessels (Mechanized, Motorize
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Study reveals extreme sea levels to become much more common worldwide as E
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 1 (ANI): A new study has predicted that because of rising temperatures, extreme sea levels along coastlines the world over will become 100 times more frequent by the end of the century in about half of the 7,283 locations studied.
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Large parts of Pak's Karachi suffer from power outage again
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): After last week's major power outage in Karachi, the coastline city of Pakistan's Sindh province remained without power for several hours on Thursday night, making life tough for the citizens amid the rising heat.
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