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Escobar's feral hippos destroying Columbia's aquatic ecosystem: Study
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bogota [Columbia], Feb 2 (ANI): The aquatic ecosystem of Columbia is being ravaged by the invasive hippo populations that are descendants of the animals that were owned by the feared drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
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Study reveals ill effects of marijuana for heart patients
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 25 (ANI): Physicians are worried after they found traces of Marijuana in a number of heart patients. While smoking tobacco leads to one in every four cardiovascular disease-related deaths, the cause of similar effects from using marijuana is still not entirely kno
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Marijuana affects heart more than one can think of, reveals study
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 21 (ANI): With traces of marijuana being found in a number of heart patients, physicians worry about the safe usage of the substance considering more States have legalised it for recreational and medicinal use raising its usage level in the past few years.
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Cases of injuries and deaths might increase due to climate change: Study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): Unusual temperature fluctuations resulting from climate change can lead to 2135 additional injury-related deaths each year in the US as predicted by a study which was carried out by researchers from Imperial College London, Columbia, and Harvard.
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Prenatal exposure to flame retardants may be associated with reading probl
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 12 (ANI): A recent study by researchers of Columbia University suggests that prenatal exposure to flame retardants can increase the risk of developing reading problems.
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Study detects US homicide victims testing positive for marijuana doubled o
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Jan 9 (ANI): Prevalence of marijuana detected in victims of homicides had almost doubled over a period of 12 years, according to a recently published study.
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Smart headphones to save pedestrians from getting run over by vehicles
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Columbia [USA], Dec 28 (ANI): Walking the streets while wearing headphones can put people at a massive risk of getting run over by vehicles. In an effort to avert any such freak accidents in the future, a group of scientists is developing special earphones that alert their users of approachi
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Major earthquake with 6.3 magnitude strikes west of Port Hardy in Canada
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Ontario [Canada], Dec 25 (ANI): An earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3 on the Richter Scale struck the west coast of Port Hardy in British Columbia, Canada, on Tuesday.
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6.0 magnitude earthquake rattles Canada; no tsunami warning issued
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], Dec 24 (ANI): An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of Canada's westernmost province of British Columbia, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Monday.
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K'taka Congress MLA Tanveer Sait continues to be critical, is in ICU
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Mysuru (Karnataka) [India], Nov 18 (ANI): Karnataka Congress legislator Tanveer Sait continues to be critical and is under continuous monitoring in the ICU of Columbia Asia Hospital.
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Columbia University's Urban works innovation challenge for start-ups in In
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] Nov 05 (ANI/NewsVoir): Columbia Global Centers, Mumbai announces the launch of the Urban Works Innovation Challenge 2019-2020 for transforming India's cities into safe and sustainable places through technical innovation.
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Washington: 1 killed, 8 injured in two shooting incidents
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], Sept 20 (ANI): One person was killed and eight others suffered injuries in two shooting incidents on late Thursday in Washington, police said.
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