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Environmental officials urge 'Harry Potter' fans to not leave socks at Dob
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
This comes after fans left so many socks at the Dobby memorial that it started to become an environmental concern for Freshwater West Beach.
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Dead fish breathes new life into the evolutionary origin of fins and limbs
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 1 (ANI): A trove of fossils in China, unearthed in rock dating back some 436 million years, has revealed for the first time that the mysterious galeaspids, a jawless freshwater fish, possessed paired fins.
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J-K: Wular Lake wears festive look with extraction of water chestnuts in f
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Bandipora (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 29 (ANI): The Wular Lake in Jammu and Kashmir, which is known to be one of the largest freshwater lakes in South Asia, has a festive look with a large number of locals extracting chestnuts, according to a report.
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Scientists demonstrate how injuries are converted to regeneration signals
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): The phenomenon of regeneration was discovered over 200 years ago in the freshwater polyp Hydra. Until now, however, it was largely unclear how the orderly regeneration of lost tissues or organs is activated after injury. In its investigations of Hydra, an
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A vicious cycle of oxygen loss threatens water quality in lakes: Study
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 26 (ANI): According to a new Virginia Tech Study, Sticky with sediment, the bottom waters of lakes are more than their deepest, darkest layer. They bury massive portions of the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus found in runoff rolling in from the land.
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HCL commits USD 15 million to address global freshwater insecurity
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Davos [Switzerland], May 25 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Water security has never been more urgent. With the global population set to hit 8.5 billion by 2030, pressure is increasing on the world's limited supply of fresh water. By 2030, the global demand for water will have exceeded sustainable
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Researchers reveal bacteria can generate electricity from methane
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Houlahan (Nijmegen) [Netherlands], April 13 (ANI): Researchers from Radboud University have demonstrated that methane-consuming bacteria generate power in the lab. Generating power while purifying the environment of greenhouse gases should be achievable using bacteria.
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Freshwater mussels can inhibit bacterial diseases, finds study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Helsinki [Finland], April 4 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla found brown trout better survived a Flavobacterium disease outbreak if the fish had larvae of freshwater pearl mussel in their gills.
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Study finds climate change lowers nutrition, increases toxicity at base of
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 25 (ANI): According to research from Dartmouth College and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, climate change impacts on freshwater systems can lower nutrition and increase toxicity at the base of the food web.
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New method to detect impact of sea level rise
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], August 7 (ANI): A new simple, Inexpensive and fast method to analyse sulfur isotopes, which can be used to help investigate chemical changes in environments such as oceans, and freshwater rivers and lakes, has recently been developed by the University of Adelaide scient
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Scientists develop new method to detect impact of sea level rise
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], August 3 (ANI): University of Adelaide scientists have developed a new simple, inexpensive and fast method to analyse sulfur isotopes, which can be used to help investigate chemical changes in environments such as oceans, and freshwater rivers and lakes.
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China's projects on Yarlung Tsangpo River to adversely impact India, Bangl
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 27 (ANI): As China continues with hydropower projects on the Yarlung Tsangpo River, concerns are rising in the lower riparian nations regarding the impact of these projects on the river, which is one of the crucial sources of freshwater for India and Bangladesh.
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