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Climate change could double greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater lakes
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 19 (ANI): Every drop of freshwater contains thousands of different organic molecules that have previously gone unnoticed. By measuring the diversity of these molecules and how they interact with the environment around them, research has revealed an invisible world
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70 turtle hatchlings from two Assam temples released in Pobitora Wildlife
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Pobitora (Assam) [India] Sept 4 (ANI): With Assam being home to 20 species of freshwater turtles and tortoises out of 29 species present in India, about 70 hatchlings of the Black Softshell and Indian Softshell turtles which bred in the ponds of two temples in Assam have been released in the
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Manipur farmer transforms his life through fish farming
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Imphal (Manipur) [India], Aug 25 (ANI): The state of Manipur is home to the largest freshwater lake-the Loktak Lake. Fishery and aquaculture farming plays an important role in the socio-economic life of the people and the state.
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Assam: Baby elephant rescued by NDRF and state forest department
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Kamrup (Assam) [India], May 11 (ANI): A team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and state forest department rescued a baby elephant after it fell into the Deepor Beel freshwater lake on Friday.
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Rice husks can remove toxins from water
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 7 (ANI): A recent study has observed that rice husk can effectively remove microcystin (a toxin released by harmful algal blooms) that are increasingly occurring in the Great Lakes and other freshwater lakes around the world.
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Pharmaceutical residues in fresh water pose environmental risk
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 24 (ANI): A new research now finds that over the past two decades, concentrations of pharmaceuticals have increased in freshwater sources all over the world.
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Asian glaciers slowed by ice loss, claims study
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 14 (ANI): Asian glaciers are flowing more slowly in response to widespread ice loss, affecting freshwater availability downstream in India, Pakistan, and China, a new study has suggested.
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Floating Lab set up to monitor Manipur's Loktak Lake
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Imphal (Manipur) [India] Mar 9 (ANI): The Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Laboratory (IBSD), Imphal, set up a floating laboratory in northeast India's largest freshwater lake, Loktak to constantly monitor its water quality and eventually improve it.
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Manipur's Loktak Lake is now home to country's first-ever floati
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Imphal (Manipur) [India], Feb. 13 (ANI): Loktak lake, the largest freshwater lake in the country, has now become home to first of its kind loktak floating elementary school.
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River Monsters' host and extreme Angler Jeremy Wade to uncover the wo
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 8 (ANI-NewsVoir): Freshwater detective, biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade has spent three decades traveling the World's waterways in search of man-eaters that lurk beneath the surface of rivers and lakes in some of the most inhospitable locations in the wor
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