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Ants' behaviour does not change as temperature rises: Study
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
In a recent study, researchers at North Carolina State University discovered that ants did not modify their behaviour in response to rising temperatures and remained in suboptimal microhabitats even when ideal ones were there. The discovery shows that ants may be unable to change their behav
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Bharat Nirman Mahotsav - A Celebration on Wheels
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 12 (ANI/NewsVoir): This is a road journey across leading construction hotspots in North India, culminating at bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2023 on 31 January 2023 at the India Expo Centre, Greater Noida. This journey will bring together the entire construction industry whic
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Research assesses severity of marine heatwaves impacting ocean ecosystems
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The severity of marine heatwaves (MHWs) that are increasingly impacting ocean ecosystems, including vulnerable coral reefs, has primarily been assessed using remotely sensed sea-surface temperatures (SSTs), without information relevant to heating across ecosystem depths.
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Scattered patches of green in urban parks can have an impact on biodiversi
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University discovered that biodiversity in large parks in urban environments can be influenced by smaller green areas nearby.
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Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) India organises a workshop on Climate A
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], January 6 (ANI/PRNewswire): Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) India in partnership with the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) conducted a workshop on Urban Heat Island (UHI) studi
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'Jaga Mission', a programme to upgrade 2,919 Odisha slums wins bronze at W
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
'Jaga Mission', an initiative by the Naveen Patnaik government to upgrade almost 3,000 slums in Odisha, has won Bronze for the second time at an awards show organised by World Habitat, in partnership with UN-Habitat.
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Odisha wins World Habitat Awards 2023 for Jaga Mission
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Odisha won the UN-Habitat's World Habitat Awards 2023 for Jaga Mission, a 5T initiative of the state.
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ORO partners with Prestige Lakeside Habitat
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 3 (ANI/ATK): With over 3500 apartments and villas, Prestige Lakeside Habitat Apartments (PLH) - one of the largest gated apartment communities in Bangalore has signed an MOU with ORO Proptech to offer apartment owners, who plan to rent their flats, a pr
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Study finds how virovory is enough to fuel physiological growth
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers discovered that a type of Halteria, which are tiny ciliates that live in freshwater habitats all over the world, may consume large quantities of infectious chloroviruses. For the first time, the team's laboratory tests have also demonstrated that a virus-only diet, or "virovory,"
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The Fragility of Habitat - A Solo Art Exhibition by Aarti Zaveri
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI/NewsVoir): Multi-disciplinary artist Aarti Zaveri announced a solo art exhibition curated by Robinson, titled 'The Fragility of Habitat'. The exhibition will showcase the artist's poetic engagement with the effects of human interference in nature. Curated
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Massive 'marimo' algae balls at risk from deadly winter sunburn
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Climate change could overexpose rare underwater "marimo" algae balls to sunlight, killing them off according to a new study at the University of Tokyo. Marimo are living fluffy balls of green algae. The world's largest marimo can be found in Lake Akan in Hokkaido, Japan's northern main isla
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Meeting of panel under Union forest ministry resolves to protect wildlife
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Protection of wildlife ad theyr habitats were among the key takeaways of a meeting of the Consultative Committee of Member of Parliament, under Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change was held on Friday in New Delhi.
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