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Jal Shakti Ministry initiative: AI-enabled tech helps clean floating garba
Updated : 2 weeks, 2 days ago IST
Deepam Sheth, CEO of Potential Engineering, said this is the first time AI-enabled machines have been used to clean the Yamuna of solid waste, plastic debris, and organic matter using Mechanised Weed Harvesters, and the results are impressive.
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Tourists enjoy boat rides at Loktak Lake as normalacy returns in Manipur
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Tourists were seen enjoying boating at Loktak Lake, Northeast India's largest freshwater lake, famed for its unique Phumdis - floating islands made of vegetation, soil and organic matter.
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Pakistan's alarming soil decline signals a looming food security crisis
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Pakistan may not be named in the latest State of Food and Agriculture 2025 report, but the warning signs outlined by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) mirror the country's worsening agricultural realities.
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Yamuna river froth contains harmful organic matter that releases volatile
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Expert have raised concern over the toxic white froth in Yamuna river, stating that it contains harmful organic matter that releases volatile gases directly into the atmosphere.
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Study helps deploy pioneering method using rhenium as proxy for carbon
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Carbon, the main component of life on Earth, is continuously moving from living things down into the crust and back up into the atmosphere.
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Study: Amazonian 'black earth' may give clues to global forest regeneratio
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Millions of Amerindians living in today's Amazonia altered the formerly poor soil through numerous mechanisms between 450 BCE and 950 CE. Soils were enhanced with charcoal from low-intensity fires used for cooking and burning trash, animal bones, broken pottery, compost, and manure through m
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ED arrests sea cucumber smuggling racket kingpin in Tamil Nadu
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Sea cucumbers are crucial to the marine ecosystem as they consume decomposing organic matter and convert it into recyclable nutrients for other marine life.
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NITI Aayog task force releases report; suggests cow urine, dung to boost o
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The report was released by Ramesh Chand, Member (Agriculture), NITI Aayog in the presence of task force members, senior government officials and representatives from gaushalas.
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Bacteria can remove plastic pollution from lakes: Study
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): Some naturally-occurring lake bacteria grow faster and more efficiently on the remains of plastic bags than on natural matter like leaves and twigs. The bacteria break down the carbon compounds in plastic to use as food for their growth. The scientists said th
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Research finds solar-biomass hybrid system satisfies home heating needs in
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Maryland [US], May 31 (ANI): According to new research by the American Institute of Physics, adding an organic matter power source to a solar energy unit could provide 100 per cent heating for a single-story home during the coldest months of the year and help the environment.
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Global cancer risk comes from unregulated chemicals: Study
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): Whenever an organic matter is burned such as in a wildfire, a power plant, a car's exhaust, or in daily cooking, the combustion releases polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) -- a class of pollutants that are known to cause lung cancer.
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Newly discovered bacteria breaks down soil pollutants
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 21 (ANI): Researchers have found a new species of soil bacteria that is particularly adept at breaking down organic matter, including the cancer-causing chemicals that are released when coal, gas, oil and waste products are burned.
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