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Muraleedharan to visit Congo, represent India at Three Basins Summit
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan will be on a two-day visit to Congo to participate in the 'Second Summit of Three Basins for Biodiversity Ecosystem and Tropical Forests'
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Newly discovered "margarita snails" are bright yellow coloured
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
This chain of tropical islands is home to the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States, as well as other creatures found nowhere else on the planet. One of these is a recently discovered bright yellow slug named Margaritaville.
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Thousands without power as storm 'Lee' approaches northeast US, Canada
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Tens of thousands of people were left without power as post-tropical storm 'Lee' barrelled towards northeast United States and areas in neighbouring Canada, bringing heavy rainfall and snapping power lines, Al Jazeera reported.
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Study highlights significance of grasses in preventing climate change
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
According to recent research small grasses, in addition to trees, have a significant role in carbon capture that is more significant than previously thought.
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Study sheds light on role of grasses in climate change control
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The rising impact of global warming has led initiatives to counteract dangerous trends, often by planting trees to trap and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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US: Hurricane Hilary enters California amid earthquake; heavy rainfall, fl
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Tens of millions of people are under a tropical storm warning, the first of its kind issued for Southern California. Heavy rainfall and “catastrophic flooding” are expected in parts of Arizona and Nevada.
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US: Southern California braces for Hurricane Hilary
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
warning issued indicates that tropical storm conditions are possible within the coverage area over the next 36 hours. This covered the area from the California-Mexico border to the Santa Monica area and includes Catalina Island.
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Typhoon Khanun: 1 killed, another missing in South Korea
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
At least one person died and another went missing after tropical Storm Typhoon Khanun hit the southeastern city of South Korea's Daegu on Thursday amid the heavy rain.
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Japan: Severe tropical storm Khanun returns to Okinawa, chances of floods,
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Strong tropical storm Khanun is not anticipated to go westward any longer, as a result of which there is a strong likelihood of life-threatening landslides and floods, NHK World reported citing the weather officials.
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Research reveals tropical trees use social distancing to maintain biodiver
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
In a square mile of tropical forest, scientists often struggle to grasp how such a diversity of species can coexist. Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin revealed new insights into the answer in a paper published in Science by discovering a fundamental property of the spatial d
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Bees probably originated from ancient supercontinent earlier than suspecte
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A new study reveals that the origin of bees is tens of millions of years older than most earlier estimations. Researchers from Washington State University and their colleagues have dated the bee's ancestry back more than 120 million years to the Gondwanan supercontinent, which included the
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Typhoon Doksuri sweeps across Pacific Ocean; poses risk to Philippines, Ta
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
According to the United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Typhoon Doksuri began as a tropical storm in the Western Pacific on Sunday morning.
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