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#CycloneAmphan to Form and Intensify Over BoB; Threat Lingers Over North AP, Odisha and #WestBengal Coasts
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📷: (N Kanaka / BCCL, Visakhapatnam)
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📷: (N Kanaka / BCCL, Visakhapatnam)
After two weeks of intense debate, most model projections are now agreeing that a cyclone will form over the Bay of Bengal by Saturday.
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#CycloneAmphan
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#CycloneAmphan
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) confirmed on Thursday that the low-pressure area over the southeast Bay of Bengal is now well marked.
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#CycloneAmphan
As of April 2, the novel #coronavirus pandemic has spread across 203 countries and territories around the world, killing more than 47,200 individuals and infecting more than 9.4 lakh people.
Most, if not all transmission of the virus thus far, has been observed to have taken place when an individual has come into contact with respiratory droplets and droplet nuclei emitted by infected persons through coughing, sneezing, talking, and direct/indirect touching.
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Meanwhile, several other modes of transmission have also been discussed and studied since the outbreak of #COVID19.
#NovelCoronavirus to Survive Indian Summer, Reappear After: Researchers
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📸: (Tejal Pandey/TOI, BCCL, Mumbai)
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Despite many hoping that the deadly novel #coronavirus disease #COVID19 would fade away as the summer sets in, it has continued to spread across the globe in March.
Now, researchers involved in the study of the virus suggest that it is likely to survive the summer in India, and reemerge after mercury levels fall.
Is India's Hot Weather Keeping #Coronavirus at Bay? Experts Conflicted - by @deekshith_np
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Last month, the US President Donald Trump claimed in his speech that the new coronavirus disease COVID-19 would go away by April as the rising temperatures would kill the virus.
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Ever since he made this claim, the debate over the role of weather in the spread of the epidemic has dominated the public discourse.
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Fossil of Oldest Green Algae, Ancestor of Land Plants, Found in China
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📸: (Chad King/NOAA)
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The fossil is identified as a seaweed dated to around a billion years ago, making it the oldest green algae ever discovered.
The newly found specie named Proterocladus antiques (P. antiques) measures 1-2 millimetre in size, smaller than a rice grain.
Doctor who reported first novel #Coronavirus case, succumbs to It
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📸: Xinhua/Xiong Qi/IANS
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The 34-year-old doctor diagnosed #Coronavirus in patients who were admitted to Wuhan Central Hospital in Hubei province after consuming local seafood in December 2019.
The tests conducted by Dr. Wenliang confirmed that the coronavirus strain was unique, and not the same one behind SARS. Thus, the novel #Coronavirus was identified for the first time.
Two men in New Zealand and Spain created an "Earth sandwich" by placing slices of bread on precise points, either side of the planet, it was reported on Monday.
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📸: IANS
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The man behind the sandwich, Etienne Naude from Auckland, told the BBC that he wanted to make one for "years", but had struggled to find someone in Spain, on the other side of the globe.
He finally found Angel Sierra after posting on the online message board, Reddit. The two men used longitude and latitude to make sure they were precisely opposite.
Researchers have found that plant life is growing and expanding around Mount Everest and across the Himalayan region, as the area continues to experience the consequences of global warming.
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📸: IANS
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According to the study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, a research team from University of Exeter in UK used satellite data to measure the extent of subnival vegetation—plants growing between the treeline and snowline—in this vast area. @GlobalChangeBio
Little is known about these remote, hard-to-reach ecosystems, made up of short-stature plants (predominantly grasses and shrubs) and seasonal snow, but the study revealed they cover between five and 15 times the area of permanent glaciers and snow.
#LunarEclipse2020 | ‘Chandra Grahan’ on Decade's First Full Moon; Magh Mela Commences in Prayagraj
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📸: BCCL, Ahmedabad
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The decade’s first full moon is here and along with it come the decade’s first lunar eclipse. The ‘wolf moon eclipse’ is set to capture the attention of the eastern part of the world on Friday night.
In India, the eclipse will be visible across the country for more than four hours between 10:37 pm on January 10 and last till 2:42 am on January 11. Maximum eclipse is likely to be visible at around 12:41 am on January 11.
Officials in Australia fear thousands of koalas may be dead in an area of New South Wales ravaged in recent months by wildfires.
#AustralianFires #AustraliaFires #AustraliaBurns #koalas
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“It may well be up to 30% of the population in that region because up to 30% of their habitat has been destroyed," Australia's environment minister, @sussanley, told @ABCaustralia last Friday. "We’ll know more when the fires are calmed down and a proper assessment can be made.”
Up to 28,000 koalas lived in the region before the fires, The Associated Press reported.
Major flooding and drought events caused by abnormal monsoon patterns may have been responsible for wiping out powerful medieval dynasties across the Indian subcontinent 7 to 8 centuries ago, a new study has found.
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📸: Rahul Gayakwad/BCCL Kolhapur
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Evidence for the same was discovered by a group of geology experts from IIT Kharagpur, who spent years studying oxygen isotopes on the ancient stalagmites located in Meghalaya’s Wah Shikar Caves. @IITKgp
While the stalagmites are 1,000 years old, dating of the isotopes revealed evidence of heavy and low precipitation from 900 years ago, occurring b/w 1100 AD and 2012 AD. Further analysis showed abrupt shifts in Indian summer monsoon; this led to a huge impact on human societies.
Severe erosion on an Australian beach has uncovered thousands of potentially hazardous spiky World War II tank traps.
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📸: Facebook/Simon Jones/Save Stockton Beach
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The concrete blocks with protruding sharp poles stretch for miles along Stockton Beach near Newcastle, New South Wales. They were originally placed along the shore during the war as a defense device. Later they were dismantled, and some were used to help control erosion.
Unprecedented coastal erosion in August and September, when ocean swells battered the beach for five weeks, washed away more than 8 feet of sand and uncovered the chunks. It was the most severe erosion in 20 years.
Israeli researchers have developed bacteria fed only with carbon dioxide, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in central Israel reported on Wednesday. @WeizmannScience
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📸: IANS
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@WeizmannScience These bacteria, which build the entire biomass of their body from the carbon in the air, may help develop future technologies that reduce greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and fight global warming, the Xinhua news agency reported.
According to the study, published in the journal @CellCellPress, these bacteria were completely weaned off sugar, after a nearly decade-long process.
How can we ensure that our bodies fight contaminants and keep us healthy? Experts say the best way is to eat well. The Weather Channel brings you some tips to include pollution-fighting food in your diet.
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▶️1: The most critical elements to include in your diet are Vitamin C and Vitamin E. They are body’s first line of defence in the battle against air pollution.
Eat fruits like lemon, kiwi, guava, orange, tomato and green leafy vegetables like cabbage, spinach, and broccoli to stock up on Vitamin C. You can choose to eat almonds and sunflower seeds and include spices like oregano, basil, and parsley in your diet for more Vitamin E.
Women in their 70s and 80s who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution experienced greater declines in memory and more Alzheimer's-like brain atrophy than their counterparts who breathed cleaner air, new research has revealed.
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"This is the first study to really show, in a statistical model, that air pollution was associated with changes in people's brains and that those changes were then connected with declines in memory performance," said study researcher Andrew Petkus, Assistant Professor, @USC
Previous research has suggested that fine particle pollution exposure increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. What scientists haven't known is whether PM2.5 alters brain structure and accelerates memory decline.
#Titan, the largest of Saturn’s 82 confirmed moons and the second-largest in our Solar System, has multiple surface features similar to that of planet Earth, according to a new study by @NASA scientists.
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@NASA The findings indicate that the two worlds may have been the products of the same geologic processes. A team led by Rosaly Lopes, a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, conducted a research to develop the first global geologic map of Titan.
The map was created using data from NASA's Cassini mission, which operated between 2004 and 2017 and performed more than 120 flybys of Titan. Cassini's radar imager penetrated Titan's opaque atmosphere of nitrogen and methane.
#ChhathPuja2019 | Pictures of thousands of devotees in Delhi offering Chhath prayers while standing knee-deep in toxic foam in Yamuna river have not only shocked the nation, but the entire world.
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📸: IANS
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As devotees walked into the white froth over the weekend, one could have almost mistaken it for a snowy lake. But it was actually industrial toxin-laced water, where many were forced to offer prayers to the sun god, who was almost invisible anyway due to the heavy pollution.
#ChhathPuja2019 | The 855-mile Yamuna river fulfills three quarters of Delhi's water needs. Hundreds of polluting industrial units pollute the river everyday, regardless of the fact.
📸: IANS
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In addition, the presence of #whales also promotes the growth of phytoplankton, microscopic marine creatures that contribute at least 50% of oxygen to our atmosphere by capturing about 40% of all CO2 produced: equivalent to 4 Amazon forests’ worth.
#Thread | Here's how climate-induced changes in plant behavior are hurting local economies across India.
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1⃣ In #Uttarakhand, increasingly warmer winters are making #Rhododendrons bloom earlier than usual; during February-March instead of its usual schedule of March-May.
📸 Ssteaj - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
📸 Ssteaj - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
The season is not the best time for #Rhododendrons, because late winter rains in February-March wash away the blooms, affecting local population dependent on making juice, jams and jellies from the flowers.
#ClimateChange
#ClimateChange
.@UN report warns that cities and regions in Asia, middle-east and Africa could see millions of premature deaths by 2050 if the nations fail to drastically scale up environmental protection measures.
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Flagging the deadly impact of #AirPollution and #WaterPollution that annually claims at least nine million lives globally, a new @UN report calls for urgent action to save humanity from the disastrous consequences of environmental degradation.
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#UNEA4
The report warns that #WaterPollution alone will become the number one cause of death in the world by 2050.
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We celebrate #WorldWildlifeDay on March 3, let's take a look at the major threat to marine species and wildlife - noise pollution.
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Humans are social animals, yet, we often fret about our noisy neighbours. And then there are those who cannot complain even if they want to: plants and animals. As we get comfortable in sound-proof glass cabins, these neighbours of ours do not have the luxury to do so.
Does noise cause mass stranding events?
In January 2016, more than 80 pilot whales stranded mysteriously on a beach in Tamil Nadu. Though it was unusual for Indians, such incidents have become increasingly common across the globe.
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In January 2016, more than 80 pilot whales stranded mysteriously on a beach in Tamil Nadu. Though it was unusual for Indians, such incidents have become increasingly common across the globe.
#WorldWildlifeDay #WorldWildlifeDay2019
In 2018, scientists announced that three bird species vanished from the Earth for good, and more species on the brink could disappear forever in 2019.
Dissimilar to mass extinctions in the past, our current extinction crisis is almost solely caused by humans — specifically activities that cause loss of habitat, introduce alien species and contribute to the changing climate.
