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Chunk of India’s forests ‘missing’ after 27-year-delay to file reports | Analysis

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Chunk of India’s forests ‘missing’ after 27-year-delay to file reports | Analysis

In compliance with a February 19, 2024, Supreme Court order, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) uploaded the various State Expert Committee (SEC) reports on its website earlier in April. This interim order was in response to a public interest litigation challenging the constitutionality of the Forest (Conservation) Act Amendment (FCAA) 2023….

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Rocks with the oldest evidence of Earth’s magnetic field discovered

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Rocks with the oldest evidence of Earth’s magnetic field discovered

Geologists at MIT and Oxford University have found ancient rocks in Greenland that bear the oldest remnants of Earth’s early magnetic field. The researchers determined that the rocks are about 3.7 billion years old and retain signatures of a magnetic field with a strength of at least 15 microtesla. The ancient field is similar in magnitude…

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The many benefits of coconut

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The many benefits of coconut

In addition to its food value, coconut has health, medicinal, and cosmetic benefits A paper published in 2014 by Uma Ahuja et al., in the journal Asian Agri-History, points out that the coconut palm is considered as a native of Malesia, a bio-geographical region that includes Southeast Asia (notably India), Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, and several Pacific Island groups….

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Where shall the poor go for a kidney transplant in Kerala?

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Where shall the poor go for a kidney transplant in Kerala?

All over the world, kidney disease and kidney failure are most prevalent in the poor and economically underprivileged. About 50,000 or more patients are on dialysis in Kerala for terminal kidney failure. Being on dialysis is never a permanent solution to kidney failure. Fraught with several complications and lethal infections the yearly mortality rate in…

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How do birds fly in a coordinated and seemingly effortless fashion?

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How do birds fly in a coordinated and seemingly effortless fashion?

Part of the answer about how birds fly in a coordinated and effortless way lies in precise, and previously unknown, aerodynamic interactions, mathematicians have found. The researchers found that flow-mediated interactions between neighbours are, in effect, spring-like forces that hold each member in place. However, these ‘springs’ act in only one direction — a lead bird…

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Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by mid-century: report

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Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by mid-century: report

The researchers called for a “truly integrated approach” to safeguard biodiversity in the coming decades. Representational | Photo Credit: MUSTAFAH KK Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by the mid-century, a new research has found. Studying changes in land-use patterns and their impacts on biodiversity, an international team of researchers found…

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Musk’s xAI is raising $6 billion from Sequoia and others

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Musk’s xAI is raising billion from Sequoia and others

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is raising $6 billion at a valuation of $18 billion. | Photo Credit: Reuters Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is raising $6 billion at a valuation of $18 billion, according to a report by The Information. The funding round will see participation from Sequoia Capital and Future Ventures,…

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Longer-lasting ozone holes over Antarctica expose seal pups and penguin chicks to much more UV

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Longer-lasting ozone holes over Antarctica expose seal pups and penguin chicks to much more UV

Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink. But over the last four years, even as the hole has shrunk it has persisted for an unusually long time. Our new research found that instead of closing up during November it has stayed open well into December. This…

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Argentine scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur

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Argentine scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur

Argentine palaeontologist Sebastian Rozadilla holds a fossil of the Chakisaurus nekul, an newly-discovered herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 90 million years ago in the Patagonia region, at the Buenos Aires’ Natural Science museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina April 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Palaeontologists from Argentina announced the discovery of a new medium-sized herbivorous…

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