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15,700 Deaths In Europe In 2022 Linked To Heatwaves: UN's Climate Change Report
Record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have led to increased incidences of droughts, floods and heatwaves on a global scale, the World Meteorological Organisation's (WMO) annual report for 2022 said.
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Watch: Passenger Shot SpaceX Rocket Launch From A Plane Window
Passengers on a United Airlines flight captured an incredible video of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launch last year, which is now going viral on social media again.
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Scientists Test Einstein's Relativity On A Cosmological Scale And Discover Something Strange
Researchers will be able to use these statistical methods to continue tweaking general relativity, explore the limits of modifications, and pave the way to resolving some of the open challenges in cosmology.
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Our Solar System Likely to Remain Stable for the Next 1,00,000 Years, Study Says
Our solar system will be stable for the next 1,00,000 years according to researchers. Mathematicians from the University of Sofia have revealed that the orbits of bodies in our solar system are unlikely to be affected for a long period of time - nearly a 100 millennia. The researchers covered a smaller scale to improve the reliability of their find...
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NASA, ESA, JAXA to Soon Scale Up Documentation of Changes in Environment, Society on Earth
NASA in association with ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) will document and expand resources and understand a wider range of changes that are taking place in the environment and human society around the globe. The dashboard will include six areas of focus — atmosphere, agriculture, biomass, water and oce...
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'Mild and Moderate' Geomagnetic Solar Storms to Hit Earth Today: NOAA, British Met Office
Earth could be slammed by a series of small geomagnetic storms today (March 15), as per US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Met Office. Based on NOAA's five-level solar storm scale (G5 being the most extreme), the storm was classified as a G1 on Tuesday (March 15). The aurora borealis — a beautiful ligh...
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Delhi Pollution: IMD's Advanced Air Quality Early Warning System
Delhi Pollution Update: An advanced high-resolution air quality early warning system for the national capital and a separate one for the rest of the country has been operationalized by the IMD, the Ministry of Earth Sciences said on Wednesday. A very high-resolution city scale model will identify the air pollution hotspots, the ministry said.
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"Eyes Still Burning": Assam Villagers Live In Fear As Well Fire Continues
First a gas leak, then an inferno so massive that it can be seen from a distance of more than 30 km and now the tremors shaking the earth - Loknath Bora has not seen a disaster of this scale in 70 years of his life.
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Plastic Waste In Antarctica Reveals Scale Of Global Pollution
Plastic waste and toxic chemicals found in remote parts of the Antarctic this year add to evidence that pollution is spreading to the ends of the Earth, environmental group Greenpeace said on Thursday.
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Light Pollution Rises On A Global Scale
Satellite data showed Earth's artificially lit outdoor surface at night grew by about 2 percent annually in brightness and area from 2012 to 2016, researchers said on Wednesday, underscoring concerns about the ecological effects of light pollution on people and animals.
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China's Quantum Satellite Sends Unbreakable Code From Space
China has sent an unbreakable code from its satellite to the Earth, laying the foundation for building a hack-proof global quantum communication network, official media said today.
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Earthquake Measuring 6.1 Richter Scale Hits Near Iran Holy City
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit near Iran's Shiite Muslim holy city of Mashhad on Wednesday, local media reported.
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ISIS Dumped Bodies In Sinkhole, But Full Scale Of Killings Might Not Be Known For Years
Residents said the Islamic State pushed dozens of trailers and old cars into the hole before filling it with earth, though some said mass killings at the site continued until as recently as six months ago.
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Earthquake: Magnitude 3.2 Quake Hits Uttarakhand's Rudraprayag
An earthquake of medium intensity struck Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand on Saturday night. The district has been jolted by three temblors in less than a week. The tremors were also felt in some other parts of Uttarakhand. According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the magnitude of the earthquake was 3.2 on the Richter Scale and it occurred at the dep...
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Rajya Sabha Hails ISRO For Successful Launch Of Reusable Launch Vehicle
Rajya Sabha today hailed Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for successfully flight testing the Re-usable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), India's first winged aerospace vehicle capable of returning to the Earth after a space flight.
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15,700 Deaths In Europe In 2022 Linked To Heatwaves: UN's Climate Change Report
Record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have led to increased incidences of droughts, floods and heatwaves on a global scale, the World Meteorological Organisation's (WMO) annual report for 2022 said.
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Watch: Passenger Shot SpaceX Rocket Launch From A Plane Window
Passengers on a United Airlines flight captured an incredible video of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launch last year, which is now going viral on social media again.
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Scientists Test Einstein's Relativity On A Cosmological Scale And Discover Something Strange
Researchers will be able to use these statistical methods to continue tweaking general relativity, explore the limits of modifications, and pave the way to resolving some of the open challenges in cosmology.
-
Our Solar System Likely to Remain Stable for the Next 1,00,000 Years, Study Says
Our solar system will be stable for the next 1,00,000 years according to researchers. Mathematicians from the University of Sofia have revealed that the orbits of bodies in our solar system are unlikely to be affected for a long period of time - nearly a 100 millennia. The researchers covered a smaller scale to improve the reliability of their find...
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NASA, ESA, JAXA to Soon Scale Up Documentation of Changes in Environment, Society on Earth
NASA in association with ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) will document and expand resources and understand a wider range of changes that are taking place in the environment and human society around the globe. The dashboard will include six areas of focus — atmosphere, agriculture, biomass, water and oce...
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'Mild and Moderate' Geomagnetic Solar Storms to Hit Earth Today: NOAA, British Met Office
Earth could be slammed by a series of small geomagnetic storms today (March 15), as per US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Met Office. Based on NOAA's five-level solar storm scale (G5 being the most extreme), the storm was classified as a G1 on Tuesday (March 15). The aurora borealis — a beautiful ligh...
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Delhi Pollution: IMD's Advanced Air Quality Early Warning System
Delhi Pollution Update: An advanced high-resolution air quality early warning system for the national capital and a separate one for the rest of the country has been operationalized by the IMD, the Ministry of Earth Sciences said on Wednesday. A very high-resolution city scale model will identify the air pollution hotspots, the ministry said.
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"Eyes Still Burning": Assam Villagers Live In Fear As Well Fire Continues
First a gas leak, then an inferno so massive that it can be seen from a distance of more than 30 km and now the tremors shaking the earth - Loknath Bora has not seen a disaster of this scale in 70 years of his life.
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Plastic Waste In Antarctica Reveals Scale Of Global Pollution
Plastic waste and toxic chemicals found in remote parts of the Antarctic this year add to evidence that pollution is spreading to the ends of the Earth, environmental group Greenpeace said on Thursday.
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Light Pollution Rises On A Global Scale
Satellite data showed Earth's artificially lit outdoor surface at night grew by about 2 percent annually in brightness and area from 2012 to 2016, researchers said on Wednesday, underscoring concerns about the ecological effects of light pollution on people and animals.
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China's Quantum Satellite Sends Unbreakable Code From Space
China has sent an unbreakable code from its satellite to the Earth, laying the foundation for building a hack-proof global quantum communication network, official media said today.
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Earthquake Measuring 6.1 Richter Scale Hits Near Iran Holy City
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit near Iran's Shiite Muslim holy city of Mashhad on Wednesday, local media reported.
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ISIS Dumped Bodies In Sinkhole, But Full Scale Of Killings Might Not Be Known For Years
Residents said the Islamic State pushed dozens of trailers and old cars into the hole before filling it with earth, though some said mass killings at the site continued until as recently as six months ago.
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Earthquake: Magnitude 3.2 Quake Hits Uttarakhand's Rudraprayag
An earthquake of medium intensity struck Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand on Saturday night. The district has been jolted by three temblors in less than a week. The tremors were also felt in some other parts of Uttarakhand. According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the magnitude of the earthquake was 3.2 on the Richter Scale and it occurred at the dep...
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Rajya Sabha Hails ISRO For Successful Launch Of Reusable Launch Vehicle
Rajya Sabha today hailed Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for successfully flight testing the Re-usable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), India's first winged aerospace vehicle capable of returning to the Earth after a space flight.
