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Wildlife & Biodiversity

Camera traps click ties between species in Sumatra

A Sunda Clouded Leopard. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
The traps, deployed for eight years as part of a study, recorded the haunts and habits of …
February 25, 2020
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Water

Delhi's Sangam Vihar needs to use its natural drainage to solve waterlogging

Water being pumped out of a water-logged street in Delhi's Sangam Vihar. Photo: CSE
There is a need to look at informal settlements like Sangam Vihar as part of a larger …
February 25, 2020
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Health

COVID-19: 'Need to address the unknown'
CHRISTIAN LINDMEIER is spokesperson of the World Health Organization
WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier's on why the UN health body doesn't consider …
February 26, 2020
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Science & Technology

Solar storms can hamper whales' navigation, cause them to strand: Study

California gray whales like these mothers and calves are 4.3 times more likely to strand themselves during a burst of cosmic radio static from a solar flare, further evidence that they navigate by Earth’s magnetic field. (Image: Nicholas Metheny NOAA)
Radio frequency noise created by solar outburst affects whales’ senses and prevents …
February 25, 2020
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Antarctica island loses 20% ice in 10 days, NASA images show

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Union budget 2020-21 - explained in 15 charts

Nirmala Sitharaman's budget has little to offer rural India. Allocation to several schemes were slashed below 2019-20 revised estimates 

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