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While India Is On Lockdown, Olive Ridley Turtles Start Nesting On Odisha Coast

    With the reduction in pollution levels due to lockdown amidst coronavirus outbreak, marine life is reviving and recouping with peace. Sea turtles of the Olive Ridley breed have arrived happily ashore to mass nest at the 6 km long Rushikulya beach in Ganjam district of Odisha in the …

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Ozone layer heals as humans stay indoors amid coronavirus outbreak

Ozone layer heals as humans stay indoors amid coronavirus outbreak

New Delhi : The Ozone layer above Antarctica has registered a significant recovery as it healed to create a positive global wind movement. A new study suggests the Montreal Protocol – the 1987 agreement to stop producing ozone depleting substances (ODSs) – could be responsible for pausing, or even reversing, some …

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7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes near Russia’s Kuril islands; no casualties reported

As per the US Geographical Survey, Kuril Islands of Russia was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 on Wednesday. The Russian island was hit at a depth of around 56.7 kilometers, that is around 1400 kilometers north-east of Japan’s Sapporo. However, no casualties were reported.  There was a tsunami …

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South Africa launches World's largest radio telescope

South Africa launches World’s largest radio telescope

A bigger level space project to unlock cosmic mysteries from dark energy to exploring extraterrestrial life has got an encouragement recently. To boost the study, a 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope was inaugurated in Carnarvon, South Africa. A sum equal to about 23 billion rupees in Indian currency has been spent …

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Israeli Company is gearing up to land its Spacecraft on the Moon

Israeli Company is gearing up to land its Spacecraft on the Moon

An Israeli company dealing in space voyage is attempting to launch in 2018 year end, it is claimed. The private company SpaceIL and the government-controlled Israel Aerospace Industries will be launching their unmanned craft in December, it is claimed. Thus, Israel would become the fourth country to enter in the club …

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Air Quality worsens in metro cities of India

Air Quality worsens in metro cities of India, Delhi tops the list

Though India has made a lot of progress in improving its air quality, average nationwide levels of major air pollutants have dropped by between 25–45 per cent in India over the last few years. The Central Pollution Control Board has now monitored four air pollutants which are responsible for worsening …

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ISS deploys a 100 kg Spacecraft to clean up space junk in orbits of Earth

ISS deploys a 100 kg Spacecraft to clean up space junk orbiting the Earth

International Space Station(ISS) has deployed a satellite for testing solutions in clearing up space garbage. It is expected to begin experiments in orbit soon. Deployed on June 20, 2018, it is named as the RemoveDebris mission. It will be one of the largest ever satellite deployed from the Space Station. It had …

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