Fast-melting Glacier Can Change World's Coastlines
A new study has revealed that a vast ice sheet in northeast Greenland has begun a phase of speeded-up ice loss, contributing to destabilization that will cause global sea-level rise.
A team of scientists have found that since 2012 warmer air and sea temperatures have caused the Zachariae Isstrom ice sheet to "retreat rapidly along a downward-sloping, marine-based bed.
The Zachariae Isstrom glacier holds enough water to trigger a half-meter rise in ocean levels around the world.
Due to a fall in foreign currency assets by $2.4 billion. Latest data from RBI showed that the foreign exchange reserves fell $1.9 billion to $351.7 billion for the week ended November 6.
NCAER Lowers GDP Forecast
NCAER marginally lowered the GDP forecast at 7.4 per cent because of slowdown in agriculture due to deficient monsoon.
As per NCAER, the industrial growth continues to gather strength while the outlook for the services remains mixed.
The Finance Ministry had pegged the growth rate for the financial year 2015-16 at around 8.1-8.5 per cent.
Russia has been provisionally suspended from track and field over accusations of state-sponsored doping as the IAAF scrambled to salvage the sport's credibility just nine months out from the Rio Olympics.
Russia will not be entitled to host the 2016 World Race Walking Cup (Cheboksary) and 2016 World Junior Championships.