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Feb 2015

Feb 05, 2017

12th Century Sculptures

Several ancient sculptures have been unearthed from an archaeological site in Bijbehara area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
The artefacts, belonging to the Kashmir school of sculpture, have been taken to SPS Museum here for preservation.
More findings are expected from the archaeologically rich area.

Feb 02, 2017

Lost Continent under Mauritius

Scientists have confirmed the existence of a lost continent under the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius that was left-over by the break-up of the supercontinent, Gondwana.
The piece of crust, which was subsequently covered by young lava during volcanic eruptions on the island, seems to be a tiny piece of ancient continent, which broke off from the island of Madagascar, when Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica split up and formed the Indian Ocean.

Jan 19, 2017

2016 Hottest Year Ever Recorded

2016 was the hottest year on record, setting a new high for the third year in a row, with scientists firmly putting the blame on human activities that drive climate change.
The final data for 2016 was released by the three key agencies – the UK Met Office and NASA and NOAA in the US – and showed 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have been in this century.
Direct temperature measurements stretch back to 1880, but scientific research indicates the world was last this warm about 115,000 years ago and that the planet has not experienced such high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for 4m years.

Jan 15, 2017

E-Waste in East and South-East Asia Jumps

A new UNU research shows that the volume of discarded electronics in East and South-East Asia jumped almost two-thirds between 2010 and 2015, and e-waste generation is growing fast in both total volume and per capita measures.

Jan 13, 2017

Almost 75% of Japan's Biggest Coral Reef Has Died

Almost 75% of Japan’s biggest coral reef has died, according to a report that blames its demise on rising sea temperatures caused by global warming.
As per the Japanese environment ministry 70% of the Sekisei lagoon in Okinawa had been killed by a phenomenon known as bleaching.
The plight of the reef, located in Japan’s southernmost reaches, has become extremely serious in recent years.
A survey of 35 locations in the lagoon last November and December found that 70.1% percent of the coral had died.

Northeast US Temperatures are Decades Ahead

Results of a new study suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2-degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

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