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Oct 19, 2019

World's Fastest Ant Sprints The Equivalent Of a 1-Second 200-Meter Dash

The Saharan silver ant is officially the fastest of the world's 12,000 known ant species, clocking 855 millimeters per second.
The six-legged sprinter covers 108 times its body length per second, a feat topped only by two other creatures: the Australian tiger beetle and the California coastal mite.
To run 100 times his body length as quickly, the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, would need to sprint the 200-meter dash in less than a second.
Saharan silver ant hits top speed racing at midday across desert sands that reach 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit), the researchers reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

Oct 17, 2019

NGT Directs Railways To Evolve Mechanism To Control Pollution

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed railways to evolve an appropriate mechanism to control pollution during loading and unloading of goods.
It expressed concern over the pollution caused during loading and unloading of goods such as cement at railway siding.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar was hearing a plea against pollution in and around railway godown in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Record Melting Sees Swiss Glaciers Shrink 10% In Five Years

Glaciers in Switzerland have shrunk 10% in the past five years, a rate that has never been seen before in over a century of observations.
The summer 2019 heatwave saw glacier melt rates break records, leading to huge losses in ice volume, reports the Cryospheric Commission (CC) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
Glaciers around the world are melting due to climate change, and this latest research shows the extent of the problem in Switzerland.

Oct 13, 2019

Annual Ganges River Dolphin Census Begins

The annual Ganges river dolphin census, undertaken by World Wide Fund for Nature-India in collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department along about 250-km-long riverine stretch of Upper Ganga between Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary and Narora Ramsar site began in Bijnor.
Unlike previous years 2018, when direct counting method was used, in 2019 the tandem boat survey method is being used.

Oct 12, 2019

Garbage Cafe Inaugurated In Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh Health Minister T S Singh Deo inaugurated a 'Garbage Cafe' in Ambikapur which will provide free food in exchange for plastic waste.
The cafe, situated in Ambikapur, which bagged the title of the second cleanest city in India, through the initiative, will provide impetus to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'plastic-free' India resolve.
The concept of this cafe is that people can get their plastic waste weighed and enjoy a warm meal in return.
The tagline of the cafe says, 'More the waste better the taste'. The cafe has been set up by Ambikapur Municipal Corporation (AMC ).

Oct 11, 2019

'Plastic-eating' Bacteria Discovered by Indian Scientists

Researchers have discovered two strains of 'plastic-eating' bacteria from the wetlands of Greater Noida, an advance that may lead to eco-friendly alternative clean-up methods for plastic waste worldwide.
The bacterial strains discovered by researchers at Shiv Nadar University in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, have the potential to decompose polystyrene -- a key component in Single-Use Plastic (SUP) items such as disposable cups, cutlery, toys, packaging materials etc.
The bacterial species namely Exiguobacterium sibiricum strain DR11 and Exiguobacterium undae strain DR14 were isolated from the wetlands adjoining the university.

Huge New 'Shark Toothed' Dinosaur Found

THE LAND near Ban Saphan Hin in central Thailand is dusted with thin reddish soil where local farmers plant corn and tapioca. But more than 113 million years ago, this region hosted ancient floodplains that were terrorized by a fearsome dinosaur with shark-like teeth.
Described in the journal PLOS One, the newfound predator—called Siamraptor suwati—is the most complete dinosaur of its type and age ever found in Southeast Asia.
The bones of the 25-foot beast add to a string of major dinosaur finds from the region, and they reveal new insight into how a major group of predatory dinosaurs spread across the ancient world.

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