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Sep 11, 2021

Iceland Creates Plant that Sucks Carbon Dioxide from Air and Turns it into Rock

The world's largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turning it into rock started running in Iceland.
The plant, named Orca, after the Icelandic word "orka" meaning "energy", consists of four units, each made up of two metal boxes, similar in appearance to the containers used for maritime transport.
Constructed by Switzerland's Climeworks and Iceland's Carbfix, when operating at capacity the plant will draw 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air every year, according to the companies.
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that equates to the emissions from about 870 cars.

Sep 10, 2021

Paleontologists Find New Predatory Dinosaur in Brazil

Paleontologists in Brazil have found fossil fragments from a new species of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur that walked the Earth during the Cretaceous period.
The newly-discovered dinosaur lived in what is now southeastern Brazil some 70 million years ago (Late Cretaceous epoch).
Dubbed Kurupi itaata, the species was a type of abelisaurid, a group of bipedal predators that thrived on the ancient southern supercontinent Gondwana.
Its fossilsied remains were found in the municipality of Monte Alto in western São Paulo state.

Sep 09, 2021

Dinosaur Footprints Found in Rajasthan

In a major discovery, footprints of three species of dinosaurs have been found in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district, proving the presence of the giant reptiles in the western part of the state. The footprints are 200 million years old.
The footprints, made in the sediment or silt of the seashore, later become permanently stone-like. They belong to three species of dinosaurs — Eubrontes cf. giganteus, Eubrontes glenrosensis and Grallator tenuis.

Sep 08, 2021

India's First Dugong Conservation Reserve to Come up in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu state government has announced to set up India's first dugong conservation reserve at the northern part of the Palk Bay. Dugongs are commonly known as sea cows. According to Wildlife Institute of India (WII) estimates, only 200-250 Dugongs are left in the wild, of which 150 are found in the Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar in Tamil Nadu.
The reserve will span the northern part of the Palk Bay from Adiramapattinam to Amapattinam. The reserve will cover an area of more than 500 sq km.
Marine biologists and conservationists have long demanded a reserve as the population of dugongs, as known as sea cows, in Indian waters has been dropping to dangerous levels.
According to Wildlife Institute of India (WII) estimates, only 200-250 Dugongs are left in the wild, of which 150 are found in the Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar in Tamil Nadu, among the last surviving natural habitats for dugongs in the world.

Sep 07, 2021

One in Three Trees Face Extinction in Wild

According to a new assessment, at least 30% of the world's tree species face extinction in the wild.
They range from well-known oaks and magnolias to tropical timber trees.
Experts say 17,500 tree species are at risk - twice the number of threatened mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles combined.
Conservation groups are calling for urgent protection efforts amid threats such as deforestation, logging and climate change.
"We have nearly 60,000 tree species on the planet, and for the first time we now know which of these species are in need of conservation action, what are the greatest threats to them and where they are," said Dr. Malin Rivers of the charity Botanic Gardens Conservation International in Kew, London.

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