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ENVIRONMENT - August 2019

Aug 2019

Jul 01, 2020

SDMC Signs MoU to Generate Power from Waste at Okhla Landfill Site

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian Oil and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to set up a pilot project for 'Waste to Wealth Plant' at its Okhla landfill site.
The MoU was signed in the presence of Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of Power RK Singh, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal.
the project will address the problem of disposal of municipal solid waste. Under this project, the plant will process 50 tonnes per day of Refused Derived Fuel (RDF) segregated from municipal solid waste to produce Syn Gas. This Syn gas will be utilised to generate about 1MW electricity. "For this project, SDMC will provide one acre land in Okhla landfill site on lease to Indian Oil for setting up the plant. The south corporation will purchase the power generated from the plant at a mutually agreed rate.

Jun 30, 2020

Uttarakhand Develops India's First Lichen Park

The Forest Department of Uttarakhand has developed India's first Lichen Park in Munsyari (Munsiyari), Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand as a research centre with over 150 Lichen species – Jurassic Era plant. The development process of the 1.5 acres park began in 2019.
The park is developed with an aim to protect, conserve and cultivate the lichen, to provide employment to the locals and to educate the importance of lichens.
Lichen is a composite organism. It grows on the surface of the trees, walls, rocks and soil due to the symbiotic relationship between Algae or Cyanobacteria with fungi species.

Jun 28, 2020

Two Black Holes Collided in Deep Space

A whopping 7.5 billion light-years from Earth, two black holes, each about the size of Long Island, rapidly spun around each other several times per second before smashing together in a cataclysmic explosion that sent shockwaves through the Universe. Normally, violent unions like this are dark events, but astronomers think they saw a flare of light emerge from this celestial dance — potentially the first time light has ever been seen from black holes merging.
It's a unique discovery since black holes are notorious for not producing any light at all. These super dense objects are so massive that nothing can escape their gravitational pull — not even light.

Jun 27, 2020

Seven Hundred km Bolt in Brazil Sets Lightning World Record

The UN's weather agency announced that the longest lightning bolt on record is a single flash in southern Brazil on October 31, 2018 that cut the sky across 700 km.
It is equivalent to the distance between Boston and Washington, DC, or between London and Basel.
WMO's committee of experts on climate extremes also reported a world record for the duration of a lightning flash, with a single flash that developed continuously over northern Argentina on March 4, 2019 lasting for a full 16.73 seconds.
The previous record for the longest distance for a lightning flash was 321km, measured on June 20, 2007 in Oklahoma, US.
The previous duration record was 7.74 seconds, measured on August 30, 2012 in France.

Tillari Forest Area in Dodamarg and Sawantwadi Range Declared as Conservation Reserve Area

Maharashtra forest department declared the 29.53 square kilometre Tillari forest area in Dodamarg and Sawantwadi range in coastal Sindhudurg district as a conservation reserve area. The Tilari ecosystem breeds tiger population and serves as the source population for the Sahyadri tiger reserve.
This is the 1st conservation reserve in Sindhudurg district, 62nd for the state. It is the 13th such reserve in the western ghats.
Tillari will be the 7th corridor in the state announced as a 'conservation reserve'.
The decision was made considering the ecological, zoological and floral significance of the area, which will play a vital role in wildlife conservation, particularly for the movement of tigers.

Jun 23, 2020

Arctic Circle Sees Highest-ever Recorded Temperatures

Temperatures in the Arctic Circle are likely to have hit an all-time record, reaching a scorching 38C (100F) in Verkhoyansk, a Siberian town.
The record still needs to be verified, but it appears to have been 18C higher than the average maximum daily temperature in June.
Hot summer weather is not uncommon in the Arctic Circle, but recent months have seen abnormally high temperatures.
The Arctic is believed to be warming twice as fast as the global average.
Verkhoyansk sits just inside the Arctic Circle, in remote Siberia. It has an extreme climate with temperatures plunging in January to an average maximum of -42C and then surging in June to 20C.
But a persistent heatwave this year in the Arctic Circle has worried meteorologists. In March, April and May, the Copernicus Climate Change service reported that the average temperature was around 10C above normal.

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