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ENVIRONMENT - August 2019

Aug 2019

May 11, 2020

Number of Tigers in the Indian Sunderbans in 2019-20 Rose to 96

According to the latest estimation of tiger numbers in the Indian Sunderbans by the West Bengal Forest Department, the tiger count for the year 2019-20 rose to 96, from 88 in 2018-19.
The Sunderbans delta, spread over India and Bangladesh, is the only mangrove forest in the world inhabited by tigers.
The increase in the number by eight was significant as it was the biggest annual jump reported from the Sunderbans.

May 10, 2020

IMD includes Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad in its Weather Forecasts

The India Meteorological Department has started releasing the weather forecasts of Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad. IMD included the regions as part of its Jammu & Kashmir meteorological sub-division.
Gilgit-Baltistan has been in the northwest subdivision of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK). While India has always claimed the entire Jammu & Kashmir as a part of India.
IMD stated that since Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh were announced as two separate Union Territories of India, it started mentioning the regions in its national weather bulletin.

May 09, 2020

New Hope for One of the World's Rarest Owls

On a remote Australian island, two owl chicks have survived to fledglings, the first to do so in more than a decade.
The Norfolk Island morepork owl has an estimated population of only 45-50, making the pair a huge boost for the future of the species.

May 04, 2020

US Scientists Discover 1st Known Aquatic Dinosaur 'Spinosaurus aegyptiacus'

A team of scientists from various Universities of US have discovered a carnivorous (meat eating) swimming dinosaur named "Spinosaurus aegyptiacus" at the Kem Kem region of the Moroccan Sahara in North Africa.
Unlike other theropod dinosaurs, the 50-feet (15 meters) long Spinosaurus used its tail for swimming to actively hunt for prey in rivers. By the end of the tail, it has bony bumps that help adjacent vertebrae disappear & assist the tail's tip move back and forth in a way that would propel through water.
Lived about 95 million years ago (Cretaceous period), spinosaurus was even longer than an adult Tyrannosaurus rex (T-rex).

May 01, 2020

WIHG Reveals 35 Thousand-Year History of River Erosion in Ladakh Himalayas

Scientists and students from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science &Technology,Govt. of Indiastudied rivers in Ladakh Himalaya, bringing out 35 thousand-year history of river erosion and identified hotspots of erosion and wide valleys that act a buffer zones.
The study showed how rivers in drier Ladakh Himalaya operated in longer time scales and how they responded to varying climate, an understanding of water and sediment routing,which is crucial as the country gears up its infrastructure and develops smart cities.

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