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Jun 08, 2021

New Dinosaur Species is Largest Found in Australia

Scientists in Australia have classified a new species of dinosaur, discovered in 2007, as the largest ever found on the continent.
The Australotitan cooperensis or "the southern titan" is among the 15 largest dinosaurs found worldwide.
Experts said that the titanosaur would have been up to 6.5 m (21 ft) tall and 30 m long.
Its skeleton was first discovered on a farm in south-west Queensland.
Palaeontologists had worked over the past decade to identify the dinosaur - distinguishing it from other known species by comparing scans of its bones to those of other sauropods.
Sauropods were plant-eating dinosaurs known for their size. They had small heads, very long necks, long tails and thick, pillar-like legs.
These dinosaurs roamed the continent during the Cretaceous Period, about 92-96 million years ago.

Jun 07, 2021

Raimona Assam's Sixth National Park

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that the Raimona Reserve Forest in Kokrajhar district under the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), bordering Bhutan, has been upgraded as the sixth National Park of the state.
The other five national parks in the state are Kaziranga, Manas, Nameri, Orang and Dibru-Saikhowa.
The Raimona National Park, which is within the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), is part of a contiguous forest patch with an area of 422 square kilometres, covering the northern part of the notified Ripu Reserve Forest along the Indo-Bhutan border. It is home to golden langur, Asian elephants, tigers, clouded leopards, Indian gaur, wild buffalo, spotted deer, hornbill, more than 150 species of butterflies, 170 species of birds and 380 varieties of plants and orchids.

Jun 04, 2021

TCS Aims to Reduce Emissions by 70% by 2025

IT services major, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced plans to reduce its absolute greenhouse gas emissions across Scope 1 and Scope 2 by 70 per cent by 2025 (over 2016 base year), and to achieve net zero emissions by 2030.
In its recently published Integrated Annual Report 2020-21, the company has set forth this new carbon reduction goal after having achieved the previous target of reducing its specific carbon footprint by half by 2020 (versus baseline year FY 2008), ahead of schedule. In FY 2021, TCS' specific carbon footprint across Scope 1 and Scope 2 was lower by 61.6 per cent compared to baseline year FY 2008.
According to the leading GHG Protocol corporate standard,a company's greenhouse gas emissions are classified in three scopes. Scope 1 and 2 are mandatory to report, whereas scope 3 is voluntary and the hardest to monitor. Scope 1 emissions are direct emissions from company owned and controlled resources. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions that emanate from purchased energy from a power utility.

Jun 02, 2021

Giant Tortoise Thought Extinct Discovered on Galapagos Island

A giant tortoise in the Galápagos Islands that was thought to have gone extinct over a century ago just came out of hiding.
Researchers discovered the female tortoise on the Galápagos' Fernandina Island during a joint expedition carried out by the Galápagos National Park Directorate and the Galápagos Conservancy. They nicknamed her "Fernanda."

May 31, 2021

India's First City-wide Environmental Surveillance Platform for COVID Launched

A platform launched by Government of Karnataka in partnership with the COVIDActionCollab that tracks COVID through waste-water surveillance, with Bangalore as the first city-wide initiative Bangalore, Karnataka, India (NewsVoir) With the number of cases of COVID-19 surging across the county in the second wave of the pandemic, the Government of Karnataka is introducing a city-wide sewage surveillance system in Bangalore that will help officials track the virus at an early stage, even among asymptomatic individuals.
Assisting this effort is the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Skoll Foundation-supported COVIDactionCollab (CAC), an India-wide collaborative of over 300 organizations and networks working together to provide COVID-19 relief and recovery services to the country's most vulnerable communities.
Over the last year, scientists around the world have discovered that waste-water testing can serve as a cost-effective early warning system, often predicting an increase in COVID-19 before the number of official cases has risen. The Precision Health Platform in Bengaluru, the first of its kind in Asia, will test sewage from both sewered and non-sewered waste-water to identify clusters of new infections. Early identification of clusters can help guide the COVID-19 response and give policymakers the information they need to better allocate limited pandemic resources.

World Leaders Call for Cleaner, Greener Planet

World leaders called for more action and inclusion of all countries in the global drive towards a cleaner and greener planet at a climate summit hosted virtually by South Korea.
South Korea, which recently announced plans to cut finance for international coal projects, is seeking a bigger role in the global initiative to go green.
The two-day summit is the second of its kind following the inaugural meeting held in Copenhagen in 2018, and is focused on public-private partnerships, especially in developing countries.
Advanced nations have laid out ambitious emissions-cutting goals in recent months, as well as plans to ultimately go carbon neutral by 2050.

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