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Aug 21, 2021

Muga Dhambi One of the Largest and Oldest Corals in the Great Barrier Reef

Australian scientists have discovered one of the largest and oldest coral colonies in the Great Barrier Reef, which is the largest coral reef system on Earth.
The massive coral belongs to the genus Porites and measures 34 feet (10.4 meters) wide and 17.4 feet (5.3 m) tall, making it the widest and sixth-tallest coral in the Great Barrier Reef. Snorkelers found the record-breaking coral off the coast of Goolboodi, part of the Palm Island Group in Queensland, Australia, and they named it "Muga dhambi" — meaning "big coral" in the language of the Manbarra people, who are the Indigenous people of Palm Islands.
The researchers found that the massive coral has been around for between 421 and 438 years, meaning that it predates the colonization of Australia.

Aug 20, 2021

Arvind Kejriwal to Inaugurate Country's First Smog Tower

According to Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai, the country's first smog tower will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The smog tower, located at Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Connaught Place, will clean 1,000 cubic metres of air every second and reduce PM 2.5 and PM 10 levels in Delhi.
The scientists of the Delhi Pollution Control Committee will accordingly assess the performance of the tower and present a monthly report.
As per Delhi Environment Minister, if the smog tower is found effective, more such towers will be set up across the national capital.

Aug 19, 2021

China Approves Biggest State-backed Renewable Project for Green Hydrogen

The Chinese region of Inner Mongolia has approved a massive power project that will use solar and wind to produce green hydrogen.
Inner Mongolia's Energy Administration has given the go ahead to a cluster of plants in the cities of Ordos and Baotou that will use 1.85 gigawatts of solar and 370 megawatts of wind to produce 66,900 tons of green hydrogen a year, the Hydrogen Energy Industry Promotion Association said in a report. Development will begin in October and the projects will be operational in mid-2023.
The project, which would produce enough hydrogen output to displace about 180 million gallons of gasoline a year if it were used for fuel cell vehicles, is the biggest yet to be spearheaded by the government.

Aug 18, 2021

Khattar Inaugurates Haryana's First Waste to Energy Project in Murthal

Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar inaugurated state's first waste-to-energy (WTE) project in Murthal, Sonepat, which is developed by JBM Group.
This plant, developed by JBM Environment Management, is India's first integrated WTE project under the public private partnership (PPP) model.
JBM Enviro's WTE plant has a power generation capacity of 8 MW and can process up to 750 tonnes of solid waste generated daily from the Sonepat-Panipat cluster.
JBM Enviro had signed the concession agreement with the Government of Haryana to build and operate the power plant in 2017.

Aug 17, 2021

Indian Scientists Discover 'Mermaid' Plant Species

Indian scientists have discovered a new plant species in India's Andamans archipelago.
Biologists found a marine green algae during a trip to the island in 2019.
Identification is laborious, and it took the scientists nearly two years to confirm that the species had been discovered for the first time.
Scientists say this is the first discovery of a species of algae in the islands in nearly four decades.
Scientists from the Central University of Punjab have named the specie Acetabularia jalakanyakae.
Jalakanyaka in Sanskrit literally means mermaid and a goddess of oceans. The scientists say they were influenced by the fictional character Little Mermaid in the eponymous fairy tale by Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson.
The newly discovered species is so stunning. It has caps with intricate designs as if it were umbrellas of a mermaid.
The main feature of the newly discovered species is that the plant is made up of just one gigantic cell with just one nucleus - botanically, the condition is called "coenocytic".

Two New Species of Sauropod Dinosaurs Unearthed in China

Paleontologists have identified two new species of giant herbivorous dinosaurs from fossils found in the Turpan-Hami Basin, Xinjiang, northwestern China.
The two new dinosaurs lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous epoch, between 130 and 120 million years ago.
Dubbed 'Silutitan sinensis' and 'Hamititan xinjiangensis', they were about 20 m and 17 m long, respectively.
Both species belong to Somphospondyli, a large clade of titanosauriform sauropods that lived from the Late Jurassic until the end of the Late Cretaceous.

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