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San Francisco, July 22 Facebook-owned Instagram has announced that it is now adding a new option to automatically translate text in story posts. Now, when the service detects a foreign language in a post, it will display a “See Translation” option on the top left of the screen, which users can tap to see a […]
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MOSS LANDING: Sea otters are helping to keep marine forests healthy by feasting on the seaweed-loving urchins whose numbers have exploded off California’s coast, researchers have found. Urchins have bred profusely after a disease wiped out their main predator, the sunflower sea star, and are overgrazing on nutrient-rich kelp forests that grow along California’s cold
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COLOMBO: Over 200 rare marine animals have died due to the fire aboard a Singapore-flagged container ship that was carrying tonnes of hazardous chemicals and sank off Sri Lanka’s coast earlier this month, a court has heard, days after the carcasses of the sea creatures started to wash ashore. Briefing on the damage to aquatic
PRESENA GLACIER (ITALY): Battling to save northern Italy’s Presena glacier from further shrinking, climate experts are covering it with long strips of cloth which will reflect the sun’s rays and prevent the snow beneath from melting. They say about 70% of the snow can be saved over the summer with the protective covering which works
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PUUMALA: The serene, icy waters of Finland’s Lake Saimaa are a boon to fishermen and tourists, but their presence also threatens one of the world’s rarest and most endangered seals. Despite seeing numbers recover in recent decades, the Saimaa ringed seal still faces extinction amid climate change and die-hard fishing habits. Out on Saimaa, a
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PORTLAND: The deadly heat wave that roasted the Pacific northwest and western Canada was virtually impossible without human-caused climate change that added a few extra degrees to the record-smashing temperatures, a new quick scientific analysis found. An international team of 27 scientists calculated that climate change increased chances of the extreme heat occurring by at
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NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has formed a fresh committee and directed it to submit a report on pollution caused in the operation of slaughter houses and tanneries in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel noted various deficiencies in operation of the units, including illegal extraction
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FRANKFORT: The European Central Bank has adopted a new approach to managing the economy that would allow the bank to tolerate transitory periods of inflation moderately above its 2% goal and to take greater account of climate change in its forecasting and stimulus programs. The new strategy announced Thursday for the 19 countries that use
GENEVA: Petteri Taalas, chief of the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO), said extreme weather events and natural disasters will continue to increase, adding that climate change was the root cause of the torrential rainstorms and deadly floods ravaging Europe this summer. Speaking exclusively to Xinhua news agency on Monday, Taalas said: “We have always had
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BEIRUT: As thousands of devout Muslims flock to Islam’s holiest sites in Saudi Arabia for the annual haj pilgrimage this week, scientists warn the sacred rite is under threat due to deadly rising heat. The risk of pilgrims suffering life-threatening heat stroke could rise five-fold with global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit)
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Less than half the targeted number of projects have been completed under the mission duration of JnNURM. With the government looking at launching a second phase of the mission next year,the focus quite clearly,has to be on processes and implementation. Launched amidst great fanfare in the year 2005,the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM),is
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NEW DELHI: Arihant Superstructures has posted net consolidated profit of Rs 8.28 crore in the first quarter of the financial year 2021-22. It had recorded a loss of Rs 7.03 crore in the corresponding quarter previous year, the company said in a BSE filing. The company’s total revenue in Q1 FY22 stood at Rs 84.65