The Haiderpur wetland is located about 10 kilometres from Bijnor on the Muzaffarnagar-Bijnor border in Uttar Pradesh. It was formed in 1984 utilising 6,908 hectares…
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Alaska records a temperature of 19.4 degrees C in December for the first time in recorded history
Weather records in Alaska are available from 1953 onwards. On Sunday, the island community of Kodiak recorded a temperature of 67 F (19.4°C) degrees. This…
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A species of millipedes discovered in Australia
Inputs by Aarya Krishnan Millipedes are supposed to have 1000 legs. The Latin name for the arthropods tells us that they do. The word millipede…
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Crossword Puzzle: Animals
Time to do an online crossword puzzle on animals!
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Tropical forests have the ability to recover quickly
Tropical forests are forests located in tropical regions. Tropical regions lie betweenthe Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn latitudes, which include parts of North…
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Mount Semeru erupts in Indonesia, Spews huge ash cloud, cools down after 2 days
Only a year after its most recent eruption, Mount Semeru, the tallest volcano on the island of Java in Indonesia, erupted on Saturday, 4th Dec…
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What are cyclones? How are they formed?
What are cyclones?
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New Species of Butterfly found in Sikkim
A new species of butterfly identified in Sikkim, through the efforts of an amateur nature photographer, the NCBS, and other specialists.
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European Union approves locust as food
The European Commission has included locust in the list of approved food. Migratory Locust or Locusta migratoria is the most widespread locust species.
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Birds outraged in New Zealand as Bat receives ‘Bird of the year award’
New Zealand’s long tailed bat, pekapeka-tou-roa (Chalinolobus tuberculatus), a flying mammal, has been voted the ‘Bird of the Year’ by Forest and Bird
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