Environment

25 June 2022; MEMO: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has warned that coastal communities in the Mediterranean are at risk of a tsunami by 2030.

The organisation confirmed that it would train all at-risk coastal communities to deal with the matter.

19 May 2022; MEMO: Military Police with the Israel Defence Forces will not open an investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, in Jenin last week, despite her being shot in the head by an army sniper, Haaretz has reported. The Military Police Criminal Investigation Division believes that an investigation that treats Israeli soldiers as suspects will lead to opposition within Israeli society.

Qeshm, IRNA – Hawksbill sea turtles, likely to become extinct, have hatched out of the eggs and are on way to the southern Iranian waters of the Persian Gulf early on Sunday.

The first group of hawksbill sea turtles (eretmochelys imbricata) crawled to the water from the beach of a village in southern Iranian island of Qeshm.

A few days ago, the head of the Qeshm environment department predicted that over 2,000 turtle eggs would hatch here.

Mohammad Dakhteh said that about 80 percent of those eggs are fertile.

New Delhi, May 13 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Centre to examine a petition raising concerns over the decline in vulture population allegedly on account of the use of certain veterinary drugs, and asked it take measures to save the birds that are an important link in the food chain.

ANKARA, 09 May 2022; MEMO: Nearly 1,900 flamingo chicks hatched in Turkiye’s Lake Tuz last year, according to official data compiled by Anadolu Agency.

Lake Tuz, the second-largest lake in Turkiye, is an important wetland where migratory flamingos from around the world incubate.

It is also a natural protected area that is home to a variety of plants and birds, as well as insects and mammals.

Montana, Apr 16 (AP) The Interior Department has said it's moving forward with the first onshore sales of public oil and gas drilling leases under President Joe Biden, but will sharply increase royalty rates for companies as federal officials weigh efforts to fight climate change against pressure to bring down high gas prices.

The royalty rate for new leases will increase to 18.75% from 12.5%. That's a 50% jump and marks the first increase to royalties for the federal government since the early 1900s.

Kanpur:  Now, a Mumbai-made specialised machine Trash skimmer and weed remover will be brought in the removal of trash like polythene, clothes, metal items, puja wastes, dead animals and birds among other wastes from the river water.

This machine helps remove water hyacinth (Jalkumbhi) that tends to ruin the river water.

Procured by Kanpur Smart City Limited at a cost of ₹1.9 Crores, this machine will be operated by Kanpur Municipal Corporation.

This machine will clean and cover eight-kilometre stretches of Ganga daily.

31 March 2022; MEMO: The longest suspension bridge in the world (the '1915 Canakkale Bridge') in Turkey will save £348 million ($457 million) a year in fuel consumption and emissions, local Turkish media reports.

According to the report, the bridge, with a two-kilometre (2,023m, 6,637ft) span between its towers, will connect Europe and Asia.

The '1915 Canakkale Bridge' cost 2.5 billion Euros ($2.7billion/£2.1billion) to build.

The bridge's toll fee will be 200 Turkish liras ($13.60/£10.30).

Kanpur: We can cover a distance of above two to three kilometres in the morning time. How is it possible in the early morning? This is as simple as two plus one turns three literally. 

Morning walkers even agree with this norm. The two walkers taking a morning walk from Jajmau Nai Chungi to JK Colony onwards in the Jajmau area were overheard saying so. 

As we know the comparatively atmospheric air in Jajmau remains a little bit fresh at that time so we do not feel enough trouble in completing that much distance easily.

Kanpur: Pollution in atmospheric air is too much, says a leather professional. He has been living in the Jajmau area for the past several years. Or, in a more precise way since he has been married luckily.

In search of puffing fresh air he went up above the fifth storey of his building but what broke the spell was the prevalence of dusty, filthy air. It was extremely unbearable for him.

Therefore he decided to walk in the serene air available on the Cantonment area spanning from the Golf Course to the second gate opening towards the Mall Road side here.