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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicAquatic animals

Topic: Aquatic animals

Gangetic dolphin beaten to death in UP’s Pratapgarh, police arrest 3 after video goes viral

Video shows a group of men hitting the Gangetic dolphin with axes & sticks as the mammal, an endangered species, bled to death. Police yet to ascertain exact motive for killing it.

Move over fishing nets, LED lights and audio technology are the new fisherman tools

Around the northeast Atlantic, scientists are working on trials of light and audio technology that are protecting endangered species & preserving food security.

Dead coral reefs could be revived by playing sounds of healthy reefs, finds study

The research, published in Nature Communications, says playing sounds of healthy reefs lure fish — which are extremely important for coral reefs to function — back to dead reefs.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.