Centered in Pacific Ocean Typhoon Shanshan has drenched large areas with torrential rain triggering floods & landslide warnings across Japan. Subsequently, authorities have halted air, rail services.
Oxygen produced in the absence of sunlight is called ‘dark oxygen’. The discovery calls into question how life on Earth began. Also, dark oxygen can support seafloor ecosystems.
Aviation pioneer Earhart, the first woman to ever fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932, was on a mission to fly around the world, when her plane went missing over the Pacific.
Bengaluru: Small relatives of jellyfish, molluscs and other coastal marine invertebrates appear to be living and reproducing on mounds of plastic debris in the...
From Alaska to Mexico, this enormous invertebrate was a common sight on the seabed. But between 2013 and 2017, an estimated 91% of its population was wiped out.
The basaltic rock found beneath the ocean floor of the Amami Sankaku Basin in the Japanese Sea is distinct from other known rocks both in its chemical and mineral makeup.
Climate patterns like La Niña in the Pacific Ocean, occurring for the first time in 8 years, could determine whether this year will be the warmest on record.
Until now, units operating even in recognised industrial areas needed a separate factory licence. The move is expected to especially give a boost to small and medium enterprises.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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