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Sandipan Talukdar
Human Activities Intensify Devastation by Annual Floods in India and Nepal
16 Jul 2019
While floods have been an annual phenomenon in most of these places, the devastation has increased manifolds over time due to human intervention.
Sandipan Talukdar
Human Ability of Music Perception Lies in Sensitivity of Brain
13 Jul 2019
A study published in Nature magazine revealed that human brains are more sensitive to pitch, the harmonic sounds that one hears when listening to music.
Sandipan Talukdar
How Old Could Homo Sapiens be Outside of Africa?
11 Jul 2019
A new study says that a skull found in Greece’s southern coast represents the oldest Homo Sapiens outside Africa.
Sandipan Talukdar
When it Comes to Fueling Waste Crisis, US Tops Global List
10 Jul 2019
Every year the world produces over 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) and among the waste producers, US tops the list. US happens to produce three times the global average of waste, that…
Sandipan Talukdar
Climate Change: A Trillion Trees to Save Earth!
09 Jul 2019
Global planting of almost a trillion trees planted in over 1 billion hectares of land could remove two-thirds of the 300 gigatons of carbon humans have added to the atmosphere since the 1800s, says a…
Sandipan Talukdar
Save the Oceans: Greenpeace Report Reveals Need to Regulate Deep-Sea Mining
06 Jul 2019
Environmentalists apprehend that the proposed mining would not only have a devastating effect on the delicate marine ecosystem, but also the global fight against climate breakdown would be threatened.
Sandipan Talukdar
Mumbai Deluge: Of Heavy Rains and Climate Change
03 Jul 2019
We are witnessing a change in our rainfall patterns; for example, studies have estimated that extreme rainfall events over central India have increased three-fold between 1950 and 2015.
Sandipan Talukdar
Airplane Contrails Could Be a Potent Global Warming Agent
03 Jul 2019
“Most aviation regulations and pollution-reduction plans fail to consider the climate impact from anything other than carbon dioxide emissions.”
Sandipan Talukdar
Asteroid Collision That Led to Dinosaurs’ Extinction Helped Tiny Lichens to Bloom
02 Jul 2019
The study on lichen evolution is important as it underlined how profoundly the natural world that we know today was shaped by the mass extinction which occurred 66 million years ago.
Sandipan Talukdar
Bonn Climate Conference: Saudi Arabia and US Oppose Scientific Findings
29 Jun 2019
The conference reportedly witnessed opposition to the scientific findings by UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report produced in October 2018.