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The water bottle industry is fueling a famine around the world, and it is believed that production will almost double by 2030. In the world, more than 1 million bottles of drinking water are sold every minute. This is expected to double by the end of the decade. According to the report published by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health on Thursday, “Global Bottled Water Industry: A Review of Impacts and Trends,” the industry has posed a great social, environmental, and climatic risk to the world. The generation of more and more plastic bottles is increasing the…

Venus, Earth’s twin planet, has shown volcanic activity. The observations were made from data collected in 1991. A new analysis of images of Venus taken in 1991 has revealed that the hellish planet is geologically active. The images were from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft. After observing, in particular, two pictures of Maat Mons, a volcano on the planet, taken eight months apart, the morphed surface of the volcano was revealed. This research was made by Scott Hensley, a radar scientist at JPL (short for Jet Propulsion Laboratory), and Robert Herrick, a research professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a…

The study highlights the frozen legacy of microbes that are left behind on Mount Everest by human tourism. Very little is known about the microbial communities in the environments of the earth’s tallest mountains and how they survive in such extreme conditions, in part because of the challenges and dangers of reaching such places. A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder has investigated the microbial diversity of Mount Everest through three sediment samples that were collected from the South Col of Mount Everest. South Col is a pass between the peaks of Mount Everest and Lhotse, where…

The Government Fever Hospital has reported nearly 600 to 800 cases daily in the last week, with patients showing symptoms like headache, runny nose, abdominal pain, body pain, loose motions, and vomiting. The superintendent of the hospital suspects it to be swine flu. Shankar, superintendent of the Government Fever Hospital, said that the cases of viral flu have been increasing since the last week, although the cases of dengue, COVID, and chikungunya have been zero. On Monday, the hospital received approximately 800 to 1,000 cases of the flu. He also stated that the people had been suffering from swine flu…

“DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality” has been declared the theme of International Women’s Day 2024 to highlight the significance of technology in bringing gender issues to light. International Women’s Day is celebrated every year on the 8th of March to celebrate womanhood, acknowledge the struggles that led the world that is today towards gender equality and the empowerment of women, and also create a better future by promoting a better society that is free of gender bias. On this day, the acts of bravery of women in the past are acknowledged, and the issues still prevailing in society…

Yogeshwer Nath Mishra, a scientist from a village in Uttar Pradesh, and his colleagues have developed a system that will provide widely applicable avenues in the study of combustion. Yogeshwer Nath Mishra, a farmer’s son, comes from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh and is part of a team at NASA and Caltech that has successfully developed the technology of the world’s fastest laser sheet imaging. This technology of laser sheet imaging can be helpful in the study of nanoparticles in flames. This achievement could make a notable change in our understanding of combustion. Mishra, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…

In 2021, 1.76 billion metric tonnes of CO2 were emitted by the burning trees of the boreal forests spread across North America and Eurasia. Wildfires in the regions of boreal forests that are spread across the northern latitudes of the globe have been emitting record-breaking levels of planet-heating pollution in the form of CO2 (carbon dioxide) in rapidly increasing amounts, according to a study. The study was published in Science by a team of international researchers that was led by Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine. Generally, boreal wildfires make up 10 percent of wildfire-related carbon pollution…

The scientists of IIT Madras are collaborating with Denmark for research on low-carbon and more efficient energy sources. The Danish government launched a multi-layer strategic program to support the plan for green and sustainable development in India and to strengthen the trade links between the two nations in the water and energy sectors. The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) has joined forces with the academia and industry of Denmark for numerous research projects in the field of climate change mitigation and for enabling green transition. On Wednesday, the Crown Prince of Denmark, Frederik Andre Henrik Christian, and Crown Princess…

A few days after the first heat advisory of 2024 was issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued an advisory to the state governments containing a list of dos and don’ts to spruce up healthcare facilities against the heatwave. The month of February, which is generally marked by the end of winter and the arrival of a pleasant springtime, has witnessed unusually high temperatures in different parts of the country. This indicates the possibility of a severe heatwave that will be experienced in the coming months. To avoid heat-related illnesses,…

A patient who was suffering from HIV and leukemia has been treated with no signs of its return. Researchers have announced that a 53-year-old man, who is referred to as the Düsseldorf patient to protect his privacy, has been cured of HIV in Germany. The research was published in Nature Medicine on Monday. According to the researchers, he is the fifth confirmed case of cured HIV in the world. At a conference in 2019, the details were first announced of his successful treatment. However, at the time, the researchers could not confirm that he had been cured officially. The researchers…