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The recent summers in Europe and America witnessed unusual growth in temperature. The temperature in its high was even more than 40°C.  The wildfires spread across the Europe and America was the result of extreme heat and the dry weather conditions, resulted in loss of around 19000 hectares of forests in Southwestern France.  Italy is reeling under the 200 days long drought , especially in Po river basin , which is called as “food bowl” of the Europe. At least 748 heat-related deaths have been reported in the heat wave in Spain and neighboring Portugal, where temperatures reached 47° C in recent month.  Considering the average annual temperature, the last eight years have been the hottest ever recorded through direct measurements since the 1880s, a NASA analysis showed.  Global temperature has seen a rise of 1°C in recent times. Even polar temperature has seen a variation of 3° C. According to the research workers,  anthropogenic factors are responsible for the ...

  Macaque was first discovered in China in 2015, its existence was not known in India before this . It is only now that Indian scientists have discovered its presence in the remote Anjaw district in central Arunachal Pradesh.  That is barely 200 km aerial distance from where it was first spotted in China in Modog in Southeastern Tibet.  The latest discovery, takes India’s mammal count to 438.  Both the Arunachal macaque as well as the White Cheeked Macaque exist in the same biodiversity hotspot in the eastern Himalayas.  While the Macaque was first discovered in China in 2015, its existence was not known in India before this . It is only now that Indian scientists have discovered its presence in the remote Anjaw district in central Arunachal Pradesh.  That is barely 200 km aerial distance from where it was first spotted in China in Modog in Southeastern Tibet.  The latest discovery, takes India’s mammal count to 438.  Both the Arunachal macaque ...