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ENVIRONMENT Fire in Greenland Has Perplexed Observers Worldwide

<p>On July 31, 2017, satellites noticed a large column of smoke arising out of Greenland&#8217;s permafrost areas, which after being imaged by an Operational Land Imager (OLI), gave data that identified the phenomenon as a fire over the course of the week (NASA, 2017).</p>

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भूगोल और आप वायु-दाब है मानसून की उत्पत्ति का कारण

<p>मानसून पर अल.निनो के प्रभाव की जानकारी सर्वप्रथम गिल्बर्ट वाकर ने 1924 में दीए उन्होंने बताया कि सागरीय सतह के तापमान से वायु.दाब एवं पवनें प्रभावित होती हैं। यह विचारधारा कर्क एवं मकर रेखा के मध्य स्थित हिन्द महासागर एवं प्रशांत महासागर के जलीय सतह के तापमान पर आधारित है। </p>

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DEVELOPMENT Universal City | Design Principles for Achieving an Egalitarian City Experience

<p>According to the National Centre for Accessible Environments (Samarthyam), India, thought on universal design for the universal city in India is based on the model based on Mace’s formula in 1997 (Samarthyam, 2016). The National Institute of Design (NID), India identifies universal design with sustainability, adding that these designs should serve as value propositions (NID, 2015).</p>

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DEVELOPMENT Transport Network Models and Their Judicious Deployment

<p>Transport network models comprise of frameworks for the transportation infrastructure, and their development is based on a number of intrinsic contributory factors of which environmental features are a critical part. Transport network models are thus used as frameworks to formulate systems.</p>

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ENVIRONMENT Anthropocene Epoch | Geological Periods and Climate Change

<p>Although the effects are slow to be realized, with the IPCC predicting the possibility of a rise in global temperatures by 3 degrees Celsius by 2080 (Jones, 2017), the longer term effects with an increasing rate of acceleration in global atmospheric CO2 levels could have devastating effects on the Earth’s climatic patterns.</p>

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EARTH SCIENCE Wind Types | Why They are Not the Same at all Times

<p>World wind types Ascertaining wind types is important to understand disaster&#8217;s. On May 30, 2017, a severe cyclonic storm ‘Mora’ crossed the Bangladesh coast in the forenoon, with a peak surface wind speed of 130 kmph (IMD, 2017).]</p>

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ECOLOGY Concept counter | Understanding ecosystem services and ecological niche

<p>Demystifying ecosystem services Food chains in ecosystems exist in the form of food pyramids. Although a food chain might not always be a linear chain of progression and can alternatively be called a food web. However, according to certain defining characteristics, certain levels of production and consumption can be differentiated in a food chain.</p>

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TECHNOLOGY Putting in Place a Robust Tech Driven Forest Fire Monitoring for India

<p>Forest fire monitoring from space is among the most sought after applications of satellite based remote sensing and is being used for decades. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has come up a long way in space technology and provides various earth resources monitoring services such as forest fire and agriculture residue burning monitoring.</p>

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TECHNOLOGY Mobile App for Soil Health Card for Farmers linked through the Satellite

<p>Innovations in agricultural technologies and management have led to rapid agricultural development in many pockets of India. But this development, especially at the soil health level, has led to deficiencies especially in micro-nutrients that has affected the farm output. Soil Health Management (SHM) involves balanced nutrition levels in soil that are required for sustainable agricultural [&hellip;]</p>

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भूगोल और आप पशु मांस व शिकार पर निर्भर मानव प्रजातियां

<p>विश्व में कुछ मानव प्रजातियां ऐसी भी हैं जिनको अपने भोजन के लिए पशु मांस अथवा मछली आदि मत्स्य प्रजातियों पर निर्भर रहना पड़ता है। पशु मांस पर निर्भर रहने वाली ये मानव प्रजातियां पृथ्वी के टुंड्रा प्रदेश, भूमध्यरेखीय प्रदेशों और मरुस्थलीय प्रदेशों में पायी जाती हैं।</p>

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