[ad_1] Recently, scientists revealed that a drilling incident, which took place last year at an exploration well in the Mangistau region of southwestern Kazakhstan, led to one of the worst methane leaks in history. It was possibly the second biggest man-made methane leak ever. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas — it traps heat in…
[ad_1] Earlier this month, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted a hot summer this year, with above-normal temperatures and an above-normal number of heatwave days from March to May. On Tuesday, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), a specialised agency of the UN, said in a media release that the 2023-24 El Niño, one of the…
[ad_1] MethaneSAT — a satellite which will track and measure methane emissions at a global scale — was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket from California on Monday (March 4). While the washing-machine-sized satellite is not the first spacecraft to identify and quantify methane emissions, it will provide more details and have a much wider…
[ad_1] March 5, 2024, will be a ‘Super Tuesday’ in the ongoing cycle of the US Presidential elections, scheduled for November. On this day, supporters of the Democratic and Republican candidates in 15 states will vote for their preferred party candidate in the presidential race. The Associated Press described it as “the biggest day on…
[ad_1] The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will soon decide if former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for allegedly attempting to subvert the 2020 presidential election results, where he was voted out of power in favour of current President Joe Biden. After the US Court of Appeals for the District…
[ad_1] Researchers for the first time witnessed humpback whales having sex in 2022, off the coast of Hawaii. A newly published study in the journal Marine Mammal Science, confirming the sighting, described the sexual encounter like this: “It was also observed that Whale B had its penis extruded throughout the entire encounter and, at times,…
[ad_1] With no end to the Gaza war in sight, the West Bank’s Palestinian Authority government resigned on Monday (February 27). The move is being seen as the first step towards an overhaul of the Palestinian Authority, so that it can govern Gaza too after the war, an arrangement that the US is pushing. West…
[ad_1] An active duty United States Air Force (USAF) airman set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC on Sunday (February 25), in an act of protest against Israeli actions in Palestine. “I will not be complicit in genocide … I am about to engage in an extreme act of…
[ad_1] Large amounts of data from a Chinese cybersecurity company have been leaked online, showing its contracts and communications with the Chinese government for collecting important digital information at home and abroad — including in countries such as India, Nigeria, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. I-Soon, a Shanghai-based company (also transliterated from the Mandarin as…
[ad_1] Pakistan’s ride-hailing service, Careem, recently posted on X: “Program war gaya?” which literally translates to “program gone bust?” As the country’s election results poured in and independents backed by Imran Khan’s PTI trumped the Army’s preferred Sharif-Bhutto-Zardari combine, this phrase was being used by PTI leaders to refer to how the military’s plans had…
