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Challenges and Efforts in Recovering the Titanic Submersible

Teams from around the world are engaged in a race against time to locate a missing submersible and its crew in the vast depths of the North Atlantic. ...

June 22, 2023

What is Sea Lamprey?

A marine biologist in The Netherlands, Jaco Havermans, recently spotted a rare sea lamprey on a beach. The sea lamprey, which is a parasitic fish, was found for...

April 5, 2023

China Spy Balloon Update

The US military spotted a Chinese spy balloon near Alaska by the end of January 2023. The balloon was flying at an altitude of 60,000 feet and posed...

February 6, 2023

What is Five Deeps Expedition?

The Five Deeps Expedition has provided data on the deepest points of five oceans in the world. They are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and the Southern Oceans....

May 11, 2021

Tristan da Cunha becomes the largest Marine Protection Zone of Atlantic Ocean

The isolated UK overseas territory of Tristan da Cunha was declared the largest fully protected Marine reserve of Atlantic Ocean. This will prohibit sand extraction, bottom trawling fishing...

November 16, 2020

SpaceX: First Private Space Company to send NASA astronauts to space

The SpaceX has become the first private rocket company to send astronauts to space. The company sent Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to space initiating a new business...

June 1, 2020

Rapid Intensification made AMPHAN a Super Cyclone

The Cyclone ‘Amphan’ has intensified from a severe cyclonic storm to a Super Cyclone. This has happened in less than 40 hours. Highlights The rapid intensification of Amphan...

May 19, 2020

IMD Predicts near Normal Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall for 2019

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts near-normal monsoon, at 96% of long period average. IMD in its first stage operational forecast for the southwest monsoon season (June to September) rainfall has made...

April 16, 2019

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