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TIME TO RUN
14 year old Pooja Vir, who studies in a government
school in Haryana, has been awarded for inventing an earthquake warning alarm clock. The
alarm is activated as soon an the earthquake strikes. Time to jump out of bed and run for
your life. |
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LIFE IN ICE
Researchers investigating hundreds of metres deep beneath the
frozen ice shields of the South Pole in the Antarctic region have discovered 76
polar-microbial lakes. In these is a living and flourishing community of microbes. One of
them is as large as 13,824 square kilometres. |
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Corn, which was domesticated 5000 years ago,
used to grow in scattered patches in the mountain areas of southern Mexico. Today corn
carpets about 140 million hectares, an area the size of Germany, France and Spain
combined. |
| Out of the total quantity of
water made available daily in India, 80% (18,422 million litres) is again disposed as
sewage or liquid waste. Of this 80%, only 20% is treated. The rest is just dumped into
rivers, streams and underground sources. |
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Down To Earth Supplement
