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Union environment ministry holds third regional workshop with state governments

Bengaluru, Apr 12 (IBNS) The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests announced on Tuesday that it has completed a two-day workshop in Bengaluru where state government officials were provided with hands-on training for formulating and submitting proposals for accessing climate change finance under the National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change (NAFCC), Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Adaptation Fund Board (AFB).

Monsoon likely to be above normal in 2016: Skymet

New Delhi, Apr 12 (IBNS) India is going to experience above normal monsoon in 2016, as per private weather forecaster Skymet Weather Services .

NASA begins testing of revolutionary e-sail technology

California, Apr 12 (IBNS) Testing has started at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on a concept for a potentially revolutionary propulsion system that could send spacecraft to the edge of our solar system, the heliopause, faster than ever before.

NASA expands economic research to advance space development

California, Apr 12 (IBNS) The global space economy is growing, generating more than $300 billion a year in space-related activities, and attracting new, diverse participants and investors.

Hot super-Earths stripped by host stars: 'Cooked' planets shrink due to radiation

Kolkata, Apr 11 (IBNS) Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications on Monday.

Global wild Tiger population increases: WWF

New Delhi, Apr 11 (IBNS) The number of wild tigers has been revised to 3,890, based on the best available data, said WWF and the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) ahead of a major tiger conservation meeting tomorrow in New Delhi to be opened by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Prime Minister Modi to Inaugurate Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation on Tuesday

New Delhi, Apr 11 (IBNS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the three-day Third Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation on Tuesday in New Delhi.

6.8 earthquake hits Afghanistan, tremors felt in India

Kabul/New Delhi, Apr 10 (IBNS) An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hit Afghanistan's Hindukush Region region as the tremors were felt in north India, including New Delhi.

Tremors felt in Delhi, north India

New Delhi, Apr 10 (IBNS) Strong tremors were felt in parts of north India, including in New Delhi, on Sunday.

NASA invests in two-dimensional spacecraft, reprogrammable microorganisms

California, Apr 9 (IBNS) NASA has selected 13 proposals through NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that invests in transformative architectures through the development of pioneering technologies.

NASA Cargo headed to space station includes habitat prototype, medical research

Washington, Apr 9 (IBNS) Tucked in the trunk of the latest commercial cargo spacecraft to head for the International Space Station is an expandable structure that has the potential to revolutionize work and life on the space station.

Earth’s soils could play key role in locking away greenhouse gases

London, Apr 8 (IBNS) The world’s soils could potentially store an extra 8 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases, helping to limit the impacts of climate change, says a new study from a team including Professor Pete Smith from the University of Aberdeen.

World Bank Group unveils new climate action plan

Washington, Apr 8 (Just Earth News/IBNS) The World Bank Group has announced plans to help developing countries add 30 gigawatts of renewable energy – enough to power 150 million homes – to the world’s energy capacity, bring early warning systems to 100 million people and develop climate-smart agriculture investment plans for at least 40 countries – all by 2020.

Icy ‘Spider’ on Pluto

Washington, Apr 8 (IBNS) Sprawling across Pluto’s icy landscape is an unusual geological feature that resembles a giant spider.

Behemoth Black Hole found in an unlikely place

California, Apr 7 (IBNS) Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking super massive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe.