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2023 Odisha train collision. At least 288 people are killed and more than 900 injured in a train collision in Balasore district, Odisha, India. (India Today) 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. Tropical Storm Arlene forms as the first named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. (The Washington Post)
8 March The report of a 20-year survey by The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland revealed that 56% of Ireland's native plant species are in decline due to habitat loss, altered grazing pressure, and degradation (re-seeding, over-fertilising, nitrogen deposition, herbicides, soil drainage, mineral enrichment), rather than rising temperatures whose botanical effects – so far – are minor.
In 2023, National Geographic laid off all staff writers and announced they would stop U.S. newsstand sales in the next year. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] As of November 2024 [update] , its Instagram page has 280 million followers, the third most of any account not belonging to an individual celebrity. [ 12 ]
Although the country's greenhouse gas emissions are comparatively small (2.94 million tonnes of green house gases emitted in 2023), [22] the Bahamas is reliant on imported fossil fuels for energy generation. [23] The government plans to increase solar energy capacity to 30% of the country's total energy production by 2033. [24]
The Lidder Valley or Liddar Valley [1] is a Himalayan sub-valley that forms the southeastern corner of Anantnag district in Indian-administered Kashmir. [2] The Lidder River flows down the valley. The entrance to the valley lies 7 km northeast from Anantnag town and 62 km southeast from Srinagar , the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία geōgraphía; combining gê 'Earth' and gráphō 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth and its human and natural complexities —not merely where objects are, but also how ...
Kerala (38,863 km 2; 1.18% of India's land) is situated between the Lakshadweep Sea to the west and the Western Ghats to the east. Kerala's coast runs some 590 km in length, while the state itself varies between 35–120 km in width. Geologically, pre-Cambrian and Pleistocene formations comprise the bulk of Kerala's terrain.
The Falkland Islands are located in the South Atlantic Ocean between 51°S and 53°S on a projection of the Patagonian Shelf, part of the South American continental shelf.In ancient geological time this shelf was part of Gondwana, and around 400 million years ago split from what is now Africa and drifted westwards from it.