A new study suggests that deadly heat waves will become more common in South Asia in the coming years, even if global temperature rise is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Scientists have said that this could create unsafe labour conditions across Asia, especially for construction and mining labour as well as farmers, which may cause …
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Countries like India, Japan, Russia, China, Brazil and USA have an astonishingly high number of stray dogs. (10.2m, 12m, 15m, 27.4m, 35.7m and 75.5m respectively) Many people, do not like having stray dogs around them, and try to remove them. Earlier, governments used to cull dogs, but now it is banned in most parts of …
Botswana, the country with the most elephants in the world (approx. 15,000 individuals) has decided to auction licenses for killing 270 elephants on Friday, 7th February, 2020, in packages of 10 each. 7 packages were sold on Friday, and hunters were allowed to kill 10 elephants each in ‘controlled hunting areas’ President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s predecessor …
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Picture this: You are peacefully sitting in a park as people around you scatter grain on the ground for birds to feed on. Soon, a huge flock of pigeons appear, squabbling for the grain. Little do you know, this could lead to a serious illness, or even your death (even theirs). Every year, thousands of …