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✅What is a Gravity Hole?
🅾️What?- a region on Earth where the gravitational pull is significantly weaker compared to the surrounding areas -sea level may be lower than average due to the weaker gravitational force acting upon the water.
🅾️Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL)- in Indian ocean is one such Gravity hole.
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✅What is a Gravity Hole?
🅾️What?- a region on Earth where the gravitational pull is significantly weaker compared to the surrounding areas -sea level may be lower than average due to the weaker gravitational force acting upon the water.
🅾️Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL)- in Indian ocean is one such Gravity hole.
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✅Gs -1 : Geography- Impact of climate change on climate
🅾️ How spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall is changing with climate change- click here
🅾️What are Cloudbursts?- Click here
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🅾️ How spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall is changing with climate change- click here
🅾️What are Cloudbursts?- Click here
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✅Gs-1 : Geography- Impact of climate change
✅Gs-3 : Climate change- This article talks about Factors for this extreme climate event( read yesterday's article)
⚜️Fundamental characteristics of monsoon rainfall in the region
⚜️Factors attributed to the Heavy Downpour in north India
⚜️Increasing Trend of Extreme Rainfall- Click here
➡️What are the Mitigation strategies against extreme climate events- Pros and cons?
🎖Usual solutions : Techno centrism( like Geo engineering - Click here) and techno mercantalism for climate change- click here
➡️What we actually need- nature based solutions- For example- Click here
🔰Quote that can be used : Climate change should be collective endeavour, its collective accountability and it is never too late to act- Chirstine Laggard, MD IMF
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✅Gs-3 : Climate change- This article talks about Factors for this extreme climate event( read yesterday's article)
⚜️Fundamental characteristics of monsoon rainfall in the region
⚜️Factors attributed to the Heavy Downpour in north India
⚜️Increasing Trend of Extreme Rainfall- Click here
➡️What are the Mitigation strategies against extreme climate events- Pros and cons?
🎖Usual solutions : Techno centrism( like Geo engineering - Click here) and techno mercantalism for climate change- click here
➡️What we actually need- nature based solutions- For example- Click here
🔰Quote that can be used : Climate change should be collective endeavour, its collective accountability and it is never too late to act- Chirstine Laggard, MD IMF
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#Environment
✅Gs-3 : Biodiversity on Galapagos Island- Red rock crab, black marine iguanas
🅾️ Are penguins found only at the poles?- Click here
🅾️You will also find the The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise- a species of very large tortoise in the genus Chelonoidis. The species comprises 15 subspecies. It is the largest living species of tortoise, with some modern Galápagos tortoises weighing up to 417 kg
🅾️Also read galapagos island- oil spill
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✅Gs-3 : Biodiversity on Galapagos Island- Red rock crab, black marine iguanas
🅾️ Are penguins found only at the poles?- Click here
🅾️You will also find the The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise- a species of very large tortoise in the genus Chelonoidis. The species comprises 15 subspecies. It is the largest living species of tortoise, with some modern Galápagos tortoises weighing up to 417 kg
🅾️Also read galapagos island- oil spill
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✅Gs-1 : Geography- Monsoon
✅Gs-3: Disaster management- Management/coordination issues between Riparian states- Click here
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✅Odesa- in ukraine.
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✅Odesa- in ukraine.
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✅Gs-1 : Geography- Himachal pradesh floods- Man-made?
✅Other related news articles
🅾️Case study of Munroe Thuruthu residents, Kerala’s first set of climate refugees
🅾️Factors contributing for GLOF- Think just beyond climate change< think dams and hydroprojects' impact>
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🅾️Case study of Munroe Thuruthu residents, Kerala’s first set of climate refugees
🅾️Factors contributing for GLOF- Think just beyond climate change< think dams and hydroprojects' impact>
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#Geography
✅Parkachik Glacier
🅾️context : News on how 3 new lakes may form in the Parkachik glacier in Ladakh due to glacial retreat
🅾️Major river : It's situated in the Suru Valley, which is drained by the Suru River. The Suru River is a tributary of the Indus River, which it joins near the town of Kargil.
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✅Parkachik Glacier
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🅾️Major river : It's situated in the Suru Valley, which is drained by the Suru River. The Suru River is a tributary of the Indus River, which it joins near the town of Kargil.
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#Geography
✅Amhara Region
🅾️Why in news?- Amhara region of Ethiopia - increasing violence of a local ethnic militia, called Fano, against the national army.
🅾️Reason : Failed plan to integrate regional security forces into the national army.
🅾️Significance- Fano alongside the regional security forces, played a significant role in the two-year-long civil war with the neighboring Tigray region- UPSC ASKED A QUESTION THIS YEAR on this topic- click here
🔰Amhara region- home to Lake Tana, the largest inland body of water in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile River.
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✅Amhara Region
🅾️Why in news?- Amhara region of Ethiopia - increasing violence of a local ethnic militia, called Fano, against the national army.
🅾️Reason : Failed plan to integrate regional security forces into the national army.
🅾️Significance- Fano alongside the regional security forces, played a significant role in the two-year-long civil war with the neighboring Tigray region- UPSC ASKED A QUESTION THIS YEAR on this topic- click here
🔰Amhara region- home to Lake Tana, the largest inland body of water in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile River.
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✅ECOWAS
🅾️Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)- Focus on these countries- It suspended members like Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso following coups in those countries, refusing to recognize their new governments
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✅ECOWAS
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✅Assam’s Longest Nilachal Flyover
🅾️What?- state’s longest flyover measuring 2.63 kilometers, connecting Maligaon Chariali to Kamakhya Gate in Guwahati.
➡️Not an extremely important factoid but - just in case- as a passing reference if you can recollect this info for random trivia based questions- it might help
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✅Assam’s Longest Nilachal Flyover
🅾️What?- state’s longest flyover measuring 2.63 kilometers, connecting Maligaon Chariali to Kamakhya Gate in Guwahati.
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#Geography
✅Shallow earthquakes
🅾️Context : Morocco Earthquake
✅Why are Shallow Earthquakes Dangerous?
➡️They happen closer to the Earth's surface. Imagine someone hitting a drum very close to the top surface; the sound and impact will be much louder and stronger-Similarly, when an earthquake is shallow, it shakes the ground much more violently because it is closer to the surface, making it more dangerous as it can cause more damage to buildings and can be more harmful to people.
➡️On the other hand, deep earthquakes occur far below the surface. So, deep earthquakes, being farther from the surface, have less force by the time they reach the top, causing less shaking and, therefore, less damage compared to shallow earthquakes.
🅾️Earthquake in Morocco occurred due to the northward convergence of the African plate with respect to the Eurasian plate along a complex plate boundary.
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✅Shallow earthquakes
🅾️Context : Morocco Earthquake
✅Why are Shallow Earthquakes Dangerous?
➡️They happen closer to the Earth's surface. Imagine someone hitting a drum very close to the top surface; the sound and impact will be much louder and stronger-Similarly, when an earthquake is shallow, it shakes the ground much more violently because it is closer to the surface, making it more dangerous as it can cause more damage to buildings and can be more harmful to people.
➡️On the other hand, deep earthquakes occur far below the surface. So, deep earthquakes, being farther from the surface, have less force by the time they reach the top, causing less shaking and, therefore, less damage compared to shallow earthquakes.
🅾️Earthquake in Morocco occurred due to the northward convergence of the African plate with respect to the Eurasian plate along a complex plate boundary.
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✅Derna in Libya
🅾️Context : 2 Dams collapsed+ port city was inundated by Storm Daniel-Floods- led to HUGE devastation- almost 5k killed-12k missing
🅾️Libya has an extremely dry climate and rarely experiences heavy rainfall. The storm dumped a record 16 inches, or 400 millimeters, of rain
🎖Related current affairs
⚛️International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD)- Read about the org
⚛️What is the Rule Curve?- Click here
⚛️Baihetan hydro project- Click here
⚛️Kakhovka Dam- breached in Russia ukraine war
⚛️Renaissance dam - on great nile river-Click here
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✅Derna in Libya
🅾️Context : 2 Dams collapsed+ port city was inundated by Storm Daniel-Floods- led to HUGE devastation- almost 5k killed-12k missing
🅾️Libya has an extremely dry climate and rarely experiences heavy rainfall. The storm dumped a record 16 inches, or 400 millimeters, of rain
🎖Related current affairs
⚛️International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD)- Read about the org
⚛️What is the Rule Curve?- Click here
⚛️Baihetan hydro project- Click here
⚛️Kakhovka Dam- breached in Russia ukraine war
⚛️Renaissance dam - on great nile river-Click here
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