#environment25 In an article by the authors published in The Conversation, they noted, “Take the golden bowerbird (Prionodura newtonia), endemic to Queensland’s Wet Tropics. Its habitat appears well preserved, with 84 per cent of its range still forested. But when we drill down, we find only 36 per cent of the rainforest can still be considered high quality.” In West Africa’s rainforests, the Diana monkey still has forests covering 80 per cent of its range — but just 0.7 per cent of high quality,” they added.

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#environment25 The Amur tiger was once widely distributed from Northeast China and Far Eastern There were 55 wild Amur tigers counted by camera trap surveys in Northeast China between 2013 and 2018. But the bulk of the world’s last remaining Amur tigers are now found in the Russian Far East.

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#environment25 The Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) and the Malayan sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) are both present in Bangladesh, the researchers confirm in their study.

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#global25 Saydnaya Prison

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#technology25 Haemophilia can be classified as minor or severe depending on the percentage of clotting factor present in those afflicted. Haemophilia A, the more common version of the condition, is caused by the absence of a blood-clotting factor called Factor VIII. Even though haemophilia is a rare disorder, India has the world’s second largest patient pool, with an estimated 40,000 to 100,000 patients.

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#technology25 Roctavian

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#science25 Monarch butterflies, known for migrating thousands of miles (km) across North America, have experienced a decades-long U.S. population decline due to habitat loss caused by human activities such as farming and urban development, widespread use of pesticides and climate change.Environmental groups have been pushing for U.S.

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#global25 Maungdaw

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#report Social Dialogue Report

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#environment25 Manganese is the fifth-most abundant metal on earth that exists in the form of oxides, carbonates and silicates. It is present in food, water, soil, and rock as a naturally occurring component. A major source of exposure to Mn is drinking water extracted from groundwater. The cause of water contamination is usually industrial pollution (anthropogenic), or sedimentary or igneous rocks (geogenic) deposits of Mn.

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#global25 Schengen accession

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#economy25 China on Friday (December 13, 2024) issued guidelines to support the elderly care system and the "silver economy", with the goal of establishing the basics of an elderly care financial system by 2028, according to a statement from the Central Bank.China will explore the creation of special financial bonds dedicated to raising funds for the elderly care sector, it said.

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#history25 Durgadi Fort

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#science25 Firefly Sparkle

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#polity25 The seven-member committee, headed by former ISRO Chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan, was constituted in June this year in the wake of a NEET-UG exam paper leak. Here are its recommendations.

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#polity25 The seven-member committee, headed by former ISRO Chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan, was constituted in June this year in the wake of a NEET-UG exam paper leak. Here are its recommendations.

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#science25 Enantiomers are a pair of molecules that exist in two forms that are mirror images of one another but cannot be superimposed one upon the other.

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#environment25 The Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea and the Azov Sea, is a key marine ecosystem and a vital route for exports of Russian grain, crude oil, fuel oil and liquefied natural gas. 
Both vessels that went down were operated by the Russian company Volgotanker. The Volgoneft-212, a 55-year-old tanker, split in half on December 15, 2024, due to severe weather near the Kerch Strait.


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