Soyal Khan

Gabon Has Become The First African Country To Get Paid For Reducing Carbon Emission By Protecting Its Rainforest, Which Covers ~90% Of Gabon. Norway, A Donor Nation, Paid Gabon $17m (£12m) Of The $150m Deal Struck In 2019, As Part Of The Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI). The Money Is Equivalent To The Tonnes Of Carbon Captured.

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Aridity And Record Heat, Worsened By Climate Change, May Cause Water Levels In California’s Second Largest Reservoir, Lake Oroville, To Fall So Low To Projected ~640 Ft, This Summer of 2021, Causing The Edward Hyatt Power Plant, Which Can Power 800,000 Homes When Operating At Full Capacity, To Shut Down For The First Time Since Opening In 1967.

Alligator Muja, Who Recently Celebrated Its 85th Birthday At The Belgrade Zoo, Is Said To Be The World’s Oldest Alligator. Muja Is So Old For An Aligator, Whose Lifespan Is Between 30-50 Years, That It Survived 3 Bombings– The World War II 1941, 1944 And The NATO 1999 Bombings. The Oldest Alligator, Until Muja, Saturn, Died In Russia In 2020.

Fossils Of A New Species Of Ancient Giant Rhino, Suggested To Have Roamed Btw NW China And India-Pakistan, Was Discovered In NW China. The Hornless Rhino, Paraceratherium Linxiaense, The Size of 4 Large African Elephants, Is Said To Be The Largest Land Mammal On Earth. With Head That Could Reach 7m, Making It Taller Than A Giraffe.

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The World’s Third Largest Diamond May Have Been Discovered In Botswana. The Diamond, Which Is 1,098 Carat, Measures 73mm Long, 52mm Wide, And 27mm Thick. The Diamond Is Smaller Than The 3,106 Carat Cullinan Stone Diamond Discovered In South Africa In 1905 And The 1,109 Carat Lesedi La Rona Diamond Found In Botswana in 2015.

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The Southern Ocean, The Frigid Water Around Antarctica, Though Recognized By Many, Including Scientists, As One Of The Earth’s Ocean, Has Not Being Popularly Recognized Until Now. The National Geographic Society Wants To Officially Recognize It As The 5th Earth’s Ocean, An Addition To The Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, And Arctic Oceans.

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The World’s Smallest Dinosaur, Thought To Be A Bird, May Be, With Skepticism In Some Quarters, A Lizard. Researchers Are Indicating This Upon Further Review Of The Fossil’s Attributes And Those of Another Discovered Oculudentavis Fossil. Bird-Like Attributes, Like Long And Tapering Snout And Vaulted Skull Roof, Led To The Confusion.

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A New Study, Based On Sleep Data From 85,000 Participants And Self Reported Data, Has Found A Link Btw Misaligned Sleep Cycle And Depressions/Anxiety. For Example, Night Folks Are More Likely To Be Depressed/Anxious When Working In The Morning, Relative To Morning Folks, Who Are Also More Exposed To Sunlight, Which’s Great For Depression.

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Researchers Discovered That Mouse Sperm, Freeze-Dried And Exposed To A High Level Of Cosmic Radiation For ~6 Years At The International Space Station, Can Still Successfully Birth Healthy Normal Pups That Are Free Of Genetic Defects. This Discovery Is Important As We Plan Future Long Term Space Exploration And Colonization Missions.

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France Is Sending A Second Statue Of Liberty To The US. The Statue, Named “Little Sister,” Though Symbolic As The Original, Is 1/16 The Original’s Size. Little Sister, First Made In 2009, Will Be Temporarily Erected, From July 1st To 5th, 2021, On Ellis Island, Before Going To Its Final Destination–The French Ambassador’s Residence.

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