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Cornell is one of the biggest and most esteemed universities in the world, sitting on a hill overlooking the 38-mile-long Cayuga Lake with an area of 2,300 acres. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, most institutions, including Cornell, used CFC chillers. These first-generation Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODSs) were destroying the ozone layer and warming the…

The strike took place in a village about 75 kilometres west of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city Fourteen people, including three women, were killed and 20 others injured when Myanmar’s military carried out an air strike on a Buddhist monastery in the central Sagaing region, an opposition group and a villager said.The victims were attending a…

Pezeshkian said the world recognised what he described as Iran’s victory Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for an end to the months-long war with the United States, saying Tehran is in a position of strength and dignity even as diplomatic efforts remain stalled.“It is better that we bring the war to an end now…

Trump-era political misinformation concerns resurface as fake polls spread online, raising questions over how fabricated data can influence election campaigns NEW YORK: Locked in a competitive re-election race, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass declared on social media last week that a new poll was evidence that her campaign was “gaining momentum”. Just a few days…

Rescue teams find two dead after small plane crashes near Croatia’s Zadar Two people were found dead late Friday after a small plane flying from the Czech Republic crashed in the mountains of Paklenica National Park, about 60 kilometres northeast of the coastal city of Zadar, news agency AP reported citing Croatian authorities said.“The search…

Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa said many H-1B visa holders have fake degrees. Indian-American investor Vivek Wadhwa recently said that he’s aware that 20-25% of people who come to the US on H-1B are frauds. In a podcast with Mark Halperin, the India-born Silicon Valley investor spoke about H-1B abuse and Green Card limbo. “See,…

Robert Moses at the placing of final steel, Fire Island Inlet Bridge 1962. A powerful nor’easter hit the eastern coast of the United States in March 1962. The storm destroyed dunes, swept nearly 100 homes into the Atlantic Ocean, and cut through the narrow barrier island off Long Island’s south shore. The storm, known as…

Indian man and woman plead guilty to PayPal scam in Arkansas. Gajera Prashant and Dharaben Bhavadiya, an Indian man and a woman, pleaded guilty to a PayPal refund scam in Arkansas. They have received five-year suspended sentences which means they do not have to go to jail immediately despite their serious crime. The PayPal refund…

Black rat eradication restored Midway Atoll’s ecosystem, helping Bonin petrels rebound from fewer than 5,000 to over 135,000 breeding pairs The successful removal of invasive black rats from Midway Atoll led to an extraordinary recovery of the local Bonin petrel population, which grew from fewer than 5,000 nesting pairs to more than 135,000 pairs. According…

An aggressive campaign to eradicate 5,036 feral pigs from Santa Cruz Island triggered the fastest successful recovery of an endangered mammal in the history of the United States Endangered Species Act. According to official press releases from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and historical records from the National Park Service, the eradication program began…