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Floods maroon many people in Bangladesh and India at least 15 deaths – The Economic Times Video

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Floods maroon many people in Bangladesh and India at least 15 deaths – The Economic Times Video

Floodwaters have stranded hundreds of thousands of people in India’s northeast and neighbouring Bangladesh’s eastern region, causing at least 15 deaths as rescuers struggled to reach those who needed help, officials and media reports said Thursday.At least 11 people were killed and thousands displaced from homes as floods and mudslides have ravaged India’s northeastern Tripura … Read more

Sand from the Sahara Desert causing recent lull in the hurricane season: scientists

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Sand from the Sahara Desert causing recent lull in the hurricane season: scientists

Tiny grains of sand from the Sahara Desert are to blame for the almost month-long lull in this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, scientists say. But it could soon come to an end. Every June and July, there is a peak in the amount of dust from the North African desert that is lifted high above … Read more