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Missiles below, mountains ahead: How the IAF had to improvise in the middle of war

Missiles below, mountains ahead: How the IAF had to improvise in the middle of war

The Indian Air Force conducted a unique high-altitude air-to-ground campaign during the 1999 Kargil conflict. Fighter pilots faced unprecedented challenges fighting at altitudes of 14-18,000 feet. Early losses prompted tactical changes and…

Wildfires: Belgium battles blaze, France's Lecornu jeered

Deutsche Welle

Wildfires: Belgium battles blaze, France's Lecornu jeered

Fires are raging from Belgium to Greece as Europe suffers one of its most severe wildfire seasons to date. The blazes come amid frequent heat waves and drought that studies say are driven by human-induced climate change.

Deutsche Welle

Belgian wildfire approaches Germany despite rain as Greece probes deadly blaze

Belgian wildfire approaches Germany despite rain as Greece probes deadly blaze

One of Belgium's biggest-ever wildfires blazed out of control Monday even as cooler weather and rain eased conditions for firefighters, while in Greece a fire briefly flared up near the main airport on the outskirts of Athens.

Smithsonian team uses X-rays and thread to track hidden turtle nests

Smithsonian team uses X-rays and thread to track hidden turtle nests

Smithsonian scientists are utilising cutting-edge methods to identify turtle nesting sites, revealing that numerous nests fall prey to predators shortly after egg deposition. This alarming finding signals a crucial risk to the Eastern box…

Will Europe hear a landmark Russian climate change case?

Al Jazeera

Will Europe hear a landmark Russian climate change case?

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed the case, but the plaintiffs aren't giving up.

Al Jazeera

AI 'slop' causes cognitive decline and violent tendencies among kids, study says

Euronews

AI 'slop' causes cognitive decline and violent tendencies among kids, study says

In recent years, platforms like TikTok and YouTube have seen a surge in low-quality, highly repetitive, and at times violent, AI-generated content aimed towards kids which is causing cognitive decline and vicious streaks, according to a…

Euronews

What you need to know about B.C. wildfires on Aug. 17

What you need to know about B.C. wildfires on Aug. 17

The mayor of Summerland, B.C., says that damage assessments have been completed as more of his community's residents return after being forced to flee due to the out-of-control Bald Range wildfire.

Chinese team aims to put ‘smart’ diabetes probiotic on US shelves within 2 years

South China Morning Post

Chinese team aims to put ‘smart’ diabetes probiotic on US shelves within 2 years

Chinese researchers have engineered a probiotic that could make diabetes care as simple as drinking a cup of yogurt or swallowing a capsule. The “smart” bacterium, designed to sense high blood sugar and automatically release a…

South China Morning Post

Hyderabad-born MIT astronomer Rohan Naidu helps uncover a ‘black hole star’

Hyderabad-born MIT astronomer Rohan Naidu helps uncover a ‘black hole star’

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an exceptionally bright, red object from the early universe that may be a previously unknown “black hole star”. Led by Hyderabad-born MIT astronomer Rohan Naidu, the study…

Cop17 aims to restore land and hope in fight against desertification

RFI