Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)

India submits new climate action pledges to UN agency, sets out conditions for fulfilling them

April 27, 2026 by WEB DESK TEAM

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Nile perch were introduced into Lake Victoria to improve fisheries; decades later the predator was linked to the loss of many native cichlids and transformation of the lake’s fishery
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Man applies for Ethiopian wife’s PR, gets rejected as woman’s divorce from first husband under Sharia law not considered legal in Canada
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In 1984, a $57 million gift from David and Lucile Packard helped open Monterey Bay Aquarium; its sea otter programme has since cared for over 1,000 stranded animals and surrogate-raised 84 pups