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Now, drive over Tehri lake on India’s longest motorable suspension bridge
Hindustan Times   09 November 2020   India   Tehri Garhwal  
The Dobra-Chanti suspension bridge took 14 years to build and cost almost Rs 3 crore.(HT PHOTO)
<p>Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated the country&rsquo;s longest single-lane motorable suspension bridge in Tehri Garhwal district to mark the state&rsquo;s 21st foundation day on Sunday.<br />Rawat inaugurated the 725-metre long Dobra-Chanti ...
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China to build world’s longest underwater high-speed rail tunnel
RT Question More   02 November 2020   China   Zhejiang Province  
© Getty Images / Michael Dunning
<p>A project to construct China&rsquo;s first undersea high-speed rail tunnel in eastern Zhejiang Province was approved on Monday, according to The Paper digital newspaper. Investments in the project will amount to over $4 billion.<br />Construction of the ...
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Turkey-Greece quake: Search for survivors under rubble
BBC NEWS   31 October 2020   Greece, Turkey   Izmir, Samos  
Twenty buildings were turned into mounds of concrete rubble by the earthquake in Izmir
<p>Rescue teams in the Turkish port city of Izmir are hunting through the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors of Friday's powerful earthquake.<br>The death toll from the quake, which also struck the Greek island of Samos, has risen to 27, with over ...
In Turkey, a Frantic Rescue Effort After a Deadly Earthquake
The New York Times   30 October 2020   Greece   Samos  
Rescue workers continued to search for survivors in Izmir into the night.Credit...Usame Ari/Getty Images
<p>Rescue workers scrambled into the early morning Saturday in a frantic effort to save people trapped under debris in the western Turkish city of Izmir, several hours after a major earthquake in the Aegean Sea leveled several buildings and severely damaged ...
10 years in making, longest bridge on Manali–Leh highway complete
The Tribune India   07 October 2020   India  
Known as Barsi Bridge, it is the second longest bridge of its kind in the country after the Col Chewang Rinchen Setu across Shyok river on route to the world’s highest landing ground at Daulat Beg Oldie in Ladakh
<p>The longest bridge on the strategic Manali &ndash; Leh highway, located in Himachal Pradesh, is complete and will be opened for traffic this month.<br />While easing the flow of traffic, the new structure had greatly increased load carrying capacity. <br ...
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Landslide, floods from monsoon rains kill at least 41 in India, Nepal
The Jakarta Post   31 August 2020   India   Nepal  
Reuters/Adnan Abidi
<p>A landslide and floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least 41 people in Nepal and India in the past week, officials said on Monday, as the annual monsoon season enters its final stretch after claiming hundreds of lives in South Asia. Ten people, ...
Fossil footprints from 313 million years ago oldest ever found in Grand Canyon
Fox News   22 August 2020   USA   Grand Canyon, Arizona  
Stephen Rowland/National Park Service
<p>Fossil footprints from 313 million years ago are the oldest to ever be found in the Grand Canyon.<br />A geology professor from Norway, Allan Krill, made the surprising discovery four years ago on a hike with students.<br />Lying next to the trail, in plain ...
Mont Blanc: Glacier collapse risk forces Italy Alps evacuation
BBC NEWS   07 August 2020   Italy  
The bottom section of glacier is at risk of collapse (pic: Fondazione Montagna Sicura via Reuters)
<p>Italian authorities have evacuated about 75 people, mostly tourists, from an Alpine valley as huge blocks of ice threaten to crash down from a glacier.<br />Planpincieux glacier, in the Mont Blanc massif, has weakened because of intense summer heat alternating ...
'There’s still a choice': New Zealand's melting glaciers show the human fingerprints of climate change
The Guardian   03 August 2020   New Zealand  
Photograph: Dave Allen/Lauren Vargo
<p>New research has found extreme melting of the country&rsquo;s glaciers in 2018 was at least ten times more likely due to human-caused global heating.<br />Twice a year, glaciologist Lauren Vargo and her colleagues set up camp beside two small lakes close ...
Three Gorges Dam under fast mounting flood pressure
Asia Times   28 July 2020   China  
Water was discharged from the Three Gorges Dam last weekend to make room for a new deluge from upstream. Photo: Xinhua
<p>People in cities along China&rsquo;s Yangtze River, which have already been inundated with water, are now scrambling to shore up embankments and dykes before the Three Gorges Dam releases more water and towns are swamped again by the third big flood this ...