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2024 Was The Super Election Year

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In 2024, more than 80 countries will be conducting elections to choose their leaders and governments. This means more than half the people on the Earth will be voting in 2024.

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As on the date of printing this Issue, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Taiwan, Finland, Comoros, Tuvalu, El-Salvador, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Cambodia, Iran, and Portugal have already conducted national elections this year. The following are some of the countries that will be conducting elections in the course of this year: Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia, North Korea, India, Togo, Kuwait, South Korea, Solomon Islands, Panama, The Dominican Republic, Lithuania, Iceland, Mexico, the European Parliament, Belgium, Mauritania, Mongolia, Venezuela, Rwanda, South Africa, Croatia, Austria, Botswana, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Moldova, Mozambique, UK, Jordan, Uruguay, Namibia, US, Mauritius, and Ghana.

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First Privately Owned Spacecraft Lands on the Moon

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A privately owned spacecraft, named Odysseus, landed on the Moon on February 22. This spacecraft built and flown by a US based company, Intuitive Machines, landed near the south pole of the Moon. This is also the first US spacecraft that has landed on the lunar surface in more than 50 years. It’s also the first time that a lunar landing has been achieved by a company, rather than a government organisation like ISRO or NASA.

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Odysseus was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft will be carrying out some important experiments for NASA. This mission was unmanned – which means no humans went into space with it. However, it’s hoped Odysseus will help astronauts prepare to send humans to the Moon in the future. The landing location is especially important for scientists. It’s one of the locations that NASA is considering for its mission to send humans back to the Moon.

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India’s Snow Leopard Population Estimated at 718 in First-Ever Survey

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According to a massive five year survey conducted between 2019 and 2023 and the first nationwide scientific count of snow leopards in India, there are 718 snow leopards in India. This survey was conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India along with snow leopard range states, the Nature Conservation Foundation, and World Wildlife Fund.

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They monitored a vast and remote mountain habitat of 120,000 square kilometres across the trans- Himalayan region, using many cameras. The survey found two-thirds of the cats in Ladakh, with the rest in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

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Snow leopards are listed as “vulnerable” species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

 

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Japan: The Fifth Country to Land on The Moon

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Japan has become the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and it may have been the most precise Moon landing ever. The robotic explorer called SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) landed near the Moon’s Shioli crater at the equator on January 20. SLIM successfully released two tiny robotic probes to investigate the Moon’s surface when it landed. The Moon lander has woken up after being shut down for a week because of a power issue. A change in lighting conditions meant that the lander has been able to catch some Sun rays and has recharged enough to make contact with the team on Earth.

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SLIM sent back a lot of important data during landing. SLIM will search for the Moon’s mantle for a mineral called olivine. They want to compare Moon’s olivine with that found on Earth. The project manager of the mission said that “It may offer new evidence to support the theory that the moon was part of the Earth a long time ago”.

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The SLIM mission is also called “Moon Sniper” for its use of precision-landing technologies!

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Its Official 2023 Was the Hottest Year on Record

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According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization, and the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, 2023 was the hottest year on Earth since records began. Record keeping started in 1850 after the Industrial Revolution began. It is also reported that July 2023 was likely the hottest month in the last 120,000 years. The EU’s climate service has said that 2023 was around 1.48ºC warmer than pre-industrial times. Scientists say these record temperatures were driven by human-caused climate change and boosted by the natural El Niño weather event.

This basically means that the Earth is heating up. Throughout the Earth’s history, climate has changed due to natural causes. However, according to the UN’s climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the rapid warming of the Earth in the last hundred years cannot be attributed to natural causes.

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Even though natural factors like El Niño can raise or reduce temperatures for individual years, they say, the temperatures experienced in 2023 go far beyond simply natural causes.

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It is also predicted that 2024 could be even hotter!

What is El Niño?

El Niño is a weather pattern. It is a natural event where warmer surface waters in the East Pacific Ocean release additional heat into the atmosphere. Even though it occurs in the Pacific Ocean, it is so big that it impacts the weather all over the world.

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