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Geography for Prelims
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- Current Geography Topics
Lightning
- Odisha plans to plant 1.9 million palm trees and restrict cutting.
- To reduce lightning deaths, targeting areas heavily affected during pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons.
- Lightning is a powerful electrical phenomenon caused by the buildup of electrical charges within clouds and between clouds and the ground.
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Aphelion Point
- Aphelion occurs in early July, Earth’s farthest from the Sun.
- Aphelion receives 7% less sunlight than perihelion.
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Sea Groynes
- Coastal residents in Ernakulam district, Kerala, protested against sea incursion and incompletion erection of Sea Groynes, by blocking the Fort Kochi-Alappuzha State Highway near Kannamaly.
- Sea groynes are structures built perpendicular to the shoreline, extending into the sea.
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Denisovans
- A study reveals that Denisovans, an extinct human species, occupied the Tibetan Plateau 160,000 years ago.
- Denisovans were an extinct group of hominins, or human relatives, known primarily from remains found in Siberia and Tibet
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Rogue Waves
- Researchers have developed an AI program that predicts rogue waves by analysing data from 172 ocean buoys.
- Rogue waves, defined as waves twice the size of surrounding waves, pose significant threats to
ships, coastal infrastructure, and human lives. - Learn more with Practice