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New project brings five African countries together to jointly manage region’s groundwater

The five Partner States of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) have joined forces with IWMI to manage groundwater resources spanning an area larger than Austria and Germany.

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Transforming the future of water at ground-breaking conference

The Transformative Futures for Water Security (TFWS) initiative is raising the ambition for water and bridging the gaps between science, policy and action.

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How a solar revolution in farming is depleting world’s groundwater

Tushaar Shah, a Scientist Emeritus at IWMI, comments on the rapid spread of solar pumps among rural communities in many water-starved regions, including India.

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Solar-powered farming is quickly depleting the world’s groundwater supply

Tushaar Shah, a Scientist Emeritus at IWMI, comments on the rapid spread of solar pumps among rural communities in many water-starved regions, including India.

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Groundbreaking Ceremony for Sofitel Dublin Airport: A New Era of Luxury Hospitality in Ireland

Accor and the Arora Group are proud to announce the groundbreaking of the highly anticipated Sofitel Dublin Airport, a new luxury hotel set to redefine the hospitality experience at Ireland’s main international gateway. The hotel will feature 412 elegantly designed rooms and suites, an all-day dining restaurant, a tea salon, and a sky bar located on the 11th floor, offering stunning views of the airport and beyond. This franchised development project features a new-build Sofitel hotel located at Dublin Airport, set to open by late 2026 as a full-service luxury hotel comprising approximately 412 guest rooms. The hotel will be directly linked to the airport’s Terminal 2, providing seamless connectivity for travellers. The developer for this project is the Arora Group, a significant franchise partner of Accor in the UK and the owner of both the Sofitel London Heathrow Airport and the Sofitel London Gatwick Airport. In 2018, Arora was awarded the opportunity to develop this over €100 mill...




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Employees and Companies Have a Shared Responsibility for Ensuring Ground Transport Safety for Business Travel, According to New Report from FREENOW and GBTA

Both corporate travel managers and business travellers in Europe have a shared responsibility as well as opportunities to mitigate risk by making smart choices when it comes to ground transportation for business trips. This is according to a new report, titled Maximising Duty of Care: Choosing the Safest ‘Last Mile’ Option for Your Business Travel from FREENOW, Europe’s multi mobility app with taxi at its core, and the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the world’s largest business travel association.




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Google’s Gemini API and AI Studio get grounding with Google Search

Starting today, developers using Google’s Gemini API and its Google AI Studio to build AI-based services and bots will be able to ground their prompts’ results with data from Google Search. This should enable more accurate responses based on fresher data. As has been the case before, developers will be able to try out grounding […]

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WhatsApp Introduces New Backgrounds, Filters, and Low-light Mode for Video Calls; Here’s How to Use?

WhatsApp has rolled out several new features to enhance users' video call experience on the platform. Users can now use filters and backgrounds for video calls for both one-on-one and group calls. The Meta-owned instant messaging app also introduced low-light mode




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Domestic groundwater wells in Appalachia show evidence of low-dose, complex mixtures of legacy pollutants

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00364K, Paper
Open Access
Nicolette A. Bugher, Boya Xiong, Runako I. Gentles, Lukas D. Glist, Helen G. Siegel, Nicholaus P. Johnson, Cassandra J. Clark, Nicole C. Deziel, James E. Saiers, Desiree L. Plata
Private groundwater wells in communities co-located with historically contaminated sites and ongoing industrial activity contain complex mixtures of low-dose organic chemicals.
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The idea of nationalism : a study in its origins and background [Electronic book] / Hans Kohn ; with a new introduction by Craig Calhoun.

New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Transaction, 2005.




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A water playground for peptide re-assembly from fibrils to plates

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TB01727G, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Simone Adorinni, Marina Kurbasic, Ana M. Garcia, Slavko Kralj, Ottavia Bellotto, Erica Scarel, Paolo Pengo, Rita De Zorzi, Michele Melchionna, Attilivio V. Vargiu, Silvia Marchesan
Water plays a key role in the irreversible transition from peptide fibrils to plates.
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This book is full of holes : from underground to outer space and everywhere in between / written by Nora Nickum ; illustrated by Robert Meganck

Nickum, Nora, author




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Grounded : a novel / Aisha Saeed, Huda Al-Marashi, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, S.K. Ali

Saeed, Aisha, author




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Gemini API and Google AI Studio now offer Grounding with Google Search

Grounding with Google Search for the Gemini API and Google AI Studio enhances the accuracy and freshness of Gemini's responses by leveraging Google Search data.




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Tyres turn into colourful playgrounds in Anganwadis of Anakapalli district in Andhra Pradesh

Project Play, a brainchild of 29-year-old IAS officer Dhatri Reddy, creates 58 playgrounds in Anganwadi centres of Anakapalli district of Andhra Pradesh using discarded tyres and galvanized iron pipes




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Watch | Creating playgrounds using recycled tyres and pipes

Villages in Andhra Pradesh are putting discarded tyres and PVC pipes to good use... and the kids are loving it




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Co-transport of polybromodiphenyl ethers and soil nanoparticles in saturated porous media: implications for the risks of polybromodiphenyl ether spreading in groundwater

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EN00086B, Paper
Jiameng Liu, Tianchi Cao, Lin Duan, Shengkai Xu, Min Li, Tong Zhang, Wei Chen
This study demonstrates that PBDEs attached to soil nanoparticles can be highly mobile in saturated porous media, providing important insights on risk assessment of PBDEs contamination.
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Rare earth elements and critical minerals will be next geopolitical battleground: Survey

Shift to clean energy will boost demand




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Cautionary tales from the recent past and the ground reality 

The shaky foundation of its Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme should serve as a warning as India reinvents its carbon market 




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Decolonial underground pedagogy [electronic resource] : unschooling and subcultural learning for peace and human rights / Noah Romero.

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.




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Troia-Wilusa : general background and a guided tour (including the information panels at the site) / prepared by the director of the excavations Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred O. Korfmann, Prof. Dr. Dietrich P. Mannsperger ; English translation by Jean D. Car

[İstanbul] : Ege Yayınları, 2005.




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Greek secrets revealed : hidden Scottish history uncovered : Greek inscriptions in Scotland, with a translation into English and some explanation of the background to the inscriptions and the people involved. Book 2, Fife and the North / Ian McHaffie.

Edinburgh : Ian & Averil McHaffie, 2024.




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Greek secrets revealed : hidden Scottish history uncovered : Greek inscriptions in Scotland, with a translation into English and some explanation of the background. Book 1, Edinburgh / Ian McHaffie.

Edinburgh : Ian & Averil McHaffie, 2022.




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Antwerp in the age of Reformation : underground Protestantism in a commercial metropolis, 1550-1577 / Guido Marnef ; translated [from the Dutch] by J.C. Grayson.

Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.




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Chemical perspectives on heteroanionic compounds: a potential playground for multiferroics

Mater. Chem. Front., 2024, 8,3674-3701
DOI: 10.1039/D4QM00454J, Review Article
Karishma Prasad, Vivian Nguyen, Bingheng Ji, Jasmine Quah, Danielle Goodwin, Jian Wang
This review briefly summarizes the chemical flexibility and physical properties of heteroanionic compounds and their potential applications as multiferroics.
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Inside the Deepest Underground Lab in the US

This is the Sanford Underground Research Facility, the deepest underground laboratory in the United States. This facility houses 10 different labs, conducting experiments that can only be done well beneath the Earth's surface. WIRED takes a tour of three labs studying dark matter, neutrinos, and geothermal energy.




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Hydrophobicity induced graphene oxide based dispersive micro solid phase extraction of strontium from seawater and groundwater prior to GFAAS determination

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3JA00445G, Paper
Maria Sebastian, Saikrishna Devulapally, Sk. Jayabun, Noorbasha Nagula Meeravali, Shekhar Raparthi, A. C. Sahayam
A novel graphene oxide (GO) mediated dispersive micro solid phase extraction method is developed for the extraction of ultratrace level strontium (Sr) from seawater and ground water. This method involves...
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Ground results validate zero budget natural farming: Subhash Palekar

Speaking to BusinessLine at a farm on the outskirts of Aurangabad, Subhash Palekar, father of ZBNF, rebuts every criticism and allays every fear that have been raised




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Losing ground in the war on superbugs

Rising drug resistance has left Indian doctors struggling to treat complex infections.



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Affordable housing breaks ground

In spite of a massive dip in 2020 due to the pandemic and lockdown, 2021 saw the launch of nearly 2.37 lakh units in this segment, which significantly powers the country’s economic growth




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Groundwater Denitrification Enhanced by Hydrogel Immobilized Iron/Solid Carbon Source: Impact on Denitrification and Substrate Release Performance

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3EM00444A, Paper
Wenhao Yu, Lecheng Liu, Yan Ni, Xilai Zheng
Encapsulating solid carbon source and zero-valent iron (ZVI) within hydrogel can prevent direct contact with groundwater, thereby extending the lifespan of their released active substrates. It is currently unclear whether...
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A ground plan for sustainable mass employment

These 12-point policy initiatives can pave the way for employment with dignity




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Notes on the Underground: Monetary Policy in Resource-Rich Economies [electronic journal].




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SEA survey estimates 27% increase in Gujarat groundnut production this season

Good rains this year and the increase in acreage might help Gujarat achieve a record groundnut production of 42.19 lakh tonnes this year, surpassing the previous record of 38.55 lakh tonnes set in 2021-22




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Mandi prices indicate higher production in soyabean, groundnut

Production of rice, maize, bajra, ragi may be around last year’s levels




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Softball teams raise the roof as they whip up excitement at Parade Ground




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Heavy weed growth at Kasi Viswanathar Temple tank prevents replenishing of underground water table, say Tiruchi residents




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618: Matt Visiwig on SVGBackgrounds

Matt Visiwig stops by to chat with us about his site, SVGBackgrounds.com, a membership site for copy-and-paste website graphics built around SVG. We talk about why he built the site, how he decided to monetize it, competing with AI garbage on the web, pricing membership options, and how he's running the site.




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Banking on the middle ground

The book is long on analysis but short on solutions




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Tamil Nadu airport infrastructure: Excitement in the air — preparing the ground for take off

Air travel in Tamil Nadu could see a boom over the next few years as significant infrastructure development is in the offing at airports in tier 2 cities across the State. With the State government keen on ensuring distributed growth, strengthening the aviation infrastructure could be a stimulus to the regional economic development as enhanced air connectivity is expected to help attract investment, trade, and tourism




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Tribocharging of granular materials flowing in grounded inclined tubes

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01082E, Paper
Nicolas Preud’homme, Julien Schockmel, Eric Opsomer, Geoffroy Lumay
Numerical simulations using the patch model and the method of image charges, validated against experiments, show that tribocharging in granular materials within inclined grounded tubes depends on the tube's tilt angle and length.
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My Little Underground / directed by: Élise Simard ; produced by: David Verrall, Roddy McManus, Michael Fukushima ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2012




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MP meets Governor, seeks permission to develop cricket grounds