A nine-year-old girl from Faridabad named Shreyovi Mehta achieved the runner-up position in the 60th edition of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition by London’s Natural History Museum. Shreyovi earned a spot in the ‘10 Years and Under’ category for her photograph called ‘In the Spotlight’ in which she captured two peahens at Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan. 

A powerful typhoon called Yagi hit Hainan in China, causing evacuations, power outages and disruptions in daily life across the region. It left close to 3 million people without electricity and damaged close to 1,20,000 hectares of agricultural land. 

A state of emergency was declared in Greece’s port city of Volvos as thousands of dead fish flooded the waters in the city at the end of August. Experts believe that the floods that occurred last year as a result of climate change displaced the fish from their freshwater habitat to the sea, causing them to die. 

Scientists at JILA, an establishment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado Boulder, USA, are in the process of developing the first nuclear clock in the world. Nuclear clocks, which make use of signals from an atom’s nucleus to function, are expected to possess a higher level of precision as compared to atomic clocks, offering numerous potential applications. 

India’s first bio-hydrogen project will be set up by Gensol Engineering in partnership with Matrix Gas and Renewables at a cost of ₹164 crore. This project is expected to generate 1 ton of green hydrogen by processing 25 tons of bio-waste each day.