World After Japan’s devastating 2011 tsunami, volunteers have planted more than 680,000 trees to protect the coast from future tsunamis | World News August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com When a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the devastating tsunami that followed struck Japan’s north-eastern coast in March 2011, entire towns were swept away, nearly 20,000 people were killed or went…
World Across America’s three coasts, 84% of wetlands are slowly submerging; only 16% are rising fast enough to keep pace with the sea August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com As sea levels continue to rise at an alarming rate, coastal wetlands are facing unprecedented inundation. A staggering eighty-four percent of these essential ecosystems are currently experiencing loss on a…
World California’s winter monarch migration has collapsed from millions in the 1990s to 12,260 butterflies in 2025; the third-lowest count ever recorded | August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com This winter’s survey of the western monarch butterfly revealed over 12,000 individuals, a small rise from last year. Despite this slight increase, conservationists remain alarmed as numbers are still critically…
World Nearly 1,000 migrant children were left stranded in Spain’s Ceuta after a mass crossing from Morocco overwhelmed border authorities | World News August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com For a few days, Spain’s small North African enclave of Ceuta became the centre of a sudden migration crisis as thousands of people crossed from Morocco in a desperate attempt…
World Brazil’s Snake Island is home to just two snake species, including one of the world’s most venomous pit vipers | World News August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Image: Left/Golden lancehead (Bothrops insularis)/Right/Dipsas albifrons (Sauvage’s snail-eating snake)/AI Generated About 33 kilometres off the coast of São Paulo lies Ilha da Queimada Grande, better known as Snake Island. Shrouded…
World Meet Akshath Anand, the Surrey Grade 9 student who built a wearable device that detects IV leaks before swelling begins; his first national science fair ended with gold August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Grade 9 student, Akshat Anand, wins gold for wearable that detects IV leaks earlyPhoto credit: Surrey Schools At just 13 or 14 years old, most Grade 9 students are still…
World Polish swimmer becomes the first person to swim from Sweden to Poland across the Baltic Sea in 55 hours | World News August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com In a historic feat, Bartłomiej Kubkowski, an ultra-swimmer from Poland, became the first person to successfully swim across the Baltic Sea from Sweden to Poland without any physical help. Making…
World Scientists placed 42 sea sponges in a polluted Spanish port. 455 days later, one species had thrived while four others died | August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Representative Image of marine life thriving around resilient chicken kidney sponges in polluted waters (AI-generated image) Researchers in Spain spent 455 days tracking how sponges from five species of Mediterranean…
World ‘Operation Eau de Fraud’: Chicago YouTuber charged after replacing luxury perfumes with modeling clay in return scam; police seize $250,000 worth of fragrances | World News August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Image: Phillip Carter/ Youtube A Chicago YouTuber known for reviewing luxury fragrances has been charged after authorities accused him of carrying out an elaborate return fraud scheme involving expensive designer…
World Lithops werneri: The tiny Namibian plant that survives by disguising itself as a pebble. Fewer than 200 now remain in the wild | August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Representative Image of Lithops werneri camouflaged among grey stones in Namibia’s Erongo Mountains (AI-generated image) In a small patch of Namibia’s Erongo Mountains, a tiny succulent grows so convincingly disguised…
