1. The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 is the worst nuclear accident of history. The accident which happened in Ukraine (which was part of Soviet Union then) left a lot of contamination in an area of 15,000 square mile.
2. The scientists who studied barn swallows in Chernobyl between 1991 and 2006 found 11 kind of abnormalities in them including distorted beaks and ill shaped feathers.
3. After six months of Fukushima meltdown, as many as 28 percent of pale grass blue butterflies were found to have deformities like deformed antennae and legs and altered wing patterns.
4. A study conducted on wild primates in 2012 suggested that the monkeys near Fukushima had very low RBC and WBC count as compared to monkeys anywhere else in Japan.
5. Nuclear accidents don’t affect all the species. Melanized fungus has Melanin which helps in converting gamma radiation to energy. The number of spiders in the Fukushima region increased after the disaster maybe because their insect preys were slowed due to the disaster which made them an easy catch.

Alex Robles

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K. Song

Increasing mode share of bus transport in Indian cities

The cities in India are now encountering urbanization, improving motor transportation and expanding traffic jam. People in urban areas are not living in a high quality community because of the decreased in public transportation and spending funds for building construction that develop a car culture by constructing road and flyovers. The upcoming years need to center their attention on accurate and improving the expansion of system. It is important to establish a new strategy for operational, infrastructural, technological, marketing, and financing to improve the procedure of public buses in the upcoming years. In order for the cities to be habitable and comfortable, the public transportation like bus and rapid transit (BRT) systems must become an essential part of urban growth.

In the year 2005, buses as public transportation in the cities have a percentage of 90% and it is inexpensive and convenient means of transportation. A total of 35,000 buses in India are functioning for service. Eighty percent of these buses are operating in big cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Pune.

An experimentation study and bus renovation in the past years have strengthen that the systems for city bus will still be the backbone of urban flexibility in India for they in practical cost, more able to be upheld and easy to achieve compare to other infrastructure mass transport systems like metros.

P. Mulukutla

Airport security boosted nationwide

Airports across the country have advances steps of airport security on travellers and their luggage to prepare them for the incoming events to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

Other airlines have made public statements to recommend passengers to arrive two hours before their departure time for a domestic flight and three hours before international flight.

Airport security have been constricted in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, where all the hand carry luggage should be opened and all travellers should take off their shoes and belts during the security check.

In other provincial capitals like Wuhan in Hubei province, not less than half of the hand carry luggage were opened for security checks and one in three passengers are compulsory to take off their shoes and belts for security checks according to the report of Changjiang Daily.

Lighters and matches are totally prohibited from being taken inside the plane and confirmed portable chargers are only permitted in hand carry luggage based on the announcement through the website of the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

According to the security officer from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, if a portable charger is discovered in a passenger’s luggage, officers will open the luggage immediately to check and control it for video supervision.

Z. Wenting