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Uttarakhand flood was caused by rare rock and glacier avalanche

Uttarakhand flood was caused by rare rock and glacier avalanche

10 June 2021

The 2021 flood in Uttarakhand, India, that resulted in over 200 dead and missing was the result of an avalanche that dropped about 27 million square metres of rock and glacier ice from the nearby Ronti mountain
Grey whale

Whale that travelled halfway around the world sets migration record

8 June 2021

In 2013, a grey whale was spotted off the coast of Namibia, far from the species' traditional habitat. Now DNA analysis has revealed it must have travelled 20,000 kilometres to get there, a record mammal migration

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