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‘Illegal gold melting setup’: What police found inside two Indian jewelry stores in Texas linked with $55 million fraud

Apart from being a part of the organized scam to defraud senior citizens of their retirement money, the two Indian jewelry stores, which were raided in Texas, had been operating an illegal gold melting setup, the Collin County sheriff’s office said. Tilak Jewellers and Saima Jewellers helped in handling the gold obtained through the scam. […]

Greenland is not green! How early settlers thrived on ice and what its melting means for the world | World News

Greenland, the largest island in the world, is commonly mistaken for its deceptive title. Greenland boasts an area in excess of 836,000 square miles, and to its credit, 80% of the island is covered in ice. Greenland’s climate is so harsh that the ice in certain areas can be approximately two miles thick. According to […]

First global repository of ice cores: How Antarctica scientists are preserving ice samples from melting glaciers; why is it important? |

Scientists in Antarctica have inaugurated the world’s first global repository of mountain ice cores, aiming to preserve vital records of Earth’s atmospheric history as glaciers rapidly melt due to global warming.The frozen sanctuary was opened on Wednesday at the Concordia research station on the Antarctic Plateau by the Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European […]

‘Unbelievable’: Body found almost intact after 28 years in Pakistan’s melting glacier – How did it happen?

The body of a man missing for 28 years has been discovered in a melting glacier in Pakistan’s remote Kohistan region. A shepherd, identified as Omar Khan, came across the well-preserved remains, clothing still intact, in the Lady Valley, located in the country’s eastern mountains.“What I saw was unbelievable,” Omar was quoted as saying by […]

What are the real impacts of melting glaciers?

Represenatative image (AP) The collapse of a glacier in the Swiss Alps this week has underscored the impacts of a warming world on the ice-packed parts of planet Earth.When the melting Birch Glacier on crumbled on Wednesday, it engulfed the picturesque village of Blatten in the country’s southern Wallis region. A mound of debris has […]