The Golden 80s

T he vast majority of the world's  remaining forests are fragmented . In other words, the forests that we see today are "...increasingly isolated from other forests by a sea of transformed lands, and they are found in ever-smaller sized patches." says a new study . This means that only the Amazon and the Congo are the two major forests left in the world, says Christian Science Monitor . Another study says that "The amount of moisture transpired from leaves increases for some tree species but drops on average." because of climate change. Global climate change disturbs seafloor ecosystems on continental margins and required millions of years for ecological recovery, says a paper published in PNAS . Around 8 million metric tonnes of plastic go into the oceans every year. Today, 99 percent of our transoceanic data traffic —including phone calls, text and e-mail messages, —travels across the oceans via undersea cables, says a ...

Scientists and doctors have been saying that overuse of antibiotics will lead to antibiotic resistance. Bacteria share genes through a process called Horizontal Gene Transfer . This process is different from the way human beings or other organisms get their genetic material from normal cell division of their parental genome. Carbapenems are a class of antibiotics that were being used against several strains of bacteria, including gravely ill patients and those that show antibiotic resistance. But the emergence of multi-drug resistance has also affected Carbapenems. The concern now is that the resistance against Carbapenems have been increasing worldwide. The medical world is worried about such resistance in  Enterobacteriaceae  and  Klebsiella pneumoniae to Carbapenems, as anyone can get an infection from these two bacteria from crowded places such as hospitals. A recent study advocates that hospitals must compulsorily screen for two genes,  Klebsiella pneumon...

If you have accidentally deleted your WhatsApp conversations and want to view them again, you can restore the conversation from the backed up files. The  msgstore.db.crypt8 file in WhatsApp is the backup file that saves your chats and messages. WhatsApp manually saves the backup file in your phone. Use the  msgstore.db.crypt8 to restore them. You can view this file in the WhatsApp/Databases folder location on your phone. You can find it either on your phone SD card or in your device's internal memory. For more information on restoring backed up files in WhatsApp, see How do I recover deleted messages?

There was free for all today in Kerala as the opposition MLAs tried to prevent the finance minister K M Mani from presenting the budget. The CPM-led opposition clashed with the watch and ward personnel who prevented the opposition MLAs from reaching the treasury benches and prevent the finance minister from going ahead with the state budget for 2015-16. The finance minister laid the budget on the table after receiving oral instructions from the Assembly Speaker whose dais was destroyed by the opposition MLAs. In the ensuing clashes, a few MLAs were injured and they were taken to hospital. NDTV says that "... Outside the assembly, a massive contingent of LDF and BJP protesters raised slogans against Mr Mani and threw bottles of water at the police, who used batons, tear gas and water cannons to control the crowd . The police has deployed a 2,500-strong force outside the assembly, with multiple barricades. " The state capital Thiruvananthapuram then witnessed clashes...