A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change reveals that the next decade could witness a loss of the world's lake ice. The study, which involved observing 513 lakes around the Northern Hemisphere, also indicates that the loss of ice cover could impact millions of people and fish species inhabiting the lakes. Scientists view lake ice as an important indicator of climate change. A wide range of ecosystem services from recreation to transportation depend on lake ice, that would be majorly affected by the depleting ice cover.

Pharmaceutical company&nbsp;AstraZeneca&nbsp;is aiming to produce 2 billion doses of a&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;vaccine.&nbsp;It plans to start distributing the vaccine to the U.S. and U.K. in September or October.&nbsp;According to a press release,&nbsp;AstraZeneca said that it had signed a licensing deal with the Serum Institute of India to provide 1 billion doses to low- and middle-income countries, with 400 million of those shots set to be delivered by the end of 2020.&nbsp;The vaccine, named AZD1222, was originally developed by Oxford University in the U.K. and AstraZeneca is working with pharmaceutical industry partners to manufacture and distribute the drug.

Thousands of China's movie theatres may face permanent closure due to the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic, says a new survey by film industry insiders. China is known to have the most number of movie screens in the world but they've all been closed since January when the&nbsp;lockdown was imposed. China, reportedly, has the second largest box office in the world after the United States. However, things took a turn this year. A survey of 187 theatres&nbsp;suggests that 40% of them may face survival difficulties. The survey shares that theatres had already laid off 20% of their staff by March. According to film and entertainment website variety.com,&nbsp; closure could mean a loss of 66% from last year's revenue. Another added struggle is the lack of new releases, since shoots and production have been halted.&nbsp;

Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram has partnered with food ordering apps Swiggy and Zomato&nbsp;to help small eateries who have lost business due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of the alliance, Instagram&nbsp;has launched its 'food order' sticker feature in India, which users can click on to order food from the restaurant through websites like Swiggy&nbsp;or Zomato. Eateries can share the sticker on their stories and their followers can then re-share&nbsp;their favourite joint's sticker on their own stories to show support.&nbsp;

This year's International Yoga Day will be celebrated only digital platforms and no mass gatherings will be organised in view of the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, the government has announced. The theme for 2020 will be 'Yoga at Home and Yoga with Family'.&nbsp;The AYUSH ministry had earlier planned to hold a&nbsp;grand event at Leh which has been&nbsp;cancelled. As announced last month, 'My Life &ndash; My Yoga' video-blogging&nbsp;competition will inspire people from all over the world to share their yoga experience for grand prizes. People can upload their entries&nbsp;to any social media platform with the hashtag&nbsp;#MyLifeMyYogaINDIA.

Renowned journal The Lancet has issued a statement of concern after over 100 scientists from around the world flagged discrepancies in its recent study linking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine with increased death risk during Covid-19 treatment. The medical journal has withdrawn the paper published on May 22 that was based on a database from an Illinois company&nbsp;Surgisphere Corporation and analysis&nbsp;of some 96,000 patient records, the authors claimed.&nbsp;Among major issues cited by scientists are concerns that there was no mention of the countries or hospitals that contributed to the data source and no acknowledgments of their contributions.&nbsp;The research scandal threatens to undermine confidence in one of the world's top medical journals amid a&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;The findings, reportedly, led the&nbsp;World Health Organization&nbsp;to temporarily suspend clinical trials for the&nbsp;drug.&nbsp;

People from Aurangabad in Maharashtra&nbsp;have urged&nbsp;for a biodiversity zone tag for a 17th-century garden that is home to more than 10,000 trees and 82 birds species. The&nbsp;Himayat Baugh&nbsp;is one of the very few green spaces still preserved amid growing urbanisation of the city of Aurangabad.&nbsp;
A member of the&nbsp;Aurangabad Municipal Corporation told PTI&nbsp;that every six months, there is a new encroachment observed in the 30-acre garden where a huge number of trees have crossed a life of 200 years here and every tree is capable of being a heritage.&nbsp;

On World Environment Day,&nbsp;Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar&nbsp;said that forest cover in urban areas must be increased in order to uplift the lung capacities of cities. Addressing a virtual celebration for the global day, Javadekar&nbsp;announced the launch of an initiative called&nbsp;Nagar Van or Urban Forests with 200 corporations and cities to increase forest cover in India. It was also revealed in the same meeting that the government has set a target of planting 145 crore trees this year.&nbsp;

Padma Shri&nbsp;awardee and internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan&nbsp;Pattnaik&nbsp;marked World Environment Day with a stunning sand art installation at Odisha's&nbsp;Puri beach. The artwork depicts two hands holding the Earth with the message 'It's time for nature'. The theme for this year's campaign focuses on preserving our&nbsp;biodiversity that human life depends on.&nbsp;

The Covid-19 pandemic has left Mexico City's organ grinders struggling without any income. They roam around&nbsp;in their traditional uniforms wearing masks, but the streets are empty. Some of them have been playing music on the streets of the Historical Center for the last 16 years. Street entertainment has come to a halt over the last few months.&nbsp;Non-profit civil organisation, Cadena&nbsp;has been&nbsp; delivering groceries to them, and has helped about 280 organ grinders.&nbsp;

Almost 25 swarms of locust have already made their way into&nbsp;Rajasthan, damaging crops and posing a major threat to the activities&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Indian Air Force base in Jaisalmer&nbsp;and Jodhpur. Locals in Jodhpur&nbsp;seem to have found an innovative way to scare away the insects. They took to the fields and clanged utensils to prevent locust from attacking the crops. It is believed that loud noise could keep them away.&nbsp;
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Guwahati's&nbsp;Fancy Bazaar has got an artistic makeover with graffiti&nbsp;artists taking over the walls to spread awareness about Covid-19. The bazaar is Guwahati's&nbsp;biggest market place and the artists believe that their art will&nbsp;help make an impact. The graffiti highlights the importance of following norms listed by health authorities and even pays tribute to corona warriors, who have been fighting on the frontlines of the pandemic.&nbsp;

Not all heroes wear capes, some don the khakhi uniform of a police constable. A Mumbai&nbsp;policeman turned saviour for a 14-year-old girl who had to undergo an open heart surgery and needed blood, urgently. Amid Cyclone Nisarga&nbsp;that hit Mumbai,&nbsp;family and friends couldn't make it to the hospital. PC Aakash Gaikwad volunteered to donate blood. The helpful gesture was shared on Twitter by Param Bir Singh, the Mumbai Commissioner of Police.&nbsp;

Hotels may not reopen until August end or September, shared the&nbsp;Shimla Hotel Restaurant Association. According to a report in the Hindustan Times, most tourists who visit the hill station come from states worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic such as Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat and Punjab. The president of the association&nbsp;Sanjay Sood said that it will take a couple of months to train employees to take care of guests and themselves while adjusting to the new normal. Hoteliers have requested the chief minister not to start quarantine tourism. They've also asked for Himachal&nbsp;Pradesh to be marketed as a safe destination for wellness, adventure and culinary tourism to boost ailing sectors.&nbsp;

An image of a perfectly camouflaged lizard is puzzling people on Twitter. Shared by Indian Forest Services officer Ramesh&nbsp;Pandey, who shared that there is a&nbsp;Satanic leaf-tailed lizard, native to the rain forests&nbsp;of Madagascar, hidden in plain sight in the image. The lizard's tail looks like a leaf and Twitterati&nbsp;was quick to proclaim that this might just be the 'best camouflage' they have ever seen.&nbsp;

A brother-sister duo in Jharkhand is created waves on the Internet with their dance moves seen in videos shared on TikTok. With over a million followers on the social media platform, Sanatan Kumar Mahato and his sister from Dhanbad&nbsp;perform coordinated dance routines on&nbsp;Bollywood music and leave their fans mesmerised with their infectious energy! TV host Mini Mathur, recently, shared one of the videos, which went viral on Twitter.&nbsp;

Global health experts have been emphasising&nbsp;on the importance&nbsp;of washing your hands regularly&nbsp;as a precaution against the&nbsp;Covid-19 virus. Taking the advice seriously, an&nbsp;autorickshaw driver in Kerala decided to install a tap along with a bottle of liquid soap in his vehicle! Before taking their seats, passengers must&nbsp;wash their hands as a safety measure. The 'corona innovation', seen in a TikTok video, has gone viral on social media and even caught the attention of business tycoon Harsh Goenka, who praised the invention.

Since early April, locusts have been sighted in at least four different states in the worst outbreak in almost 30 years. From using drums and utensils to mobile disc jockeys, farmers have been trying various ways to keep them at bay and protect their crops. A viral video of one farmer's desi hack is winning the Internet. Shared by the superintendent of police in Jhansi,&nbsp;it shows an airplane sitting atop a long pole placed in the middle of a field. The model creates a loud noise, believed to keep the insects away.&nbsp;It has been made with simple things such as fan blades, a plastic bottle, a cardboard tail and a can!

According to new data from the&nbsp;Mauna Loa observatory in the United States,&nbsp;carbon dioxide emissions have not reduced&nbsp;despite the Covid-19 lockdown.&nbsp;Surprisingly, the month of May saw a record high in emissions with an average of&nbsp;417 parts per million. April, however, saw a 17 percent drop in emissions as compared to last year. Researchers compared the emissions to a pile of trash. As we keep emitting, the pile keeps getting bigger, they said. The path taken after the&nbsp;lockdown&nbsp;is lifted, will determine the future for these emissions. Researchers&nbsp;urge for a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.

IIT&nbsp;couple&nbsp;Anirban Nandi&nbsp;and Poulomi Chaki Nandi&nbsp;are doing their bit to&nbsp;spread awareness about menstrual hygiene across remote villages in North Bengal. They have set up a sanitary pad bank to distribute free sanitary napkins to women. Menstrual hygiene is a major challenge for these women and the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic has made it harder for them to&nbsp;access basic necessities. The couple run the&nbsp;NGO&nbsp;Live Life Happily, and they have also been distributing&nbsp;books to needy students through their digital book bank&nbsp;during the Covid-19&nbsp;lockdown&nbsp;in India.&nbsp;

Shopping malls across Bengaluru are gearing up with enhanced safety measures to reopen on the 8th of June. Some of the preventive measures being taken include thermal scanning for visitors and employees, verification of the Aarogya&nbsp;Setu&nbsp;mobile app and mandatory hand sanitization on entering. All baggage will go through a UV disinfection channel and mall premises are already being disinfected with high grade sanitizers&nbsp;on a daily basis. Authorities will also keep a track of customer density inside the mall to prevent overcrowding.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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