Climate change was likely to cause a sharp decline in the availability of habitat for Komodo dragons, reducing their populations, according to the authors of the study. Sandalwood trees chopped and stolen in Karnataka talukThieves chopped off and fled with the wood of a number of sandalwood trees in Aurad taluk of Karnataka’s Bidar district last week, a report by The Newsminute said. On September 10, smugglers had chopped 150 sandalwood trees belonging to a farmer in a village in Shivamogga district and had fled with the wood. The study found that significant amount of dust from north Africa’s Sahara Desert is deposited every year on the Amazon. It further added that climate change will affect dust transport to South America, which could impact climate.

Source: The North Africa Journal September 20, 2020 09:31 UTC