The biennial Pacific Dragon ballistic missile defence exercise between the military of South Korea, the United States and Japan is being held, off the coast of Hawaii.
Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Jitendra Singh has launched India's first saline water lantern, 'Roshini', which uses seawater to power Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps.
Marine biologist Ellen Prager has come out with a book titled "Dangerous Earth: What we wish we knew about volcanoes, hurricanes, climate change, earthquakes and more".