Ozone and UV bulletin
The stratosphere ozone layer is slowly recovering and the recovery will be complete in most parts of the atmosphere in the coming decades, according to the latest bulletin by the World Meteorological Organization
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer
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Incessant rain in city over next 48 hours: IMD
Pune The city on Wednesday saw a lot of wind activity in most places, along with incessant rains. Even as the wind velocity in the city on Tuesday was five nautical miles per hour (knots), it was low on Wednesday but could continue to scale up with the monsoon activity increasing in central Maharashtra.
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Cloud-seeding hampered
HYDERABAD: Cloud-seeding operations could not be undertaken for the third day on Wednesday following a technical snag in the Cessna plane being used for the purpose.
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Dust from China went around the world in 13 days
Hong Kong: Dust clouds generated by a huge dust storm in China
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Why Mumbai still needs to create rain...
Mumbai The water stored in Mumbai
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Monsoon vigorous in west, erratic in north
It plays truant in Punjab, Haryana and parts of Uttar Pradesh ROAD OR RIVER? A street which was submerged after rains lashed Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
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Cloud seeding in catchment areas: BMC
MUMBAI: With levels in the lakes that supply water to the city at their lowest, the BMC on Wednesday cleared two proposals to carry out cloud seeding in the catchment areas. The decision was based on rainfall data for this monsoon so far- rain this year was 70% less than last year.
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Evidence for middle Eocene Arctic sea ice from diatoms and ice-rafted debris
The presence of ice-rafted debris (IRD) in middle Eocene ocean sediments has previously been demonstrated, but it has been unclear whether the source of IRD was land-based glacial ice or sea ice, a distinction with important climate implications.
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Rs 12cr cloud seeding plan
MUMBAI: The BMC is proposing to undertake a comprehensive cloud-seeding project at the catchments supplying water to the city. The project, which would be carried out over a period of 60 days and at a cost of Rs 12 crore, would be in addition to a seeding experiment the civic body may carry out this week.
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Uncertain monsoon and agriculture
The rainfall situation in parts of north and northwest India does not look good. Deficient rains threaten agriculture in States like Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh, although there is still some hope of a recovery. The India Meteorological Department reports that the country as a whole received
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Monsoon to be normal, insists IMD
Pravda Godbole / Pune July 15, 2009, 0:35 IST The India Meteorological Department (IMD) today maintained there would be a normal monsoon in the country this year.