Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raghubir Singh Garia Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 22/04/2025. The matter related to illegal mining of soap stone in village Papon, District Bageshwar, Uttarakhand. The complainant, a resident of the village said that illegal mining of soap stone …
Earlier studies said the glaciers have been retreating from the last 20,000 years, but that has now been disproved. A new study says glaciers started retreating only from the lat 258 years, writes Archita Bhatta Glaciers, both in the northern and southern hemispheres, started melting in the mid-eighteenth century, triggered …
zoology Undersea myths The mystery behind the underwater display of natural glow, seen by sailors time and again, has been solved. It is the bioluminescent marine fireworm that secretes a mucous which gives out a green glow to attract mates and ward off predators. Reported in the March issue of …
The great Sichuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 caught Earth scientists off guard. A year on, Alexandra Witze reports from the shattered towns on how researchers have learned from their failures.
NYT News Service Earthquake prediction is frustrating and scientists don't know how pieces of the Earth's crust that usually squeeze together tightly slip past each other smoothly during a large quake. Sometimes, human activity is also responsible for quakes, writes Kenneth Chang Almost all earthquakes are small. A small segment …
Earthquake study centres to be linked for integrated analysis THE Chinese claim to predict earthquakes by observing animal behaviour and phenomenon such as sudden disappearance of water from lakes and wells. Scientists around the world have tried to do the same by studying parameters like changes in seismic activity and …
The conference on 'Quaternary Geological Processes: Natural Hazards and Climate Change' came to an end on Thursday with geologists calling for improvement in the dating techniques used in study of sediments so as to gather more information about the undated sequences. The conference was organised by Lucknow University's Geology department …
This paper focuses on the shifting contours of the anti-Tehri dam movement in the past three decades. It examines the changing declarations of environmentalists, especially Sunderlal Bahuguna and other leaders of the movement on the one hand, and the involvement of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in the anti-dam politics on …
If you are talking about the Himalayas, then Mountains of Concrete is not a very apt title for a report in many ways. In fact, when a meeting to launch this report in Delhi was announced, some officials of the water resources establishment were angry. They felt this was an …
22 January, 2009 - More than 50 experts from India, Pakistan, Nepal, UK, Switzerland, Thailand and Bhutan have gathered in Paro to discuss glacial lake outburst, its threats and prevention measures. For Bhutan whose very survival depends on the stability of the lakes, officials say it is a much-needed workshop. …
life sciences It is the small ones Smaller mosquitoes are better at transmitting diseases than larger ones. Researchers in the US fed mosquitoes blood contaminated with dengue virus and tested them for infection. Smaller-sized mosquitoes showed higher infection rates and greater potential to transmit the virus. Even a slight difference …
Himalayan glaciers that feed rivers Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra are no longer accumulating ice, claims a study by American glaciologists, which could adversely hit crores of people living downstream of the vast mountain range. The researchers studying high-altitude glaciers failed to pick up radioactive signals from three ice cores collected …
Lucknow: Pointing to the geology of the Indian subcontinent, a leading geologist on Saturday warned that some regions of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh near Nepal could be prone to an earthquake. Collision course Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Director B. R. Arora who delivered the 54th Sir Albert …
A considerable amount of research has focused on how and when the Tibetan plateau formed in the wake of tectonic convergence between India and Asia1. Although far less enquiry has addressed the controls on river incision into the plateau itself, widely accepted theory predicts that steep fluvial knick points (river …
