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 …
india has thin land roots. That's why it moved about five times faster and further away than other landmasses when it broke apart from its mother supercontinent
Indonesia's Anak Krakatoa volcano rumbled early on November 2, emitting red-hot stones and lava. Two other volcanoes in the island nation are also spewing plumes of hot ash and gases. Authorities, however, say there will be no major eruption from Anak Krakatoa. They are, however, worried about Mount Kelud on …
there could be a link between disturbances in the ionosphere and the Earth's magnetic field, and earthquakes. Such disturbances preceded the quake that struck Gujarat on March 7, 2006. A study says the disturbance were caused by the changes in the electromagnetic radiations over the Earth before the tremors occur. …
The construction of a section of Russia's Sakhalin II oil pipeline project resumed from August 1, 2007, a few days after it was suspended after allegations that its safety link violated the approved design plans. The Sakhalin Rostekhnadzor, the regional environment agency, had suspended the construction of a trunk pipeline …
Saturday, July 7. It's day 18 of an indefinite hunger strike by tribespeople of Sikkim's Lepcha community and there's no end in sight. Protests against the imminent influx of a series of dams on the river Teesta and its tributaries in the remote mountain regions of North Sikkim district have …
A valley full of rare geysers and thermal vents in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula disappeared on June 3 after an entire mountainside collapsed only to reappear few days later after a drop in the water level in the lake, formed by the landslide. The Valley of the Geysers is one of …
The two-week long 30th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting concluded on May 11 in New Delhi. Among other resolutions, India's proposal to set up its third base station was accepted. U R Rao, chairman of the meeting, talks to Archita Bhatta on the resolutions and measures agreed upon to save Antarctica's …
This cave of crystals, buried around 300 metres below Naica mountain in Mexico's Chihuahuan desert, contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found. The cave (10 metre wide, 30 metre long) is a horseshoe-shaped cavity in limestone. Its translucent beams, jutting out from crystalline floor and blocks, measure up …
new fossil finds in the Vindhyan basin in central India have, for the first time, fixed the age of the evolutionarily significant mountain basin, not very long ago considered palaentologically dead. In the first record of extensive fossil assemblage unearthed from the basin, Chirananda De of the Geological Survey of …
Geoscientists have discovered huge rock formations off Greenland's southwestern coast, which they believe are remains of Earth's crust created when the sea floor split some 3.8 billion years ago. Though geo-chemical analysis has set the date of plate tectonics to 2.5 billion years ago, this is the first study to …
in what could provide vital clues into the evolution of continents in the present form, scientists now have evidence that the earth's mantle contains a water reservoir the size of the Arctic Ocean. Studying seismograms, a group of geoscientists recently uncovered the first evidence of water in the earth's deep …
Scientists have discovered a giant water-bearing area hundreds of kilometres beneath eastern Asia. Termed an "underground ocean', this cave system is almost the size of the Arctic Ocean. Researchers discovered it while observing how seismic waves from distant earthquakes pass through Earth's mantle. The zone of moisture-bearing rocks, 700 to …
After struggling for nine months with hot torrents of mud, Indonesian officials are now experimenting with a new strategy to contain the noxious matter. In the last week of February, they dropped 300-400 kg concrete balls into the crater of the mud volcano. Over the next few weeks, they plan …
Scientists recently presented fresh evidence of the possibility of water having once flowed on Mars. A nasa spacecraft currently orbiting Mars has captured photographs that depict equatorial ridges on Mars that could have been formed by running water. Geologists believe the ridges were created through chemical changes caused by the …
scientists have always been puzzled by hills mysteriously rising from the sea floor in the Arctic Ocean. A paper recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters (Vol 34 No 1) offers an explanation: methane bubbling through seafloor sediments is the source of the swellings. These hills are called
Researchers at the University of Leicester and the British Geological Survey have a new plan to find ways to do away with carbon dioxide: store it in huge underground reservoirs. The study, published in the journal Planet Earth, looks at ways of containing carbon dioxide as a hydrate at cool …
it might just be easier to predict earthquakes now. uk-based Leicester University researchers have successfully used a technology to detect fault lines, the causal location of earthquakes. The researchers used the light detection and ranging (lidar) method to detect fault line movements, which help predict earthquakes. Earthquake prediction lidar helps …
A new radar instrument, called the Global Ice Sheet Mapping Orbiter (gismo) has enabled scientists to see through more than a mile of Greenland ice. The radar revealed an image of land that has been hidden for millions of years, said Ohio State University scientists, while revealing the radar's first …
