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 …
Oil India Ltd, a premier petroleum company of India, is planning to conduct seismic survey in total area of 4,500 sq km in eastern Assam consisting mainly of bed of river Brahmaputra and islands in the river. Such surveys are generally the first stage in oil exploration and they deploy …
The Indonesian government has decided to dump tonnes of hot mud, which forced at least 10,000 Indonesians out of their homes, into the Java Sea. The foul-smelling mud has been spurting from a crack in an exploratory oil well in East Java province since May. More than five million tonnes …
The Mediterranean region, particularly the area around Greece, could be hit by a major tsunami before the end of the century, according to Gerassimos Papadopoulos, a scientist at the Athens Institute of Geodynamics. According to data presented at the recently-held First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, a major …
There's a popular saying in western Rajasthan: Jaankhiyon laare meh. Loosely translated, it means a good rain always follows dust storms. This summer when Rajasthan's Jaisalmer and Barmer districts witnessed dust storms, people thought it augured relief after six years of drought. The rains did come but the boon fast …
At least four people were killed and thirty listed as missing after Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano erupted early on August 17. Tonnes of rocks and ash spewing from the volcano destroyed a dozen villages, affecting almost five thousand people, and blocked three rivers. Tungurahua, which means throat of fire in the …
two studies by researchers from the us, India and Japan have thrown new light on the extremely challenging science of earthquake forecasting. The first has to do with silent earthquakes
A detailed hydrogeological investigation was carried out in parts of the Central Ganga Plain, India, with the objective of assessing the aquifer framework and its resource potential. The area was studied because of its dual hydrogeological situation, that is water logging and soil salinization in the canal command areas and …
using gadgets available on three satellites, scientists at the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) have measured the complete water cycle of an entire continent
Scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad have forecast a very special type of shallow earthquake in the Koyna region of Maharashtra. It is being hailed as the first successful scientific prediction of an earthquake. Details are published in the latest issue of the Journal of Geological …
A strange sound rises from the cinnamon-coloured sand: a deep, almost hypnotic rhythm. It could almost be the chanting of Tibetan monks, a song beyond time, yet the setting is rigorous and clinical -- the laboratory of French physicist Stephane Douady, where a robot arm is pushing small, precisely measured …
coastal mangroves and green belts offer little or no protection against the power of a tsunami, according to a recent study. Conducted by the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Australia, the University of Guam, and the Wildlife Conservation Society-Indonesia Programme, the study …
The government has re-organised the department of ocean development as ministry for earth sciences and also decided to set up an Earth Commission on the lines of Atomic Energy and Space Commission. This is done to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It has been planned to set up …
Concerned over the unabated earth-cutting prevalent in the Meghalaya side of the Khanapara-Jorabat road, Dispur has sought interference of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, to check the menace. The earth-cutting has been going on in these areas, especially in the Ribhoi district, Assam, triggering serious imbalances …
National Institute of Design is stepping into rarefied fields. The institute may set up a task group if it gets a nod from the Union Ministry of Science and Technology for its two-year mission to evolve a design-oriented geo-visualisation technology. Geo-visualisation, a technology that was so far restricted to niche …
monsoon rains may trigger fresh disasters for the people who survived last year's earthquake in Pakistan, if urgent action is not taken, warn experts. The tremor on October 8, 2005, caused a massive landslide in Hattian Bala tehsil of Muzaffarabad at the confluence of two streams
The longest cave system in the Indian subcontinent has been discovered in Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills district by an international team of spelaeologists, reports PTI. The team found a cave system over 22.20 km long, which surpasses the previous known record of 21.55 km of another system existing in the same …
factoring in ocean colour data in the remote sensing technique used for fishery forecasts can vastly improve the reliability of prediction as well as the fish catch, claim Indian scientists. Satellite-based forecasts usually rely only on sea surface temperature data. The method's reliability is just 50 per cent, though it …
Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia at such a clip that Alaska might lose its spectacular Northern Lights in the next 50 years, scientists said. Despite accelerated movement over the past century, the possibility that Earth's modestly fading magnetic field will collapse is …
