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 …
This paper shows that attenuation formula for peak ground acceleration (PGA) for Chile subduction zone, derived from a homogeneous database for thrust interplate and inslab of intermediate depth earthquakes recorded on ‘hard rock’ and ‘rock and hard soil’, give systematically higher values than universal formulas proposed for subduction zones. Also …
While efforts are on by European scientists to monitor the rapidly decreasing magnetic field of the Earth through satellites, Indian researchers were the first to report the ground data from the Indian Antarctic stations at Maitri in 1995, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG) sources said here today.The study was very …
A recently discovered layer of glassy fragments could only have been made by a meteor slamming into Earth and helps prove such an impact nearly wiped out life on the planet 250 million years ago, scientists said. They outlined what they believe is an ancient crater left by the impact …
The National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) will soon prepare a geographical information system for urban areas in Kochi, which is expected to boost developmental activities. Kochi has been included in the list of cities identified for preparing the National Urban Information System. This is being done by NRSA along with …
Scientists are to dive hundreds of metres below the surface of the South Pacific Ocean to search for new forms of life thriving in the heat of underwater volcanoes. The joint Japanese-New Zealand team will use the world's deepest-diving research submarine to reach the Brothers volcano, which sits 1,850 metres …
North India's demand for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) may be answered soon. With the Petronet-LNG terminal in Dahej, Gujarat, scheduled to become operational soon, the Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) has planned to get about four million standard cubic metre of gas per day from the Dahej terminal. The …
The World's highest and most spectacular mountains, the Himalayas of Nepal, India, and Bhutan, are built on the foundations of a much older mountain system, University of Arizona (UA) geoscientists have discovered. They have dated rocks that show Himalayas is predated by ancestral mountains that existed in the same area …
Scientists from the Geoscience Australia expedition have discovered an uncharted 120-square kilometre (sq km) coral reef in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria. The reef is so far said to have escaped notice because of its remote location and due to the fact that a large portion of it lies about 20 …
A Vast reservoir of carbon is stashed beneath the Earth's crust and could be released by a major volcanic eruption, unleashing a mass extinction of a kind that last occurred 200 million years ago, German scientists say. Researchers have known for years that carbon is stored in the Earth's mantle, …
It's not everyday that physicists discover nature singing an entirely unknown tune, but that's what physicists in the US and Japan appeared to have detected in two sets of quite different experiments on opposite sides of the world. They believe they have discovered a five-quark particle, or
Desolate, cold, inhospitable, relegated to the backyards of exploration and knowledge. Antarctica did not emerge from this unfortunate fate till less than 100 years ago, before which, whalers and seafarers were its only visitors. Cartographers barely acknowledged its presence (or chose to ignore it altogether). And the first explorations, which …
It is the earth's final frontier. Antarctica, a gigantic mass of ocean-encased rocky islands south of the Antarctic Circle, is the earth's southern-most continent. There is no place colder or drier. Stark but majestic, uncompromisingly bleak but alluring, 98 per cent of the continent's 14 million kilometres (km) is sheathed …
A 1996 expert group report on the Indian Antarctic programme says: "The programme has so far been working in complete isolation with no substantial element of international cooperation. While actual attempts are being made by various countries through the aegis of SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) to join hands …
On a hot June day in 1981 S Z Qasim, then environment secretary, reached out to answer a telephone. The caller was Indira Gandhi, the prime minister. The conversation was brief and to the point. "Can India reach Antarctica?' asked the prime minister. Qasim, who had only an academic knowledge …
Geophysics in Switzerland have found the first evidence of water deep inside the earth's upper mantle. Mark Van Der Meijde and his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology analysed seismic waves from below the Mediterrarean Sea and believes that parts of the upper mantle could contain as much …
In a plot worthy of Jules Verne, a prominent California planetary scientist believes it may be possible and very educational to send a probe all the way to earth's core. "My point is to get people to realise that we have dedicated immense resources to exploring space. I'm advocating balance,'' …
A Memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on Tuesday at Ottawa between India and Canada to set up a framework for mutual cooperation in the field of geo-sciences. Mr Ramesh Bais, Union Minister for Mines, and Mr Herb Dhaliwal, Minister for Natural Resources, Canada, signed the MoU.
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has decided to upgrade the first 2X540 MW Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) Tarapur Atomic Power Project (TAPP III&IV;) to 700 MW as part of its new strategy to do away with the 540-MW range altogether. The upgradation plan for the project, …
Take some sand in a glass container; fill it with water. Shake the container. The water and sand become a single fluid mass. Now imagine a highly populated town standing on this material. You can't even imagine what will happen when an earthquake strikes . Once you know this, how …
