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 …
There is a growing body of evidence that suggests, somewhat controversially, that large meteorite impacts not just throw up huge dust clouds but also punch right through the Earth's crust, triggering gigantic volcanic eruptions. Scientists believe that the Earth's geology has largely been driven by such events. This also explains …
More than 30 magnitude-7 quakes have rocked Turkey over the past century. Sandvol, geologists from Cornell University and several Turkish researchers recently completed a manjor project in which they observed and measured the earth's movement in eastern Turkey, an area that is geologically active because two major continental plates are …
Union Minister for coal and mines Uma Bharati on Wednesday stressed the need to strengthen earth sciences to meet the climate change challenge at the inaugural ceremony of the 3-day-long Fourth South Asia Geological Congress in the Capital. Addressing the climate change challenge, Ms Bharati said, "The issues of global …
November 15Legend has it that the beautiful goddess Saraswati sprung from the forehead of her father Brahma, the god of creation. It is said that as soon as Brahma looked at her beauty, he was filled with desire for her. Unhappy with the amorous attentions he bestowed upon her, she …
On Sunday, villagers noticed that the rocks on the Mansalapur Hill, five km from Raichur, Karnataka began making strange noises. Closer investigation revealed that the rocks had developed cracks overnight. The next morning, the cracks had developed into a clearly visible breach. Even geologists are not being able to figure …
GEOENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS IN HIMALAYA . Bindhy Wasini Pandey . Published by Mittal Publications . New Delhi . 2002 . 430 pages This book is a research-based analysis of the geomorphic and hydrological hazards in the upper Beas basin of the Himalaya together with their mapping and mitigation strategies. It describes …
The Himalayan arc, 40% of which ruptured in the last two centuries, has witnessed half a dozen large to great earthquakes including the 1833 and 1934 Bihar
Five people were killed and two were missing on Wednesday in Northeastern Turkey, bringing the death toll from two days of flooding and rain storms across a swathe of the country to at least 16.
Earth's population will be forced to colonise two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate, a damning report reveals. A study by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), released on Tuesday, warns that the human race is plundering the planet at a pace …
Some NASA scientists went weightless to test a new manufacturing process for aerogel, a high tech foam that could revolutionize just about everything from refrigerator design to space craft. Aerogel is pure silicon dioxide or sandlike glass but 1000 times less dense. The 'amazing properties' include being the lightest solid …
NASA's mission to understand and protect our home planet will mark a major milestone this spring with the launch of the Aqua satellite. Aqua, due to bring us unprecedented insight of our world's global water cycle, is the latest sibling in a family of Earth Observing System satellites dedicated to …
Hopes that beneath the Earth's crust lurk fathom less reservoirs of hydrocarbons that will top up today's fast depleting oil and gas fields are wrong, says a study. The idea was launched a couple of decades ago by a US astronomer and physicist, Thomas Gold. He challenged the conventional idea …
According to American geo-physicist if pole follows its present course, it might leave Canada and pass through north of Alaska, arriving in Siberia in a half century, but they cautioned that such predictions could prove wrong. Although it has been moving north or northwest for a hundred years, it is …
The Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan, a prominent activist group working for the cause of the victims of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster, has threatened to file a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court seeking directives to the Madhya Pradesh Government and the Bhopal Municipal Corporation for …
Dr. S N Prasad, senior scientist at the Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), has been selected for the joint award of the National Mineral Award - 2001 of the Union Ministry of Coal and Mines. The award is in recognition of his contribution in the areas of geophysics as …
Regional gravity and magnetic surveys were carried out over the Archaeoan-Proterozoic Crystallines of Betul district, Madhya Pradesh covering an area of 130 sq.km. Uranium mineralization in the area is hoted by the graphitic schist unit of older metasediments of Sonaghati and Junawani areas. Original Source
Benny Peiser, an anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University has shown through a computer simulation that more than 1,000 fatal impacts in a 100,000-year period. These fatal impacts were mostly airbursts over land. For instance, a 60-meter-wide object blew up above a remote Siberian forest. Other blasts occurred in or …
the mystery shrouding the sudden collapse of Middle East civilisations more than 4,000 years ago might just have been solved. A two-mile-wide circular depression which looks like an impact crater has been found through studies of satellite images of southern Iraq. Scientists say that the depression raises the possibility of …
Indian and French scientists have formed a task force that will work out how they can cooperate with each other on studying seismically active zones. The workshops was held to define the core themes that would be discussed next year at the main seminar on seismic risks and disaster management.
Not much notice was taken of the mild tremor felt in the Thane region on November 16, but seismic geologist V. Subramanyam says it was significant as it shows that the region between Kalyan and Panvel is seismically active.
