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 …
parts of Kerala have recently received red coloured rain. The first incident of the coloured rain was reported from Chaganasseri district, followed by many others. Scientists from the Thiruvananthapuram-based Centre for Earth Science Studies (cess) have come up with many theories about its causes. Soon after the incident they tested …
The ghost cave in Himalayan region of Bhutan has recorded the first limestone to be found. Located near a grazing patch an hour's walk from Ugyen Chhoeling, the cave is considered by experts to be a significant discovery that would help study the geo- history of the Himalayas.
Scientists on Friday unveiled a $20 million system expected to revolutionise the study of earthquakes by measuring the earth's movements down to the milimeter. The Southern California Integrated Global Positioning System Network (SCIGN), a joint project by universities and federal agencies including the US Geological Survey and NASA, uses satellites …
The Hawaiian Islands trigger an extraordinary interaction between wind and ocean that extends thousands of miles. This island effect is much larger than has ever been observed by scientists before. The scientists report appears in the June 15 issue of the journal Science.
The Deccan Trap geology of Bombay (Mumbai) differs from the main Deccan flood basalt province in several ways. Very few geological, geochemical and geochronological studies exist on the Deccan geology of Bombay. The basalt of Gilbert Hill, Andheri occupies a special place in Bombay geology on account of its spectacular …
The evidence geologists have gathered suggests that something deep underground - something like a magnifying glass in the rock - focused the power of the Northridge quake onto the unsuspecting city of Santa Monica in the U.S. A controversial idea, but the evidence in its favour is growing. Many seismologists …
The magic of the Himalaya is heady. It has led many researchers and travelers to record their impression of this mountain range. Himalaya : Life on the edge of the world, is one such labour of love by David Zurick and PP Karan both professors of geography at the Eastern …
Baja California, the 760-mile-long peninsula off the northwestern coast of Mexico, was wrenched from mainland Mexico by a series of earthquakes that began 6.5 million years ago, researchers say.Geologists have long known that movement along the boundary separating two plates in the Earth's crust tore Baja California from the rest …
Earthquakes, volcanoes, shifting continents and even climate change are driven by a type of heat engine working deep beneath the earth's surface, Canadian scientists said yesterday. They have developed a model of the inner workings of the earth that explains the mystery of how features on the surface of the …
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, shifting continents and even climate change are driven by a type of heat engine working deep beneath the earth's surface, Canadian scientists said on Wednesday.
More than 100 years after an earthquake killed thousand of people near the India-Bangladesh border, scientists on Wednesday said they have finally figured out what caused the devastating rumble.
The mystery of what caused a great earthquake in northeast India in 1897 that killed several thousand people and reduced all masonry buildings in a region roughly the size of England finally appears to have been solved. University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Roger Bilham and Oxford University Professor Philip …
An ancient lake that once existed between Victoria and Tasmania has been explored by Australian geoscientists who hope to find out whether a mini ice age occurred in the southern hemisphere 11,000 years ago. A scientific expedition led by Neville Exon, project leader of seabed mapping at the Australian Geological …
Minister of state for urban development Bandaru Dattatreya told the Rajya Sabha that the Delhi Development Authority has asked the architects of various multi-storey buildings in Delhi to re-inspect their buildings from the point of view of seismic resistance.
Antarctica may appear to be a land frozen in time, but it certainly is not still. Glaciers plow down the continent's center to the sea, icebergs snap off and crash into the ocean, and great rivers of ice snake through the ice sheet, evidence of a dynamic relationship between this …
By accident, scientists peering into icy waters far beneath the North Pole have found a hidden world of fire. Buried in sonar readings taken by a Navy submarine to create a map of the ocean floor, the scientists discovered two large volcanoes that had recently convulsed the Arctic seabed. The …
Scientists of the Department of Physics, Moscow State University, have proposed to predict earthquakes by measuring polarization of the solar light that is reflected from the surface of the Earth. The small and cheap equipment, which the scientists have designed, can be placed on meteorological satellites.
Tens of thousands are feared dead after the Bhuj earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat. Horrifyingly, seismologists think that for India the worst in probably yet to come. Roger Bilham, a geologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, believes that more than 60% of the Himalayan region to …
Future earthquakes could inflict the severest shaking and greatest damage on a densely populated area of Southern California that stretches from the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles to the wealthy suburbs of Orange County, according to a study Tuesday."We find that the area extending from approximately the Los Angeles Memorial …
