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 …
An eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary islands could trigger one of the worst disasters ever recorded, British and US scientists warn today. A lump of rock twice the volume of the Isle of Man would slide down the unstable western flank of the mountain at more …
Britain may be threatened by a monster wave that is predicted to devastate the coasts of Florida and Brazil. The mega-tsunami generated by part of a mountain twice the size of the Isle of Man falling into the sea would be the biggest ever recorded in history. Scientists warn the …
Five strong earthquakes have shaken India in the last decade, and new evidence has convinced scientists that much worse appears not only inevitable, but overdue. An analysis of the shifting subcontinent found enormous pent-up strain along most of the 1,200-mile arc where it slides under the Himalayas and the Tibetan …
Giant ocean waves could slam into the East Coast if a volcano across the Atlantic in the Canary Islands splits open, two scientists warn. The Cumbre Vieja volcano last erupted in 1949. It has not shown any recent indications of activity, but the threat could become real someday.
A study of the seismic stresses building up in the Himalayan region as a result of two shifting tectonic plates has reportedly led researchers at the University of Colorado to arrive at the conclusion that a really nasty earthquake of more than 8 magnitude is imminent in the Subcontinent, putting …
India, Pakistan and other nations in the Himachal region are overdue for one or more massive earthquakes that could imperil 50 million people and cause an unprecedented loss of life, scientists said. Writing in the journal Science, geophysicists Roger Bilham and Peter Molnar of the University of Colorado and Vinod …
A strong earthquake will probably occur relatively soon along the Himalayan mountains, putting more than 50 million people at risk and threatening cities in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan, researchers say.In a study in the journal Science, scientists say that at least one earthquake of 8.1 to 8.3 magnitude …
Nations in the Himalayan region are at risk of a massive earthquake that could devastate large urban areas in Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan, a study published in the renowned American scientific journal Science says. The study is authored by geologist Roger Bilham and Peter Molnar of the University …
Indian Rare Earths Ltd and Rare Earths Association of India are jointly organising a 3-day national seminar on Processing and Application or Rare Earths in India at Munnar from August 17 to 19.
Mr Ravi Shanker, Director-General of the Geological Survey of India (GSI), has called for the creation of a Ministry of Earth Sciences so that the nation's development activity is integrated eith the efforts at long-term environment protection.
Bhutan need not worry about a major earthquake disaster in the near future as predicted in a recent report in the US, according to a JICA expert working with the Geological Survey of Bhutan, Dr. Motegi.
The tremors felt in New Delhi at 10.56 p.m. yesterday measured 2.6 on the Richter Scale. The epicentre has located 18 kilometres north-east of Lodhi Road. According to a seismologist in the Indian Meterological Department, Dr S N Bhattacharya Delhi experiences about 20 eathquakes of magnitude 2 and below on …
ever since humans learnt to walk upright, they have made a conscious effort to gain control over all the things that affect them. From domesticating wild beasts millions of years ago, to decoding the complexities of the human genome this century, an insatiable urge to play God has always facinated …
Sometime back, the geophysicists of the University of Colorado at Boulder, had warned that the central Himalayas in India are due to suffer an earthquake in the magnitude of 8 to 9 on the richter scale, which would devastate a region with a population of more than 2000 million and …
The first squealls of a geomagnetic storm described as "severe" by space-weather forecasters swept past the Earth Thursday . The 1.6 million mph impact by the cloud of ionized gas and electro-magnetic energy rattled electric power grids in the Northeast, and at least one commercial satellite briefly lost its bearings. …
The prestigious Earthquake Research Centre (ERC) which successfully recorded the date of nuclear explosion in Pakistan and Pokhran in May, 1998, failed to record the recent tremors in the Hindukush region and Punjab. The highly sophisticated machineary of international standards worth crores has been lying unused for the past several …
The sea floor in the Arabian Sea is expanding by five cm a year leading to increasing seismic activity in the Koyna region of western Maharashtra which has seen more than a lakh tremors in the past 35 years. According to a leading seismologist Dr J G Negi, the Koyna …
Geoscientists: The icy South Pole was once warm, with tropical rainforests, geoscientists said on Saturday on their return from a two-month trip aboard a drill ship, digging up dirt from beneath the ocean floor.During the ocean drilling programme the 30 scientists unearthed and studied an area of soil containing hidden …
Scientists: Scientists in Britain say that the earth is at risk from a possible "volcanic winter". Britain's Geological Society says that here is reason to be concerned about the possibility of a 'supervolcano' erupting. It says that such an eruption could eject enough gas, dust and debris into atmosphere to …
