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 …
A team of scientists announced yesterday that massive underwater eruptions of gas are the likely causes of mysterious rifts in the ocean floor off Virginia, bolstering the researchers' theory that tidal waves could someday menace the mid-Atlantic coast.The three scientists, who just returned from a two-week research mission at sea, …
A committee monitoring volcanic activity at Mt. Usu in southwestern Hokkaido (Japan) announced Monday that in light of the fact that volcanic activity in the mountain has been gradually subsiding, it is possible the 732-meter volcano may stop erupting soon. It was the first time that volcanologists had suggested the …
Experts at a workshop rated Dhaka as one of the 20 major earthquake-prone cities in the world and warned that there would be a complete catastrophe if a severe earthquake should hit it. Jointly organised by Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief and Disaster Management Bureau, the National Workshop on …
The Earth's oceans are going to dry up and disappear in approximately a billion years. Anyway by then there would be no human beings to mourn the loss as much of the carbon dioxide would have been used up, killing majority of the plants, which not only sustain the rest …
Researchers have recently found that certain geologic phenomena may exist that could lead to better predictions of earthquakes on the San Andreas fault, which affects San Francisco. The rubbing slabs that form the fault seem to produce less heat than other faults, suggesting that it is lubricated somehow and is …
Geologists have known for long that formation of mountains affects the Earth's ecosystems. But due to the uncertainty in establishing the age of the highest mountains, the relationship between formation of topography and tectonic processes is unclear. One way to ascertain the variation of physical features is the effect that …
two French geophysicists have claimed that the combined force of the wobble of the Earth's spinning core and the gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon may have triggered massive volcanic eruptions in the past. They have put forward a model that correlates these activities leading to eruption of …
a specially designed satellite of the us National Space and Aeronautical Administration ( nasa ) has tracked the electrons moving out from the Earth's poles. These electrons are believed to be the cause of the mysterious "dark aurora' that breaks up the curtains of light in the auroral displays. Aurora …
the Himalaya mountains are among the youngest ranges in the world - its formation having begun only around 100 million years ago and still continuing. The range was formed by the collision of the Indian and Tibetan plates which lie below the Earth's surface and are continuously moving. With the …
The tremors that shook Bhavnagar recently have led to a shift in focus from the Himalayan region to an area closer home-Kutch. Experts and government agencies are now studying the intense mountain-building activity in the Kutch region that leaves it vulnerable to quakes.
Researchers setting out to sea from the Virginia coast this weekend hope to find answers to a new scientific riddle: Could tsunamis, the large destructive waves that have terrorized Japan and the rest of the Pacific for centuries, pose a threat to the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States as …
A sharp elevation, similar to the emergence of a mountain, has been confirmed on the northwest side of the crater that formed last Friday on the 537-meter Nishiyama peak of Mt. Usu, according to a team of Hokkaido University's Volcano Observatory experts monitoring the 732-meter Mt. Usu from a helicopter …
the much-talked about phenomenon of global warming was in the news recently following an unusual experiment. The British scientific weekly Nature reported that scientists from the University of Michigan and the University of Western Ontario, using hundreds of boreholes, found that heat radiates from the Earth's molten core towards the …
The recent earthquakes in Turkey, Taiwan and southern California were the most monitored in history, but months later scientists are just beginning to understand the data. A record number of instruments on the ground and in space analysed every quiver of the ground before, during and after the earthquakes, but …
unbelievable, but true, ice crystals found inside the seafloor have more energy than all the world's fossil fuels put together. Before the 1970s, scientists did not even know that they existed under the sea. But several expeditions later, some startling findings have come to light about methane hydrate - a …
Continent giving birth to ocean: The Arabian geological plate, the land mass that is now Saudi Arabia and Yemen, is struggling to break free and drift north of the fixed Nubia and Solalia plates, which also hold Ethiopia, Eritera and Djibouti, scientists say. The tectonic battle has raged for 30 …
