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 artist's rendition of the Lunar Prospector shows the spacecraft in lunar orbit. The Lunar Prospector hit the moon on July 31, 1999. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, using the Hubble Space Telescope, failed to detect water in the plume created by Prospector 's impact
a bizarre phenomenon has been reported from the Chawlibasa village in East Singhbhum district of Bihar. A portion of a house belonging to Shyamal Ghosh has become unusually hot and has caused panic among the residents of the area. The floor remains hot even during the night. Ghosh has reported …
if the latest findings by scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research are found to hold water, the various views on the desertification of the Sahara may soon be turned upside down. In a research paper, published in the July 15 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, they concluded …
Two vast ancient glacial lakes which long ago gushed out of what is now northern Canada into the North Atlantic caused the most abrupt cold snap of the past 10,000 years, scientists said yesterday. Researchers at the University of Colorado in Boulder estimated that more than one trillion cubic metres …
Researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research recently concluded that changes in Earth's orbti might have initiated the formation of the Sahara Desert. Using a new research model, the CLIMBER-2, scientists discovered that the Sahara's transition from a grassy, shrub-covered area to an arid region occured relatively quickly …
Volcanologists today warned those living on the slopes of the restive Mayon Volcano in east Philippines to watch out for "sudden explosive activity," which could herald an eruption. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said more high frequency tremors, indicating magma movement, were detected in the past 24 hours …
THERE are more reasons against than in favour of the Pakistan government's decision to build the Diamer dam in the Kohistan district of the north west frontier province (nwfp) along the Karakorum Highway (kh). Experts say that the dam will cause serious environmental damage to the entire region, besides being …
geoscientists and physicists in Assam have warned that the northeastern parts of India and western Burma are likely to be rocked by mega-earthquakes, measuring about eight on the Richter scale, any time during the next decade. The region is one of the six most earthquake-prone areas in the world with …
the theories of how the continents were formed may have to be revised. Scientists have discovered a continent that rose above the Indian Ocean at least three times over a period of 80 million years, only to disappear beneath the waves every time. It has been discovered on the seabed …
Scientists have unearthed a seam of precious metal on the Scottish island of Rum. Duncan Pirrie, a geologist at the Camborne School of Mines, UK, found grains of platinum in the sediment of streams on the island, which prompted him to look for the metal in the surrounding rocks. Although …
Bacteria thrive beneath glaciers where their activity can erode rocks, say Canadian and British geologists. Martin Sharp of the University of Alberta in the UK and his colleagues found colonies of bacteria growing and producing carbon dioxide under two Swiss glaciers. Once dissolved in water, the gas weathers the rocks …
Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said they have discovered an active underwater volcano in the Samoa Islands. While volcanos are all over the Pacific ocean floor, an active one of this size - 4,300 meters is considered an important scientific find.
Experts from the National Vulcanology and Seismology Institute (OVSICORI) said last week that the major earthquake expected to hit Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula on the Pacific coast since 1991 will most likely strike in the next five years, activating a series of local faults that will unleash quakes of five …
Experts : Sunday night's quake that centred in the central Himalayan region bears proof of the continuing northward movement of the Indian landmass since it rammed into Eurasia 80 million years ago, according to scientists of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) at Dehradun.
Seismological experts are closely monitoring the situation in more than two dozen villages in Pandhana tehsil in Khandwa district of Western Madhya Pradesh from where 1,170 tremors and underground noises have been reported during the last five months. Replying to a calling attention notice, the State Revenue Minister, Mr. Prem …
The Himalayas are the result of a powerful collusion of the earths plates in the snow-capped mountain range, a report said today. The tremendous power of the plates grinding against each other not only threw up the highest mountain of the world, Mt Everest, and the 3,000 to 5,000 meter-high …
scientists at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany ( bsip ), Lucknow, have discovered a 3.2 billion-year-old fossil of blue-green algae in Singhbhum, north Orissa. They say that this could be the oldest life form in Indian geological history. The search for the oldest biological remains began in 1992. The …
The earth deep underneath quake-hit Greece and Turkey is fracturing like a pane of glass, increasing the possibility of further tremors in the region, a British seismologist said. "It's a bit like a crack in a piece of glass. If you're moving a crack then you put all the stress …
LIFE on the Earth was a result of a momentous event in the pre-Cambrian era (one billion to two billion years ago). Levels of oxygen rose in the planet's atmosphere, leading to an explosive development of life. But the increase in oxygen levels and its dating has always been somewhat …
A three-day international symposium on earthquake hazard assessment and earth's interior aspects will be organised, at the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad, from 1 December. The symposium would be attended by 150 scientists, including 65 foreign delegates particularly from Asia.
