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 …
high pressure carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) pumped from deep within the Earth may lead the rocks of the San Andreas in California to slide past each other and cause earthquakes. Scientists in California say that their theory could solve a puzzle that has troubled geologists for past so …
Geologists have discovered huge deposits of gold, silver, copper and zinc in the Manus Basin, part of the Bismarck Sea to the northeast of Papua New Guinea. These minerals were found while they were studying the formation of metal ores on the seafloor. A team led by Ray Binns of …
The Dehra Dun-based Survey of India will shortly launch a World Bank funded plan to geologically monitor the peninsular shield using Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to predict earthquakes apart from monitoring crustal movements in the subcontinent on a regular basis.
the Geological Survey of India (gsi) has identified new diamond and gold belts in the country with a potential for commercial extraction in the future. Among the newly discovered potential diamond resources are Kimberlite (diamondiferous) rocks in Raipur district of Madhya Pradesh and similar clusters in Madhur region of Andhra …
The fact that Yellowstone is a geological hot spot - a place where deep forces push through the Earth's crust and violently alter the surface - has only recently become accepted by geologists. Most hot spots lie under oceans and give birth to island chains like the Hawaiian islands. But …
Continents break up, move away and rejoin again. Such unsteady phenomenon on the Earth has been happening for ages. Recently, scientists have predicted that in 50 million years from now, the continents that broke away from one large landmass and formed Asia, Africa, Europe and Americas, would merge back. According …
A radar of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) has found long-lost ruins of temples in the jungles at Angkor, Cambodia. In the 12th century, nearly one million people were staying in the city. Scientists at the NASA have located two temple sites that are very close to each other. …
scientists in Canada say that much of the long-term changes in sea level in history are merely an illusion. According to John Mound of the University of Toronto, Canada, mirage is caused by tiny shifts in the orientation of the Earth's rotational axis that alter the distribution of water. A …
Scientists at the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, have made use of artificial intelligence techniques to detect very weak seismic signals which are otherwise difficult to detect. They have designed two artificial neural networks (ANNs) - which emulate the network of neurons (nerve cells) in humans - for detecting …
The earthquake hazard facing Southern California may be substantially less severe than scientists had calculated, according to researchers who say that they have dispelled the notion of an earthquake deficit that would trigger a stream of catastrophic temblors in the next few decades.
A University of Arizona geologist and a Yale University colleague say they can use the algae and fungus that grows on rocks, called lichens, to date prehistoric earthquakes. Prof. William Bull, a geoscience professor emeritus from the University of Arizona, and Prof. mark Brandon of Yale say they can use …
Apart from the Indian subcontinent slipping under the Tibetan plateau at the rate of 21 mm every year, there are also five faults within the Kathmandu Valley capable of producing major earthquakes. The geological structure of Kathmandu makes it further vulnerable. Many observers have "linked the soil conditions of Kathmandu …
A deatiled analysis of how building foundations are damaged due to liquefaction of the ground during a large-scale earthquake is now psssible, thanks to experiments by a research team of private, public and academic concerns led by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention.
A study provides evidence that a statistically significant amount of unusual natural phenomena immediately preceded the Great Hanshin Earthquake of January 1995 that devasted the city of Kobe. For example, the night sky was unusally bright, and snakes became active right in the middle of their winter hibernation. Osaka University …
Two seprate groups of researchers in US are proposing to look for neutrinos(the most abundant particles in the universe) under the earth's crust. The earth is liberally salted with radioactive elements. When these decay, they produce vast amounts of heat. This radiogenic heat helps to keep the mantle -the molten …
Most of the Earth's hydrogen might be trapped in the core, says Takuo Okuchi at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. The finding may help explain the puzzle of low density of the Earth's core. Studies had shown that the core is nearly 10 per cent less dense than believed. …
the collision of an asteroid with the Earth, responsible for creating a deep-sea crater off the southern coast of Chile, might have thrown life forms towards the South Pole 2.2 million years ago. For long, researchers have been trying to find out how marine life reached the dry valleys of …
A massive underwater volcano has been erupting off the Oregon coast for days, and scientists are scrambling to get closer and study how life survives deep in the ocean.
NASA has renamed the Mission to Planet Earth enterprise the Earth Science enterprise. The Earth Science enterprise is one of the four strategic enterprises of the Agency, responsible for a long term, coordinated research to study the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human induced changes on …
