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 …
K.J.M. VARMA Chinese scientists claimed to have identified a landform left by glacial erosion at least two million years ago on the QinghaiTibet Plateau. The erosion, on the southeast edge of the plateau and bordering the western provinces of Gansu and Sichuan, started two million to three million years ago …
The 6.6 magnitude earthquake that occurred north of the Andaman Islands on March 30 is yet another confirmation that this particular region will continue to be source of severe earthquakes, says a leading Indian geologist. "This is what we had been worried about," Vineet Gahalaut at the National Geophysical Research …
A thousand years after the last ice age ended, the Northern Hemisphere was plunged back into glacial conditions. For 20 years, scientists have blamed a vast flood of meltwater for causing this
The earthquake that occurred on 12 January 2010 in the vicinity of the boundary of the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates devastated the island of Haiti with tragic consequences. One of history
Uttar Pradesh has struck riches in the rugged badlands of Bundelkhand. Geologists have found mines of diamond, platinum and gold raising hopes that the region could one day turn into the proverbial El Dorado thereby alleviate the plight of the locals ravaged by drought for years. The UP government has …
Moving at a speed of a little above 18 cm per year the Indian continental plate rammed into the Eurasian trench 50 million years ago. The Himalaya erupted under the impact. But that is not where the story ended. The Himalayan tectonic plate is moving towards Central Asia at a …
If a scientist of Indian School of Mines (ISM) here is successful in his mission, disaster managers will be able to predict earthquakes and thus mitigate their impact. Paresh Nath Singha Roy, an assistant professor at the department of applied geophysics, is busy working on a research project that seeks …
Deltas around the world are either eroding or have stopped progressing. Climate change, sea level rise, flood management measures take the blame. Since a delta is formed where a river meets a standing body of water, there is talk about diverting more water and sediments into the bay to save …
Hydrogeological and geomorphological parameters have been quantitatively correlated with groundwater availability. Weathered rock thickness has the highest control on availability of groundwater followed by lineament density whereas drainage density is seen to have minimum influence. A poor correlation is noticed between borewell depth and yield. The amplitude of seasonal variations …
On an average, the North East was rocked by an earthquake every 10 days in 2009 as statistics pointed to increasing seismic activity in the region. Records with the Central Seismological Observatory in Shillong said 34
For the last two decades the world has been trying to explain how arsenic leaches into groundwater in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra floodplain. Solutions, however, are very few. An estimated 100 million people are still at risk from contamination. The latest research says floodwaters can remove arsenic. A team headed by Linda …
Kalyan Ray, New Delhi, Jan 10, DHNS: India continues to sink within itself, creating a mega self-pull in the process that has put the mighty Himalayas under severe duress, triggering earthquakes. A new theory on the formation of the world
Basel (Switzerland): A geologist on trial for causing earthquakes while drilling for hot rocks to produce clean energy has said he was surprised by the strength of the most powerful temblor. Markus Haering, who designed the geothermal project, rejected charges that he deliberately damaged properties and said local people knew …
ILLEGAL mining, both of iron-ore lumps and iron-ore fines, had picked up pace during the Madhu Koda regime, primarily in mineral-rich West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Though iron ore lumps were up for grabs by the beneficiaries of Koda
