Urban areas are currently responsible for ~70% of the global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and rapid ongoing global urbanization is increasing the number and size of cities. Thus, understanding city-scale CO2 emissions and how they vary between cities with different urban densities is a critical task. While the relationship …
A Nasa mission revealed Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan lost 109 cubic km of water in six years. With pumps being sunk in ever deeper, a bad monsoon has only shown how close to the edge we live Rajeev Deshpande & Nitin Sethi Nasa's twin GRACE satellites orbitting the earth in …
Iffco Tokio Working On Settling Crop & Cattle Insurance Claims Based On Images & RFID Tags WITH traditional forms of farm insurance being subject to a high degree of moral hazard, insurers are relying on technology. Iffco Tokio General Insurance, which is promoted by the largest fertiliser co-operative in the …
Disappearing ground water could be the mother of all crises A study based on satellite imagery, by the US National Aeronautical and Space Administration (Nasa), says that North India
Mumbai: Using Nasa satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as 33 cm (one foot) per year over the past decade. Researchers have concluded that the loss is almost entirely due to human activity, says a news release from Nasa
Mumbai: Using Nasa satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as 33cm (one foot) per year over the past decade. Attributing the loss almost entirely to human activity, Nasa
This latest study based on NASA satellite data says that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as one foot per year over the past decade and the loss is almost entirely due to human activity. Shows that more than 26 cubic miles of groundwater disappeared …
Groundwater is a primary source of fresh water in many parts of the world. Some regions are becoming overly dependent on it, consuming groundwater faster than it is naturally replenished and causing water tables to decline unremittingly. Indirect evidence suggests that this is the case in northwest India, but there …
A Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station said on Sunday it looks like Earth's ice caps have melted a bit since he was last in orbit 12 years ago. Bob Thirsk, who is two months into a planned six-month stay aboard the station, said he is mostly in awe …
A total solar eclipse on Wednesday swept across a narrow swathe of Asia, where hundreds of millions of people watched the skies darken, though in some places thick summer clouds blocked the sun. The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century cut through the world's most populous nations, India …
In a startling discovery, an amateur Australian astronomer has spotted a giant hole, the size of the Earth, on planet Jupiter - a finding corroborated by US space agency NASA. Anthony Wesley said he spotted the dark "scar" which had suddenly appeared on Jupiter through a homemade telescope, from the …
AHMEDABAD: In case the weather plays spoilsport on Wednesday, eclipse lenticulars, an innovative, weather-proof and all time total solar eclipse cards which is handy and provides a feeling of total solar eclipse observation in the sky designed especially by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), could be useful to enthusiasts. …
Washington: There are still many secrets waiting to be gleaned from Moon rocks collected by Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago. Randy Korotev, of Washington University-St Louis, has studied lunar samples and their chemical compositions since he was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. He
The next two decades will see another human being setting foot on the moon--------- On July 20, we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was one of those moments when the world watched with awe as men took their first steps onto another world. …
The next two decades will see another human being setting foot on the moon--------- On July 20, we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was one of those moments when the world watched with awe as men took their first steps onto another world. …
New Nasa satellite measurements show that sea ice in the Arctic is more than just shrinking in area, it is dramatically thinning. The volume of older crucial sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk by 57% from the winter of 2004 to 2008. That
