Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Advocating to follow Gandhiji’s message for Sustainability of Himalayas, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Friday said pressure of population and exploitation of natural resources are extracting a heavy toll on the mountain range. She said such increasing pressures on the fragile eco-system need to be checked with proper governance. She …
The 4.2 magnitude earthquake experienced in and around Delhi on Wednesday night was felt more strongly than its reading on the Richter scale suggested because of the fact that the origin of the waves lay in close proximity to the city and not very deep below the earth’s surface, scientists …
The Indian Ocean bed promises to be the next frontier for earth system scientists in the country. India, who has been granted mining rights for 75,000 sq km of the ocean bed in the central Indian Ocean by the International Seabed Authority, plans to expedite its activities in the region. …
The Government plans to conduct a major oceanic survey in the country's territorial waters, including parts of the Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Cambay and Andaman Sea, to look for prospects of under-sea mineral resources and natural gas. The Ministry of Earth Sciences is taking up this initiative along with …
India Shows Urgency After World Body Allows China To Explore Ocean For Sulphides New Delhi: Having been delivered a wake-up blow from China, the government is scrambling to put together a policy on deep-sea mining for minerals in south and central Indian Ocean. Cabinet secretary A K Seth told a …
AJMER: The Union ministry of earth sciences predicts that Rajasthan will have huge sandstorms in the future as an effect of climate change. The state is now in the danger zone 3 of earthquake. The ministry has decided to build observatories in various parts of the country to calculate the …
NEW DELHI: The potential for enhancing collaborative polar research between India and Norway is immense. This was the message of the Indo-Norwegian meeting titled
Penguin tales: A weeklong exhibition on the polar region now on at the National Science Centre on Bhairon Road in the Capital. The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi in collaboration with the National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean Science, Goa, and the …
Pune The Ministry of Earth Sciences has requested the state government to part with 17 gunthas of land in Mahabaleshwar for its cloud-seeding project, for which it had got a green signal early in the year. City-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), which will be operating the centre, is …
Sudha Nambudiri KOCHI: The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) is awaiting suggestions from national stakeholder institutions before giving clearance for the construction of country's first icebreaker research vessel for polar expeditions. New Delhi-based Grintex India Limited, shipping design consultants, has been identified by the National Centre for Antartic and Ocean …
While releasing norms for management of urban flooding, NDMA member M Shashidhar Reddy, MLA, said two major causes, which lead to urban flooding, are improper disposal of solid waste and encroachments. The member emphasised the need for public awareness to deal with these issues. Realising that the causes of urban …
The first green Commonwealth Games will have a unique system of air quality forecasting and research (SAFAR) that has been installed by the ministry of earth sciences (MoES). The MoES has set up 11 air quality monitoring stations, 35 automatic weather in NCR along with GPS sound observations and Doppler …
New Delhi: In a bid to study earthquakes more closely, Indian scientists are preparing to send probes to greater depths to monitor changes in the earth's crust; perhaps the first such project in this part of the world. The scientists are planning to drill a borehole up to eight kilometres …
Sudha Nambudiri KOCHI: Depleting groundwater resources, unexpected floods, cloudbursts and irregular monsoons are an indication that India is showing signs of climate change. As a part of an initiative to study the various changes happening in view of the global climate change, the Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Natural …
The Union government proposes to have a National Mission on Monsoon in the hope that a concerted effort will improve monsoon prediction. The dry bed of the Korampallam tank, used for irrigation in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu in October 2009. The year saw a severe drought, with large deficits in rainfall …
BHUBANESWAR: Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management Surjya Narayan Patro today informed the Assembly that the Ministry of Earth Science had set up 37 automatic weather stations in the State. To a question from Rajendra Kumar Das (BJD), the Minister said there is a proposal to set up such weather …
Much research has now been conducted into the representation of climate change in the media. Specifically, the communication of climate change from scientists and policy-makers to the public via the mass media has been a subject of major interest because of its implications for creating national variation in public understanding …
