‘Predictions wrong, but give indications’

India Meteorological Department is often accused of making incorrect predictions. The Ministry of Earth Sciences regularly gets funds to …

A perplexing water cycle

Agricultural areas get no rain, urban areas face water logging  

Satellite images help monitor ocean warmth

Meteorologists can now use satellite pictures to keep track of hot spots in the Pacific.

Responsibility in a unified world

Pollution, not rice accumulated methane

Storm and dust

Small is deadly

Pollutants in space

Do cancer-causing compounds exist beyond earth's atmosphere?

Indo-French satellite to help forecast drought

Carbon overload

Land and oceans may fail to retard rise of atmospheric CO2

More carbon dioxide spurring plant growth

New measurement techniques show the level of atmospheric oxygen is decreasing in direct proportion to the burning of fossil fuels. These …

Nature's laboratory

The ice cover almost 4.8 km thick is perhaps the most valuable feature of Antarctica, with its record of past atmospheres in the trapped air bubbles

Hope for Earth

We are producing less CFCs - the main agent for ozone depletion. That, say experts, is a good sign

Fuel for thought

To reduce the level of carbon in the atmosphere, growing and using biomass as an energy substitute for fossil fuels is of greater advantage than …

Monsoon dates to be revised

Met department says monsoon activity has shifted in the past 60 years  

No lesser evil

Hazy about untimely fog that caused blackouts

Ozone

Nature's forecasters

Monsoon maps on trees

Growth rings allow for future prediction of drought  

Science & Technology - Briefs

Inbuilt storage

Earth's mantle could be holding three times the water found in oceans

Pollution pangs

High ground-level ozone increases appendicitis risk

Cloud view clears up

Origin of aerosols dictates cloud shape

'Village level forecast will take time'

What prevents Indian scientists from making weather forecasts for farmers? Sailesh Naik, secretary to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, tells …