What caused Morocco’s earthquake? A geologist studying the Atlas mountains explains
Steep slopes of the mountains and the straight lines where the Earth’s crust has cracked suggest that there has been recent movement in the …
Did life evolve more than once? Researchers are closing in on an answer
Has all of life on Earth evolved only once, or are different living beings cut from different cloths?
Yes, humans are depleting Earth's resources, but 'footprint' estimates don't tell the full story
Although Earth Overshoot Day is a compelling concept, the methodology used to calculate it and the ecological footprint on which it is based is …
New findings on human-induced drift of Earth’s rotational pole is a wake-up call
Change in mass distribution is one of the key drivers of polar motion
'We must be ready to face big earthquakes in prone areas'
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) conducted mega mock drills in prone areas to assess our preparedness in the event of large …
Deep dwellers
Life-forms have been found even inside the Earth's crust, a region previously thought to be barren
Hothouse Earth: our planet has been here before – here's what it looked like
The first Hothouse state last occurred 125,000 years ago, and the risk of a new one was raised by a study recently
Make India a ‘weather-ready’ nation
A proposal has been sent to the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, detailing the areas of concern in India’s weather forecasting system and …
Petro to Electro: It is the Dragon vs the Rest on critical minerals
There is a fight among countries to secure the greatest share of critical battery minerals and China has taken a huge early lead
Rocking the Himalayas
Indian seismic experts are in a tizzy over predictions of an imminent gigantic earthquake in the central Himalayas
This once-stable Antarctic region has suddenly started melting
The fact that so many glaciers in such a large region suddenly started to lose ice came as a surprise
Growth of renewable energy in India
Renewable energy has arrived. In matter of a decade, it has grown from a fringe player to a mainstream actor in the energy sector
Mapping Food
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Beyond home
Bill Clinton's absence from the Copenhagen summit on social development underscores the post-Cold War parochialism that has gripped the American …
The slower, the safer
Geologists in the US have discovered that earthquakes can also occur slowly causing minimal damage
Hitting rock-bottom
Certain rocks, discovered literally in the pits of the earth, could substantially change the prevailing tectonic theory
To quake or not to quake
Earthquakes occurring below oceans have been the subject of intense speculation of seismologists across the globe. Theories of the past have …
Earthy ups and downs
New images of the earth's interior show that slabs of surface rock sink to the bottom of the core
Early birds
Rocks -- 3.85 billion year old --show that battered by meteors and supposedly sterile, ancient Earth still harboured life-forms
Faking history
Most fossils, repositories of early life on Earth, may not be fossils at all. Existing evolutionary theories stand to lose ground
Why Angry with Vedanta?
The jury seems to have missed the dumping of fly ash by Vedanta in the Vansadhara River. It has also overlooked the sudden spurt in skin …
Nobody can predict earthquakes, but we can forecast them; Here’s how
Earthquake forecasts are built on observations of past earthquake activity, which may stretch back decades, centuries or even thousands of years
Plans for deep seabed mining pit renewable energy demand against ocean life in a largely unexplored frontier
Less than 10% of the deep seabed has been mapped to understand its basic structure and contents
Three Indian cities among this year’s Earth Hour challenge finalists
The 2015 National Earth Hour Capital Awards will be presented in Seoul, South Korea, on April 9
Earth sciences ministry’s revised budget estimate reduced by 22%, multiple delays cited as reasons
Ministry cited delays in procuring high-power computing devices, constructing a National Centre for Seismology building & acquiring land to …