Warm without carbon dioxide

CO 2 had nothing to do with the Miocene era global warming

Saraswati underground

Experts attempt to map the mythical river's palaeo-channels and put them to good use

Reef ahoy!

Tsunami unravelled

New studies provide crucial lessons for predicting quakes

Geologists uncover underground ocean

Lusi down and under

Big earthquake could hit Bangladesh, northeast India

Tremendous strain is building up due to plate convergence under Bangladesh, says a new paper. A single big rupture could cause a magnitude 9 quake

‘There will be a day when we will be able to predict quakes’

Enough strain has accumulated in the Nepal region to cause a great earthquake. But how big it is going to be and when it is going to occur is a …

Volcanic rocks in Deccan pinned down to a comet

A model to explain the formation of a vast stretch of volcanic rocks near Bombay may even explain the extinction of dinosaures

7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan

Tremors felt in many places, including Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi-NCR

Is any place safe?

Like dormant volcanos, earthquakes, too, can strike in areas considered seismically inactive.

Mega earthquakes

New fossils found fix the age of mountain basin in Vindhyan

Seismic data is ignoring high-pressure atomic twirls

‘We are skipping a whole glacial cycle’

A study has found that even moderate human emissions of 1,000-1,500 gigatonnes of carbon would postpone the next glacial age by at least 100,000 years

Ancient rocks reveal Earth had life-supporting conditions 4 billion years ago

Study of ancient zircon crystals reveals early interaction of water and land, challenging existing theories of a water-covered Earth

Crust falls apart

2004 megaquake fractured the Indo-Australian plate of Earth

Angioplasty of streams

Politician-scientist duo turns an arid region in Maharashtra lush green

New techniques to forecast earthquakes

Deformations in upper Shivaliks help predict earthquakes

Geologists get new tool to manage multiple data

Giant frog links South America, Madagascar

Underground reservoirs to store carbon

New quake fault lines can't hide beneath forests

In fits ‘n’ starts

An obstinate frog tells the tale of Himalayan rise