Hot Spotting

Geophysicists work out a new way to find the Earth's hidden heat sources

Precious metals unearthed

Old as the mountains

Fungi create fertile soils

It wasn't the asteroid

Silent Trigger

Solar heating of the atmosphere causes landslides

River of long ago

Sinking and with a trace!

Full of treasure

Changing perceptions

Experts say changes in the Earth's orbit may have led to the formation of the Sahara desert

Bacteria in glaciers

The lost world

A continent rose thrice above the Indian Ocean, only to disappear beneath the waves each time

The turmoil beneath

How landslides of the 1998 kind in Garhwal can be prevented

Warm without carbon dioxide

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

It pours red in Kerala

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

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