Wet regions may behave like drylands: Study blames heatwaves, droughts

Europe, US might see desert-like changes due to current heatwaves, authors suggest

On elephant’s trail

The animal’s movement can help ascertain seasonal boundaries

In transit

Commercial ships provide better tsunami warnings

India develops new device to measure snow surface temperature

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How the world's land and water surface have changed in 30 years

India ranks sixth in conversion of land surface to water 

Jumbo alert

SMS-based alert system can drastically cut human-elephant conflicts

Lest mountain slips

Wireless sensor network to predict landslides

A vicious cycle exposed

Melting uncertainty

Debris cover also affects glacial retreat rate

Drought forces Egyptians into felling trees

Winds not favourable

Turbines can increase local temperatures

Slow death

World’s glaciers are melting fast, but not so in Asia

Threatened mangroves

Drought monitoring: Untapped data

Government does little with records that could help reduce effect of drought on agriculture

A perplexing water cycle

Agricultural areas get no rain, urban areas face water logging  

Glacier through drone's eye

Researchers use new technology to gather data in rugged, inaccessible Himalayan terrain

Bureaucracy on the beach

Odd-and-even 2.0 worked but farm fires and forest fires played spoilsport, says CSE

Takes on motivated and half-baked science

Himalayan destruction

Study quantifies the impact of hydel projects on the ecology of the mountain range

India desertified

Map of India to change soon. Courtesy: climate change

Forest fire atlas to provide information realtime

Online resource reports fire within six hours

Bytes

Aligarh's groundwater at risk

Lost battle

It is no use trying to save the rainforests, warns a new study