Orbital eccentricity

Changes in nature of Earth’s orbit tend to drive glacial cycles  

During wind and rain

When the wind velocity is constant, expect rains and storms

Saving the Ozone

Starring [LTOR] Brian Gardiner Jonathan Shanklin and Joseph Farman

Get swayed

23 years of data shows wind speeds have increased

Size matters

Bigger aerosols trigger rain

Blowing in the wind

Answers to why dust storms  are on the rise in East Asia  

Eco-thriller

Film>> Ozone Killers directed by Heinz Greuling and Thomas Weidenbach

The weather mart

Met department is not the only one predicting weather in India. Forecasts are now sold by businesses to businesses

Aeroswitch

Smoking trees

Simply unpredictable

Despite using satellites and supercomputers, meteorologists are still baffled by the monsoon, unable to say precisely when it will occur and how …

Sun screened

Pollution joins clouds, blocks sunlight over India

The disturbing Ozone alert

Tracking the phase out of ozone depleting substances

Monsoon earlyburly

‘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  

Monsoon dates to be revised

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

No lesser evil

Ozone

Monsoon maps on trees

Growth rings allow for future prediction of drought  

Nature's forecasters

Pollution pangs

High ground-level ozone increases appendicitis risk

Science & Technology - Briefs

Inbuilt storage

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

'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 …