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Mindless on the Maoists

Modi promises "development" to end the Maoist violence but slashes funds for essential jobs and food programmes

Usha Ramachandra – Professor and Energy Area Chairperson, Administrative Staff College

Usha Ramachandra, Professor and Area Chairperson of Energy Area, ASCI, is Doctorate in Economics from Central University, Hyderabad. She joined …

Vignettes from our natural world

www.environmentalgraffitti.com

The physical Net

Book>> Tubes, A Journey to the Center of the Internet • by Andrew Blum • Penguin • Rs 499

Balancing boulders

Earthquake- free regions may be pinpointed by studying the number of delicately poised rocks that dot them

United we stand

Various theories have attempted to explain the origin and positioning of the earth' continents. A new hypothesis now suggests that there, perhaps,…

Not more, not less

Oxygen is the component that sustains life on earth. Too much or too little of it could change the entire life scenario on the planet. How does …

Sparkling clues

Diamonds not only have glamour value; research reveals that they have helped solve a long-standing puzzle on recycling capabilities of the earth'…

Killed by a belch

Carbon dioxide, the killer gas in today's world seems to have been the culprit aeons ago too. It has been identified as the gas which possibly …

Sparkles galore

Shimmering diamonds are not just earthly in origin. They can also be interstellar and meteoritic. From the depths of the earth to the expanses of …

Terror unearthed?

California is sitting on gases at very high pressure that are enough to trigger earthquakes in near future

Met department moves from weather forecasting to nowcasting

Information on severe weather conditions will be made available three to six hours beforehand

The great Indian monsoon and its friends

A look at the association between the southwest monsoon and its companions

The child gives oceans a fever

The El Nino of 1997 affected sea surface temperatures over the Indian Ocean

150 years of global temperature data now on Google Earth

Database uses information from 6,000 stations and is expected to make climate-change data more accessible and transparent

How long will life on Earth survive?

Scientists say events like volcanic activity, an expanding sun, asteroids or a freezing core may bring about destruction

DTE Coverage: Earth Day 2024

Our planet is in turmoil; Down To Earth reported on some major difficulties facing it

Should Planning Commission be closed down?

Demand for reforming and reinventing the commission is gaining momentum

Access to drinking water, sanitation in Africa

Underestimated threat

Plague hot spots in Latin America

Global inventory of bird flu strains

Unintended victims

Simply Put: Taking Earth for a ride