Time to put away the begging bowls

Icy quakes

A continental jigsaw

A new study sheds more light on how Argentina came into its present form

Spinning faster

Quake quest

Flowing study

The truth about an ocean

An end to forecasting

Japan's earthquake-prediction programme may soon be closed down

Breaking a myth

Weather watch

Heated within

Catastrophic change

Tilting Earth

Day and night aren’t equal length on an equinox — here’s why

The lengths of the day and night aren’t quite the same, and there are two reasons for this

Is your footprint green enough?

There is an urgent need for people to focus on sustainable use of resources so that they are available in the long-term, for future generations

Down To Earth relaunches its website on a contemporary and engaging platform

We are delighted to welcome you to our new website. This website is the exciting next step in our successful journey of 23 years

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

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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 …