Make India a ‘weather-ready’ nation

A proposal has been sent to the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, detailing the areas of concern in India’s weather forecasting system and …

'We must be ready to face big earthquakes in prone areas'

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) conducted mega mock drills in prone areas to assess our preparedness in the event of large …

Crust of the matter

Deep dwellers

Life-forms have been found even inside the Earth's crust, a region previously thought to be barren

The slower, the safer

Geologists in the US have discovered that earthquakes can also occur slowly causing minimal damage

Earth's spinning innards

A recent finding about the earth's core could hold a clue to the forces that shape the planet

Steaming stones

Hitting rock-bottom

Certain rocks, discovered literally in the pits of the earth, could substantially change the prevailing tectonic theory

A quaky future

Creepy forebodings

Pole track

To quake or not to quake

Earthquakes occurring below oceans have been the subject of intense speculation of seismologists across the globe. Theories of the past have …

Hot spot motion

Deadly impact

A series of comet collisions with the Earth may have led to the extinction of many species

Earthy ups and downs

New images of the earth's interior show that slabs of surface rock sink to the bottom of the core

Early birds

Rocks -- 3.85 billion year old --show that battered by meteors and supposedly sterile, ancient Earth still harboured life-forms

Faking history

Most fossils, repositories of early life on Earth, may not be fossils at all. Existing evolutionary theories stand to lose ground

Of ups and downs

Shifts in the Earth's rotational axis caused changes in sea level

Icy quakes

A continental jigsaw

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

Balancing boulders

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

Spinning faster

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'…