Twelve years later, impact of Tsunami still makes waves

Down To Earth revists the causes of the massive earthquake that triggered tsunami 12 years ago and the progress scientists have made towards …

Southern Chile hit by 7.6-magnitude earthquake; infrastructural damage reported

Though there were at least dozens of weaker aftershocks, damage was restricted to the highway that runs across Chiloe Island

‘Faults inactive for long period could pose greater hazard’

Chan Lung-sang, professor at Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, speaks to Kundan Pandey about the probability of a bigger …

Hotbeds of energy

Simmering rocks found several kilometres beneath the earth's surface hold the potential to meet our power needs

Building against odds

Despite a host of reasons against its constuction, Pakistan decides to go ahead with building the Diamer dam

‘Missing element’ in earth's core identified; scientists say it is silicon

The third element at the Earth's core has baffled scientists until now

The Anthropocene is a nuclear epoch – so how can we survive it?

This year saw nuclear weapons tested, stockpiles renewed, and disasters remembered

Hot Spotting

Geophysicists work out a new way to find the Earth's hidden heat sources

Precious metals unearthed

Old as the mountains

Fungi create fertile soils

It wasn't the asteroid

Silent Trigger

Solar heating of the atmosphere causes landslides

Semantics of Anthropocene: Have humans really formed a new era

The Earth will hardly notice when we humans are gone, just as it hardly knew we were here

Mountain of faith: Mysuru’s famous Chamundi Hill is crumbling

Four major landslides have been reported on Mysuru’s Chamundi Hill since 2019, alarming greens and government alike

Seismic activity has gone through the roof in last two months

Since December 2, 2016, there have been around 420 earthquakes of magnitude over 5 along all major continental plate boundaries

A year after the quake we look at the physical changes

While the earthquake pushed some of the country’s areas higher in elevation, Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world, has decreased in …

River of long ago

Sinking and with a trace!

Full of treasure

Changing perceptions

Experts say changes in the Earth's orbit may have led to the formation of the Sahara desert

Bacteria in glaciers

The lost world

A continent rose thrice above the Indian Ocean, only to disappear beneath the waves each time

The turmoil beneath

How landslides of the 1998 kind in Garhwal can be prevented

Warm without carbon dioxide

CO 2 had nothing to do with the Miocene era global warming