Crop Burning: Punjab and Haryana’s killer fields

Punjab produces about 19-20 million tonnes of paddy straw and about 85-90 per cent of this paddy straw is burnt in the field

Now, satellite data can better manage our natural resources

A joint partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization and Google has made this possible

Wet regions may behave like drylands: Study blames heatwaves, droughts

Europe, US might see desert-like changes due to current heatwaves, authors suggest

On elephant’s trail

The animal’s movement can help ascertain seasonal boundaries

In transit

Commercial ships provide better tsunami warnings

Extreme wildfire events will intensify; Australia and US most at risk

Overall increase in extreme wildfires is linked to climate change as global temperatures continue to rise in areas that were already prone to fires

How the world's land and water surface have changed in 30 years

India ranks sixth in conversion of land surface to water 

Jumbo alert

SMS-based alert system can drastically cut human-elephant conflicts

Lest mountain slips

Wireless sensor network to predict landslides

Sikkim High Court issues notice to state government on landslide dam

Chief Justice serves notices to the Sikkim government on action taken as fears of flash floods from a landslide dam engulf the state

Melting uncertainty

Debris cover also affects glacial retreat rate

Chennai floods: Panel report highlights encroachments, faulty drainage system  

The committee asked Tamil Nadu government to check real estate mafia involved in illegal construction and usurping of water bodies

Stalled monsoon to make little progress before June 25

In spite of unfavourable conditions, IMD expects a major progress of the monsoon in Central India

A look at paddy crop residue burning updates

NASA images show how smoke emanating from paddy residue burning is contributing to air pollution

Winds not favourable

Turbines can increase local temperatures

Slow death

World’s glaciers are melting fast, but not so in Asia

Threatened mangroves

California drought: valleys sinking faster than ‘ever before’

Increased subsidence in fifth consecutive year of drought can damage surface and underground infrastructure 

On road to recovery

Nepal has banned new constructions till it formulates a fresh building code. Emerging threat of landslides compounds its troubles

Forests feel the heat

Photosynthetic rate of forests in high elevation areas across the world has been falling since 1990s

Floods in Uttarakhand explained

The National Remote Sensing Centre under ISRO has released some interesting satellite images that could possibly explain the devastation in …

MoEF spells out parameters for identifying inviolate forest areas

Mining would be barred in such pristine forests; 178 forest types graded on a scale of 0 to 100

Drought monitoring: Untapped data

Government does little with records that could help reduce effect of drought on agriculture

Day 3 of Indian Science Congress: technologies to curb Ganga river pollution revealed

The tanning industry is not only controlling pollutants, but it is also saving 20 per cent of the operational cost

Land subsidence is serious

India depends heavily on groundwater. But overextraction can cause the land to sink. A recent study found that signs of land subsidence are …