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Rare 4.5-million-year-old freshwater fish fossils found in Dehradun’s Shivalik foothills, a region previously known only for land animalsPaleontologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the Shivalik foothills near Dehradun — the first-ever aquatic life fossils in a reg...- Uttarakhand's 'Lake of Skeletons,' Roopkand in peril as climate change smothers its sizeRoopkund Lake in Uttarakhand is shrinking because of climate change. Known for its skeletal remains, the lake is losing size and depth each...
- Summer of discontent: Climate change is crippling tourism in the Himalayan beltWhile increased tourism and infrastructural development is critical, it should not be at the expense of the environment. Recent events in 2...
- Ministry of power and DRDO sign MoU for developing mitigation measuresMinistry of Power signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defence today...
- Decreasing gap between knowledge and society can make India world leader in S&T: Raghavan"Human interventions into science and technology have deep-rooted impacts, and the current need is to become a more learning-based self-sus...
- No threat from new lake near Rishiganga: GeologistsA team of scientists from DRDO and Dehradun-based Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology will be submitting their preliminary report regardin...
- Another lake formed upstream, poses danger: ExpertsGeologists of the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garwal University (HNBGU) who are conducting a survey of the Rishiganga area - from where the fla...
- Collapse of rock mass weakened due to freezing may have caused U'khand flash floods: ScientistsKalachand Sain, Director of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), said the glaciers where the incident occurred feed the Rishi G...
- Government overlooks glacier studies, claim expertsIn 2017, scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) had filed a detailed report on floods in the Himalayas, including th...
- NCS conducting geophysical and geological surveys to study earthquakes in Delhi-NCR: MoESDelhi experienced four small earthquakes during April - August 2020, with the first event of magnitude 3.5 on April 12 in the northeastern ...
- Wadia Institute comes up with study on impact of climate change on MonsoonWadia Institute of Himalayan Geology has come up with a study on impact of climate change on the Indian summer monsoon in last 10,000 years...
- Plastic waste may trigger water bombs in HimalayasUnfortunately, this is the ugly truth of the Himalayas. The heap, which includes biodegradable plastic, can be found just four kilometres f...
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