Uttarakhand faces a growing climate crisis, with flash floods and landslides claiming hundreds of lives in the past decade. Scientific stud...

The 64th CGPB meeting in Bhubaneswar, chaired by VL Kantha Rao, gathered key stakeholders from the exploration, research, and mining sector...

More than 110 landslides and floods occurred from 24 June to 14 July. The devastation is largely due to the unchecked building of cement an...

The Uttarakhand government has issued orders for payment of Rs 1,00,000 as an advance for rehabilitation, and Rs 50,000 as displacement all...

The NDMA panel was formed after a glacier crack in the Tapovan-Raini area of Chamoli in Uttrakhand, more than a year ago, killed at least 8...

According to the researchers, the findings suggest a much greater extent of the high arsenic zones and total population exposed than alread...

GTK and GSI will help each other through an exchange programme in the sphere of training and capacity building.

Dr Sandip Som, the deputy director general of GSI, also said that foreshocks -- mild tremor preceding earthquakes -- or swarm activities --...

The preservation of archaeological sites and the management of flooding hazards and the sustainability of water supplies would also be unde...

These colour coded maps which have tehsil level details and convey the location in five different zones of earthquake intensity were releas...

The recommendation also assumes significance in light of the large-scale casualty witnessed in the Nepal quake, with close to 8,000 people ...

The last time Bengaluru suffered an earthquake was on January 29, 2001, whose magnitude was 4.3 on the Richter scale.

As the world grapples with climate change and methods to tackle natural and man-induced disasters, the role of science should be to provide...

The GSI will now take over the work of seismic hazard risk mapping work at micro-level from Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) for 30 m...

Geological Survey of India & University of Kashmir have decided to join hands to promote advanced research in various fields of Geosciences...

Meghalaya will implement the new mines and mineral Policy by next year. The new policy has made room for joint venture in coal explorations...

Be it housing or building a factory on the shore, tighter coastal norms could be on the way.