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Deep beneath Utah’s Great Salt Lake, scientists discovered a giant freshwater system no one expectedScientists have discovered a vast underground freshwater lake extending kilometers beneath the hypersaline Great Salt Lake. This surprising...
America’s Hidden Karst Landscapes: Why the Ground Can Open Without WarningBeneath forests, farms, and neighborhoods, water slowly dissolves rock, forming hidden underground channels and caves in karst landscapes. ...
What Happens When We Stop Crossing Mountains and Start Going Through ThemMountains once defined human limits, but 19th-century tunnels began a shift. Modern base tunnels, like the Gotthard, ignore mountain shapes...
Earth’s North Pole is shifting faster than expected, and here's why it could disrupt Holiday travelEarth’s North Pole movement impact on travel: Holiday travel could face disruptions as Earth's magnetic North Pole is rapidly shifting, mov...
There is a ready fix for Bengaluru's big problem, but many oppose itJust a while ago, Bengaluru was reeling under severe water scarcity. It has become some sort of a recurrent problem for the city. According...
Guessing a hazard: India's more or less ready for storms, but what about landslides and flash floods?While India was more or less prepared for the multiple heat waves and five cyclones that made landfall during the pandemic, mainly due to b...
IIT Kharagpur's AI study finds 20 per cent of India has toxic levels of arsenic in groundwaterAccording to the researchers, the findings suggest a much greater extent of the high arsenic zones and total population exposed than alread...
Spike in uranium in agri borewells around Andhra's Kadapa basinUnearthing of this alarming finding comes a year after an atomic minerals agency observed dangerously high levels of uranium concentration ...
Usable groundwater rapidly depleting in north, east India: IIT StudyThe estimate shows rapid depletion of UGWS in Assam, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and West Bengal.
Large Himalayan born river flowed through Rann of Kutch: GovernmentAmong other, the panel has recommended the government to establish a data bank for compiling scientific information on palaeochannels.
Would mindlessly building toilets lead to an environmental harakiri?Over four lakh individual household toilets have been constructed in urban India since SBM was launched.
Water haves and have-nots will lead to social tension: Jay FamigliettiWhen it comes to drought, India is not alone. The world's underground water reserves are depleting at an alarming rate.
Flood alert: 'Yamuna floodplains drastically narrowed'The signs are already there. In recent monsoon seasons, many areas in southeast Delhi have seen basements of buildings getting submerged un...
- Has Coca-Cola met a watery grave?
Coke's Plachimada unit has been accused of polluting surrounding water bodies with lead and cadmium.