How Do Satellites Know Wells Are Running Dry Before Anyone Notices? ExplainedGroundwater is vital for many communities. Satellites now track underground water loss, revealing declines before wells run dry. This techn...
05 Mar, 2026, 07.22 PM IST
What Drained an Entire Lake Overnight With No Storm or Warning? Scientists Have an AnswerLakes in glacial and karst regions are vanishing and refilling without rain, baffling observers. Scientists explain these phenomena through...
27 Feb, 2026, 02.00 PM IST
Satellites Expose a Hidden Water Loss Beneath the World’s Tallest MountainsVast underground freshwater reserves in the Himalayas and Andes are depleting. Satellites now track these hidden water losses, revealing si...
12 Feb, 2026, 03.58 PM IST
Groundwater Is Vanishing Faster Than Ice and Most of Us Never NoticedGroundwater, vital for drinking and farming, is disappearing globally. This hidden crisis, revealed by satellite data and aquifer studies, ...
10 Feb, 2026, 03.15 PM IST
New Maps Show Why Some Land Slowly Sinks Over TimeThe ground beneath us is sinking, a phenomenon called land subsidence, revealed by advanced satellite mapping. This slow, often invisible m...
10 Feb, 2026, 02.56 PM IST
How Satellites Are Exposing the World’s Most Fragile Groundwater SystemsSatellites are now revealing alarming groundwater depletion across Asia, particularly in regions feeding major rivers like the Ganges and I...
06 Feb, 2026, 08.34 PM IST
Unscientific mining pushing Uttarakhand's Bageshwar toward disasters: Govt panel to NGTA government panel has cautioned that unscientific mining in Uttarakhand's Bageshwar district is destabilizing slopes, endangering villages...
03 Aug, 2025, 12.09 PM IST
ISRO working on mission to advance high-resolution thermal imaging for climate, resource managementThe TRISHNA mission, a collaboration between ISRO and the French space agency CNES, aims to monitor Earth's surface temperature, water stre...
06 Jun, 2024, 12.04 AM IST
Melting glacial, unbearable heat: World is dangerously close to irreversible tipping points, warns UNThe UN has cautioned that the world is dangerously close to six 'tipping points' that could lead to irreversible damage to the planet. Clim...
26 Oct, 2023, 02.42 PM IST
FM Nirmala Sitharaman visits NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MarylandNirmala Sitharaman was given presentations about various activities at NASA Goddard by Dr Makenzie Lystrup, Director of NASA's Goddard Spac...
12 Apr, 2023, 06.46 AM IST
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.
10 Apr, 2019, 04.07 PM IST
India extracts more groundwater than China-US, says studyA total of 163 million people in India have no access to clean water close to home, or 15 per cent of all rural residents and seven per cen...
05 Jun, 2018, 06.41 PM IST
ISRO's satellite data helps India fight battle for waterBhuvan Bhujal, a portal launched two years ago, is providing continuous information to the Centre that has helped identify prospective site...
25 Apr, 2017, 01.00 PM IST
Three ministries to join hands to 'drought-proof' India from October 2The ministries of rural development, agriculture and farmer’s welfare, and water resources will converge their flagship schemes towards wat...
19 Sep, 2016, 07.07 AM IST
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.
01 May, 2016, 11.12 AM IST
Water scarcity: Earth is losing groundwater at an alarming rateOne third of the aquifers - which provide food and water to two billion people, are being depleted at accelerated rates.
27 Jun, 2015, 02.47 PM IST
North India losing groundwater at rate of foot per yr: NasaUsing Nasa satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as 33 cm (one foo...
14 Aug, 2009, 10.28 AM IST