Deep-sea mining may be necessary for a greener futureDeep-sea mining for cobalt and nickel could speed up renewable energy adoption. Discoveries in the Clarion-Clipperton zone revealed unique ...
31 Jul, 2024, 09.49 AM IST
Human spaceflight tests, deep ocean exploration: 2024 packed year for Indian scienceAfter a successful moon landing, India gears up for ambitious space endeavors in 2024, including human spaceflight and lunar sample return ...
30 Dec, 2023, 12.24 PM IST
Kiren Rijiju flags off India's maiden winter science expedition to ArcticA team of four scientists will embark on the journey on Tuesday to India's research station in the NyAlesund town on the Brogger peninsula ...
18 Dec, 2023, 09.37 PM IST
Scientists scramble to harvest ice cores as glaciers melt13 Sep, 2021, 04.22 PM IST
Paused by COVID-19,India's Arctic expedition to resume in June"Last year, the expedition was cancelled because of COVID-19 outbreak. This year, we are resuming the expedition. It will be held from June...
04 Jan, 2021, 05.19 PM IST
America detects first case of new COVID-19 variant as Biden offers gloomy vaccine outlookBiden's prediction of a grim winter appeared aimed at lowering public expectations that the pandemic will be over soon after he takes offic...
30 Dec, 2020, 08.09 AM IST
Virus delay, early ice melt challenge Arctic science missionFor a while, the international mission looked like it might have to be called off, as country after country went into lockdown because of t...
10 May, 2020, 12.48 PM IST
56-year-old first Isro woman to spend over a year in AntarcticaStaying in the world’s coldest place where minimum temperatures can slide to -90 degrees Celsius, Mangala Mani was part of a 23-member expe...
18 Mar, 2018, 10.41 AM IST
Delhi-NCR to have common Air Quality Index by OctoberCPCB and the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) put out separate air quality indexes while the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) shar...
03 Sep, 2017, 11.47 AM IST
Panel, suggesting changes in green laws, submits its reportIt recommended many changes in existing laws to ensure speedy clearances and make the whole process more transparent.
19 Nov, 2014, 01.10 PM IST
Panel, suggesting changes in green laws, submits its reportThe high-level committee, set up in August to review green laws and suggest amendments to bring them in sync with the Modi government's dev...
19 Nov, 2014, 08.55 AM IST
- Mountain of trash may be driving Himalayas to disaster
Experts say that continuous storage of huge quantities of water has turned lakes on high mountains into potential "water bombs" for the pop...
07 Sep, 2014, 07.04 AM IST
US names mountain after an Indian-American scientistThe mountain was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) and the US Geological Survey.
01 Jul, 2014, 11.54 AM IST
- Scientists unlock Earth's 2,000-year-old climate history
An international contingent of polar scientists has successfully drilled a 2,000-year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica to unlock the...
08 May, 2014, 08.32 PM IST
Indian innovations: Converting new ideas into successful businessesFrom a jacket that controls temperature to a rural branchless banking system, here is a sample of innovations likely to change lives.
27 Mar, 2011, 12.09 AM IST
- Light pollution in cities blots out fainter stars
The reason behind the lack of visibility of faint stars, say astronomers, is light pollution - a phenomenon that is created because of inef...
11 Aug, 2008, 06.25 AM IST
- House panel asks PM to defer EIA legislation
A parliamentary panel has asked Manmohan Singh to defer legislating on the new EIA notification, alleging it undermined the federal charact...
05 Sep, 2006, 02.45 AM IST