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Category: Nature Geoscience

Posted on January 11, 2017January 11, 2017

IIT Gandhinagar: Changing rainfall pattern results in groundwater deficit in north India

The groundwater level in north India declined at a rate of 2 cm per year during the period 2002-2013, while in north-central and south India it increased by 1-2 cm…

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Posted on August 29, 2016September 15, 2016

60 percent of Indo-Gangetic groundwater too contaminated to use

The water table has either been stable or rising between 2000 and 2012 across 70 per cent of the aquifer in the Indo-Gangetic Basin that is spread over more than…

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Posted on January 13, 2016July 20, 2016

Comet impact leads to building blocks of life

A crash of a comet (icy body) on rocky surfaces or rocky body on icy surface may be all that is required for seeding planets or satellites with amino acids…

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Posted on January 12, 2016

Editorial: Watery Mars

Published in The Hindu on February 4, 2013 Mars might have been cold and dry with a transient presence of water at the surface some four billion years ago —…

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Posted on January 7, 2016

Editorial: Signs of earliest life

Published in The Hindu on September 12, 2011 The latest fossil finds of microscopic life about 3.4 billion years ago in sedimentary rocks in Western Australia suggests that life began…

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Posted on January 7, 2016January 7, 2016

Earthquake: unpredictability is its middle name

Published in The Hindu on March 24, 2011 How safe are nuclear plants located in countries that have faults cutting across them or located close to tectonically active regions? How…

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Posted on December 11, 2015December 11, 2015

Why the 7.8 magnitude Nepal quake was less devastating

Published in The Hindu on August 8, 2015 Despite the April 25, 2015 Nepal earthquake being 7.8 magnitude, shallow focus, most of the vulnerable, regular, four-storey buildings escaped damage while…

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