1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (532+ words) The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is one of Earth's most important ocean circulation systems. Often described as a giant ocean "conveyor belt," it moves warm surface water from the tropics northward into the Atlantic Ocean and sends colder, denser…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (294+ words) The Centre is tightening its approach to highway construction in India's hill states, with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari indicating a policy shift that prioritises slope stabilisation before road building begins in mountainous terrain. Multi-agency push, global tech adoption The ministry…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (254+ words) At BT Davos 2026, Prashant Ruia, Chief Executive of Essar Group, delivers a grounded perspective on the global energy transition, challenging the belief that fossil fuels can be rapidly replaced by green alternatives. In conversation with Siddharth Zarabi, Group Editor, Business…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (348+ words) In a startling revelation, uranium has been detected in breast milk across Bihar's Gangetic plains. The study, published in Scientific Reports, reveals shocking contamination that puts infants' health at risk. Experts warn of long-term developmental consequences. Uranium, a colorless but…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (276+ words) Beneath our feet, slabs of Earth's crust are quietly vanishing. Known as subduction, this geological sleight of hand sees crust sink into the mantle and disappear'like Earth eating itself alive. Despite museum displays and textbook images, the mantle isn't a…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (268+ words) For over 150 years, geologists puzzled over entire layers of Earth's crust that seemed to disappear. Now, they've finally uncovered where the planet buried its billion-year secret. The culprit? Snowball Earth. Around 700 million years ago, glaciers scraped off 23 miles of rock…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (196+ words) Karnataka has secured its place among the top three states in India for wind power capacity, strengthening its role as a key contributor to the country's renewable energy targets. The state ranked third nationally in overall wind capacity, the Karnataka…...

8+ mon, 4+ day ago  (167+ words) Every 26 seconds, Earth emits a faint, rhythmic vibration'inaudible to us, but persistent and global. First detected in 2005, this tiny pulse repeats with clockwork precision, baffling scientists to this day. Experts say the pulse rides on ambient seismic noise'energy from waves,…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (251+ words) India isn't cracking open'but 100 km underground, its tectonic plate is secretly peeling apart, forming a vertical rift deep beneath the Himalayas that could redefine earthquake science. A chunk of India's plate is sinking into the mantle, like tectonic skin shedding…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (264+ words) Deep beneath our feet, solid rock is flowing like syrup. A new study reveals that Earth's mantle isn't rigid'it moves, reshaping how we understand tectonics, quakes, and planetary heat. The D" layer, 1, 700 miles down, has puzzled geologists for decades. Now,…...