Environment

Arctic Ice March 2011 Update #2 The melt season of 2010 ended with a low extent and with little ice older than two years. There are strong indications that the winter of 2010 - 2011 did not compact…

When I was student at University of Rajasthan and lived in Gokhle hostel room number 6 in 1965 there was strong debate on nuclear reactors, nuclear energy, nuclear power, nuclear non proliferation…

Reading The Cryosphere A picture is worth a thousand words - but only if you can speak the language. When examining satellite images of the cryosphere it helps to know something of the mechanisms…

Coastal areas and inland water bodies , salt marshes have their own flora and fauna. High tides and low tides have their role to play. During monsoon season rain water allows the growth of certain…

Happy holi is celebrated across India . In the evening of purnima holika (made from wood logs ) symbolizing evil is burnt and prahlad (made of green twig) is taken out from the burning Holika just…

Sea beaches and their vegetation have disappeared as most of beaches are encroached upon for hotels industry, housing , and industries in India . Mangroves and sunder bans have also being lost to the…

40 percent of world’s population lives in coastal areas. Coastal areas have different characteristics where saline water from sea, its winds carrying salt, salt marshes, inland sea water vegetation…

Vegetation line along rail road or connecting roads was such a common site that sometime trees would even obstruct the passage, in my childhood. They widened the roads and cut the trees . Jaipur -…

This is a butterfish: NOAA describes it unflatteringly as a "small, bony foodfish." Butterfish live along the Atlantic coast of North America from Florida to Newfoundland, and they've been fished…

Floods in a country,or several countries, rapid Tsunamis around the world (taking place at a faster rate), temperatures rising - do they not provide enough proof that climate change is taking…