Washington: The likelihood of an area experiencing a potentially devastating landslide could be influenced by its previous exposure to earthquakes many decades earlier.

Washington: The electric eel may be one of the most remarkable predators in the entire animal kingdom.

New Delhi: A Depression has formed over southeast Arabian Sea. At 0830 hrs IST, the 28th October, it lay centered about 1200 km southwest of Mumbai and about 1320 km southeast of Salalah (Oman).  

Mathura / Vrindavan: River activists and Yamuna bhakts have demanded that the union government should set up an empowered Commission to promote and restore the health of the River Yamuna through a River Basin Management Plan and approach the initiative of river conservation with a more integrated approach at a national level.

Utah: In the 250-million-year evolutionary history of turtles, scientists have seen nothing like the pig nose of a new species of extinct turtle discovered in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by a team from the Natural History Museum of Utah.

Montreal: The very act of tolerating some forms of soil pollution may give trees an advantage in the natural world, says University of Montreal plant biologists. Their findings were published recently in BMC Plant Biology.

Washington: A researcher from the University of Southampton has produced a scientific study of the climate scenario featured in the disaster movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’.

Irvine: In a study published recently in the journal Nature Climate Change, scientists from three universities show that products made in China are associated with significantly higher carbon dioxide emissions than the same products made elsewhere.

Washington: From melting glaciers to increasing wildfires, the consequences of climate change and strategies to mitigate such consequences are often a hotly debated topic. A new study led by the University of Utah adds to the ever-growing list of negative impacts climate change can have on humans—low birth weight.

New Delhi: A depression over the north-east and adjoining east-central Arabian Sea has moved slightly eastwards and is lay centered about 280 km south-west of Porbandar at 0530 hrs IST on Tuesday. (Read in Hindi: पूर्वी-मध्‍य अरब महासागर के ऊपर कम दबाव का क्षेत्र, तूफान की आशंका)