P. Sunderarajan

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The India Meteorological Department is set to introduce an additional feature to its forecasts during monsoon.

Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, said here on Tuesday that from this year, farmers would also get forecasts of active and break phases of monsoon 10-15 days in advance.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Inter-planetary exploration, global warming, the predicted boom in the Indian aerospace sector and the relentless search for dark energy were some of the topics that dominated the Space Summit organised on the second day of the 97th Indian Science Congress here on Monday.

P. Venugopal

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the problem of climate change now turning into an increasing reality, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is working on the development of a model that can forecast the subtleties of the phenomenon with a fair degree of accuracy into the next five or 10 years, according to Secretary to the Ministry of Earth Sciences Shailesh Naik.

Pune Refusing to put the blame on the officers of India Meteorology Department (IMD) for the wide deviation in the prediction of rains, Minister of State for Earth Sciences Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said it would be inappropriate to pull up someone for weather prediction.

N. GOPAL RAJ

Soot absorbs 80 per cent of the solar radiation it receives; directly warms the atmosphere

SHORT LIFE: While CO2 stays in the atmosphere for centuries, soot stays aloft only for days to weeks; ozone persists for just weeks to months. - PHOTO: AFP

Mumbai The evening nip in the air was interrupted by a slight moisture incursion on Thursday as the temperature in the city rose by a degree to 19