deformations in some sedimentary layers of the upper Shivaliks provide information on earth movements and can help predict earthquakes. These deformations occurs when the sedimentary rock is in the

long environmental problems, not a sudden catastrophe, might have led to the Great Dying that ended the Permian era 250 million years ago, says a new study. The event wiped out 90 per cent of marine

india has thin land roots. That's why it moved about five times faster and further away than other landmasses when it broke apart from its mother supercontinent

Indonesia's Anak Krakatoa volcano rumbled early on November 2, emitting red-hot stones and lava. Two other volcanoes in the island nation are also spewing plumes of hot ash and gases. Authorities,

there could be a link between disturbances in the ionosphere and the Earth's magnetic field, and earthquakes. Such disturbances preceded the quake that struck Gujarat on March 7, 2006. A study

The construction of a section of Russia's Sakhalin II oil pipeline project resumed from August 1, 2007, a few days after it was suspended after allegations that its safety link violated the approved

Saturday, July 7. It's day 18 of an indefinite hunger strike by tribespeople of Sikkim's Lepcha community and there's no end in sight. Protests against the imminent influx of a series of dams on

A valley full of rare geysers and thermal vents in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula disappeared on June 3 after an entire mountainside collapsed only to reappear few days later after a drop in the water