NASA has renamed the Mission to Planet Earth enterprise the Earth Science enterprise. The Earth Science enterprise is one of the four strategic enterprises of the Agency, responsible for a long term,

The mystery that has been shrouding the genesis of the reservoir-induced earthquakes in Koyna region in Maharashtra is likely to be unravelled soon. An assurance to this effect has come from Dr.

A five day Chapman conference (American Geophysical Union) on stable continental region earthquakes will be held on the premises of National Geophysical research institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad from

An international seminar on "Cretaceous Geology System,"is being organised by the ONGC at Chennai from January 6-8. Cretaceous systems are rock formations 65 million to 135 million years old. These

The Deccan shield regions, hitherto considered "stable" ones, are showing signs of having become "active" in respect of severe reservoir-induced (SRI) and stable continental region (SCR) earthquakes

Two scientists now claim that a better under-standing of the Earth's baroque climate system requires a better understanding of the interaction between the shape of our evolving planet and the

A breakthrough in earthquake prediction through mathematical statistics, an advanced branch of stochastic and processes, has now come very close to predicting earthquakes and seaquakes, thanks to the

The macroseismic and aftershock studies of last year's Jabalpur earthquake have revealed a "deep-rooted seismogenic fault" located within the Narmada south fault zone, according to J R Katyal,

Scientists have found that the earth's atmosphere has shrunk by eight kilo metre in the last 40 years, possibly as a fall out of accumulation of green house gases. Researchers of the British

For the first time in history, NASA is releasing dramatic images documenting the Earth's changing biology, both on land and in the oceans, as observed from space for one continuous year. The changing