Why do jets leave a white trail in the sky? Subject : Geography Section : Climatology Jets leave white trails, or contrails, in their wakes for the same reason you can sometimes see your breath. The hot, humid exhaust from jet engines mixes with the atmosphere, which at high altitude is of much […]
‘Freak incident’: ONGC- ISOR downplay geothermal fluid discharge into Ladakh’s Puga nullah Subject : Geography Section: Physical Geography Context: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Energy Centre (OECT) and the Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR), that have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for developing a geothermal plant in Puga, Ladakh, have termed a recent […]
Context: increasing landslides in Himalayas
Zombie ice from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches Subject: Geography Section: Physical geography Context: A new study finds that Greenland has more than 120 trillion tons of ice that can be thought of as zombie ice that’s going to raise sea level globally by at least 10 inches Zombie ice It’s […]
La Nina Subject :Geography Section: Climatology Context: The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has declared a fresh La Nina alert in the tropical Pacific, which means there is a 70 per cent chance (about triple the normal likelihood) of another La Niña forming later this year. This is even as an existing long-drawn La […]
Memorial for quake victims in China’s Sichuan inspires Veer Balak Smarak and Smriti Van in Kutch Subject : Geography Section: Geomorphology On the morning of January 26, 2001, schoolchildren from 18 government primary schools of Anjar town in Kutch district were marching with tricolours to celebrate the 52nd Republic Day when buildings came […]
‘The worst in 500 years’: Europe’s great drought, explained Subject :Geography Section: Physical Geography European media has been full of dramatic pictures of drying, exposed riverbeds. Some of Europe’s biggest rivers — Rhine, Po, Loire, Danube — which are usually formidable waterways, are unable to support even mid-sized boats. After the record-breaking summer […]