Three-fourths of India’s irrigation sources run on electricity: study Subject :Geography Section: Physical Geography Context: The latest edition of the Minor Irrigation Census (MIC) — a compendium of borewells, tubewells, and other privately owned irrigation sources by farmers — finds that electricity is the dominant source of power to extract water, over diesel, […]

    Study finds fish surprisingly resistant to marine heatwaves Subject: Geography Section: Physical geography Context: A new study has found that fish are surprisingly resistant to heatwaves in the ocean. About the study: Researchers in Canada, Europe and the United States collaborated on the study, titled Marine heatwaves are not a dominant driver of […]

    India sees lowest August rainfall in a century; September is likely to be ‘normal’: IMD Subject: Geography Section: Physical geography Context: Rainfall in August had been the least in over a century, with India getting 36% less rain than it usually does in the month. What was the usual trend? Of the four […]