Ever thought why the Government thought of landing its fighter aircrafts on Yamuna Expressway. These are Advanced Landing Grounds (ALG). Advance landing Grounds (ALG) are makeshift runways where aircraft of yesteryear could land in emergency or for a temporary period. Under the overall plan to progressively boost both military force-levels and infrastructure to address the […]
Floods are normally perceived as a hazard; rather floods are a natural event which present a phase of the hydrological cycle. Floods can exist even when the hydrological cycle is destabilised. Floods are a constructive environmental process, but they can be destructive if either they are perceived so or they if behaviour of hydrological cycle […]
Sand mining in India has been both legal and illegal, economically paying and ecologically degrading; a major source of sand for construction and equally devastating source of riverbed degradation. Sand mining has been one of the culprits of Uttarakhand floods, the floods that were unprecedented in their impact and intensity. Impacts of sand mining can […]
Volcanic eruptions affect aviation and flying in many ways. On a global scale, it affects trans-continental flights. Several intercontinental airliners have run into trouble by unwittingly flying into volcanic ash clouds, whereupon their engines have stalled. The biggest disruption to air travel in recent history was the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull in 2010. which shut […]
A nation is a collection of people occupying a particular portion of the earth’s surface, a territory they perceive as their homeland by right and who have a strong sense of unity based on similar historical experiences and a set of shared values, beliefs and attitudes that impart a high level of cultural and linguistic […]
India’s Maritime challenges are associated with the security and Governance of Indian Ocean, the threats to the littoral countries and the problems of Indian Navy. India’s densely crowded littorals have a higher density of human habitation than the global trend. Governance and Security Good Governance and social economic development nurtures a vital stake of India’s […]
With an energy starved population the significance of non-conventional energy resources has gone up. The priority of the energy and power sector is to harness renewable energy resources to meet the increasing power demand. The government is thus planning to roll out a ‘green energy corridor’ project to facilitate the flow of renewable energy into […]
YES. ECONOMIC GROWTH INEVITABLY LEADS TO ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, BUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DOESN’T. Economic growth is a steady process by which the productive capacity of the economy is increased over time to bring about rising levels of national income. Economic growth is a unidimensional phenomenon which includes high rates of growth of per capita output and […]
Shale Gas is a form of natural gas that is trapped within shale (a fine grained sedimentary rock) formations, shale gas is known for more than a century. It was not seen as a viable alternative to petroleum fuels because shale drilling (which is done horizontally) is more expensive than conventional oil drilling. Shale was […]
Introduction The El Nino and La Nina are atmospheric oceanic phenomenon driven by atmospheric circulation and is better called as El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The Southern Oscillation was discovered by Gilbert Walker over seventy years ago. It is an oscillatory pattern of weather between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean extending from Africa and […]