Going, going, gone! The Chorabari glacier in the
Himalayas is retreating at an
alarming speed. First will come
the floods and then the drought as more of the river feeding glaciers shed weight, too fast.
Lurking tales Lakes have turned saline and perished. Some others lost their source of
replenishment. The geo-archaeological studies of three lakes shows the
impact of climate and humans
on them.
When everything else fails, blame the Sun? The notion that
global warming is caused by solar
activity rather than any human activity has been disproved by
data that shows otherwise.
A quantum process in photosynthesis Antenna systems that
convert a photon to
energy and pass it onto a chlorophyll molecule
exhibit what is similar to
quantum coupling,
says S Ananthanaryanan.
With the Left parties rejecting any compromise on the nuclear deal with the United States, should the UPA government dump the deal and move ahead? Deccan Herald invited its readers to express their views on the subject. Many readers were of the opinion that the UPA government should ignore the Left’s objections and go ahead with the deal. However, some others held that the Left’s concerns were justified and opposed the deal.