Monthly Archives: August 2010

Mauritania plants trees to hold back desert

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Mauritania has launched a tree-planting program aimed at protecting its capital from the advancing desert and coastal erosion, a project that could eventually extend thousands of kilometers across Africa. According to the government the aim of this green belt is … Continue reading →

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Churning of Earth’s molten interior behind sea level changes

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

An Australian expert has said that the churning of the Earth’s molten interior may have played a vital role in sea level change over the past two to 20 million years. Geophysicist Dietmar Muller from University of Sydney said that … Continue reading →

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Chilika Lake

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Chilika is a shallow, brackish-water, lake on the eastern coast of Orissa. This lake which is the largest in the subcontinent, is roughly pear shaped and varies in its extent in the dry and wet seasons between about 560 and … Continue reading →

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Astronomers Use Galactic Magnifying Lens to Probe Elusive Dark Energy

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

An international team of astronomers using gravitational lensing observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken an important step forward in the quest to solve the riddle of dark energy, a phenomenon which mysteriously appears to power the Universe’s … Continue reading →