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Hindu Business Line
February 28, 2018
Positive findings highlight the fact that tiger monitoring is being implemented in 87 per cent of the sites and all sites surveyed in South Asian and East Asian countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Russia have management plans. However, several sites in Southeast Asia, includingÃâà...
Business Line
February 9, 2018
Barren Island, located 135 km north-east of Port Blair, is the only active volcano in South Asia. This 3km-wide island has a 2km-wide depression, which had resulted from massive eruptions in the past. The first massive eruption in the volcano took place in 1787. In 1991, it erupted again after remainingÃâà...
The Straits Times
February 9, 2018
"We tend to think of Pacific atolls as static landforms that will simply be inundated as sea levels rise, but there is growing evidence these islands are geologically dynamic and are constantly changing," he said. "The study findings may seem counter-intuitive, given that (the) sea level has been rising in theÃâà...
Phys.Org
February 8, 2018
In new research published this week in the journal Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Cambridge archaeologists present a new algorithm, Multi-Scale Relief Model (MSRM), which is able to extract micro-topographic information at a variety of scales employing micro-, meso- and large-scale digitalÃâà...
Global Times
December 9, 2017
27, 2017 shows the Danxia landform in Fugu County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Geologists in Shaanxi Province have found a new Danxia landform, characterized by reddish sandstone features, thought to be the largest such site in the country. The S-shaped site, which features a rugged redÃâà...
The Straits Times
November 29, 2017
The missile "should be capable of being deployed and launched on rugged landforms and able to resist electronic-warfare attacks. It must be able to carry multiple warheads to hit targets anywhere on the globe", Mr Yang told the broadcaster. "Judging from available information, its overall capability isÃâà...
The Straits Times
November 28, 2017
The missile "should be capable of being deployed and launched on rugged landforms and able to resist electronic-warfare attacks. It must be able to carry multiple warheads to hit targets anywhere on the globe," Yang told the broadcaster. "Judging from available information, its overall capability is similarÃâà...
The Guardian
August 23, 2017
She liked to offer practical advice to the partners of research students as to their expected lot if they became the spouse of a South Asian archaeologist and, within South Asia, she was affectionately known as Auntie. A fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, for five decades, Bridget was awarded the RoyalÃâà...
Global Times
June 14, 2017
Aerial photo taken on May 27, 2017 shows the scenery in Shanglin County of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Rural tourism helped to boost local economy with its karst landform. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)Ãâà...
Global Times
May 12, 2017
Photo taken on May 11, 2017 shows the scenery of Danxia landform at a gorge in Qiaozhen Township of Ganquan County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The Danxia landform refers to landscapes that consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs. (Xinhua/Shao Rui)Ãâà...
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