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5 ways to reduce your carbon footprint(link)

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

The environment has become a buzzword these days. As a result of increased awareness a rising number of people from  have become more interested in doing something for the green cause and helping the environment in a range of different … Continue reading →

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Earth Scientists Say to Jupiter’s Moon Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the whole Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes, some erupting lava fountains up to 250 miles high. But, concentrations of volcanic activity are significantly displaced from where they are expected … Continue reading →

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Dead Star Bending Light of Companion Red Star

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has observed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion red star.The findings are among the first detections of this effect — a result predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity — … Continue reading →

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New Hope for Real Time Forest Monitoring System

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

Now Global Forest Watch 2.0 (GFW 2.0) is a powerful near real-time forest monitoring system  that combines satellite technology, new algorithms, cloud computing, mobile phone technologies, maps and human networks around the world to fight illegal logging and deforestation. GFW … Continue reading →

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Satellite Mapping of Buildings to Augment Land Records in Delhi,India

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

 Delhi Development Authority (DDA) of capital of India has embarked on a project to prepare digital maps of all its land.The land of  DDA is spread over an area of more than 70,000 acres . Delhi has changed drastically in … Continue reading →

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Belarus is Capable of Making Better Remote Sensing Satellites

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. According to the scientists the country  is capable of creating a … Continue reading →

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Extreme Climate change in Pakistan

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

Pakistan could be in for a sharp rise in average temperatures and extremely erratic weather.It was opined in a seminar.The seminar, analysed data in a new report produced by top non-government organisations, LEAD-Pakistan and the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, … Continue reading →

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Extraterrestrial lakes

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

At present the surface of the planet Mars is too cold and has too little atmospheric pressure to permit the pooling of liquid water on the surface. Geologic evidence appears to confirm, however, that ancient lakes once formed on the … Continue reading →

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