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Why in News Recently, the Swarm constellation of satellites of the European Space Agency (ESA) has updated the development of South Atlantic Anomaly...
27 May 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News Recently, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted the “heatwave to severe heatwave conditions” over...
26 May 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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New List of Names of Tropical Cyclones
Why in News The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has released a list with the names of 169 tropical cyclones that are likely to emerge over the...
30 Apr 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Ozone Layer Hole Over Arctic Closed
Why in News Recently, the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) announced that a hole in the Arctic ozone layer,...
28 Apr 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Year End Review: Ministry of Earth Sciences
Important Facts Various Cyclone Storms According to IMD’s Statement on Climate of India, 2019 was exceptional for the number of cyclones...
24 Apr 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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India to Receive Normal Monsoon: IMD
Why in News Recently, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has observed that India will likely have a normal monsoon, with a chance of above...
16 Apr 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Grounding of Aircraft Affects Weather Forecasting
Why in News Beginning mid-March, India began restricting incoming international flights into the country and by March 24 had imposed a total...
06 Apr 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Effects of Changing Groundwater Levels on Himalayas
Why in News Recently, researchers from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG) have found that the Himalayan range subsides and moves up...
14 Mar 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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National Conference on Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience
Why in News Recently, the first ‘National Conference on Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CDRR&R) – 2020’ was...
26 Feb 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise -2020
Why in News The 2nd Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Disaster Management Exercise was...
15 Feb 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Rising CO2 Levels may Double Floods
Why in News The report “Impacts of Carbon Dioxide Emissions on Global Intense Hydro-meteorological Disasters” has established a link...
24 Jan 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the year 2019 was the second-hottest year since records began in 1880. It...
17 Jan 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Statement on Climate of India during 2019: IMD
Why in News The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has released the ‘Statement on Climate of India during 2019’. Key...
08 Jan 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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North-East Monsoon Ends with 30% Surplus Rain
Why in News India witnessed a 30% surplus in total rainfall during the Northeast monsoon in 2019. October to December is recognised as the period...
03 Jan 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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One-fifth of the Country’s Forests Prone to Fire
Why in News Recently, the 2019 report by Forest Survey of India (FSI) was released. It states that about 21.40% of forest cover in India is prone to...
01 Jan 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News On 26th December 2019, India experienced an Annular Solar eclipse of 0.97 magnitude, with 3 minutes and 39 seconds’ maximum...
27 Dec 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News The Philippines was hit by typhoon Phanfone on 25th December 2019. Typhoon Phanfone is known as Ursula in the local language in the...
26 Dec 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News Cheruvathur in Kasaragod district, Kerala is one of the three places in the world where the solar eclipse will be most clearly seen on...
20 Nov 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert in Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha over Cyclone Bulbul in...
08 Nov 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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A depression that developed in the Comorin Sea (near the southernmost end of India) has intensified into a cyclonic storm, named...
31 Oct 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
