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- November 16th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: rakhshanda's blog
- November 15th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Chandrayan Mission:Indian Tricolour Placed on the Moon
In a historic event, the Indian space programme achieved a unique feat on November 14, 2008 with the placing of Indian tricolour on the Moon’s surface on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday. The In…
- November 14th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE On Resource Development and Environmental Change: Emerging Issues and Challenges
Department of Geography,Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,India is organising an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE On Resource Development and Environmental Change: Emerging Issues and Challenges on 27th to 2…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE On Resource Development and Environmental Change: Emerging Issues and Challenges
Department of Geography,Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,India is organising an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE On Resource Development and Environmental Change: Emerging Issues and Challenges on 27th to 2…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE On Resource Development and Environmental Change: Emerging Issues and Challenges
Department of Geography,Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,India is organising an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE On Resource Development and Environmental Change: Emerging Issues and Challenges on 27th to 2…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: rakhshanda's blog
International Conference on Resource Development and Environmental Change
Department of Geography,Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,India isorganising an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE On Resource Development andEnvironmental Change: Emerging Issues and Challenges on 27th to 29t…
- November 12th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: rakhshanda's blog
Microsoft launches Live Search Maps for India
Microsoft India on Monday launched Live Search Maps for India that offers users access to detailed listings and street maps for 9 Cities, business listings across 29 Cities and access to highway netwo…
- November 11th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Microsoft launches Live Search Maps for India
Microsoft India on Monday launched Live Search Maps for India that offers users access to detailed listings and street maps for 9 Cities, business listings across 29 Cities and access to highway netwo…
- November 10th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
India’s Desi Google Earth on cards
India will soon have a desi version of Google Earth — the popular satellite-mapping tool that allows you to zoom in on any spot on the planet by using just a PC.ISRO chief G. Madhavan Nair announced…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
India’s Desi Google Earth on cards
India will soon have a desi version of Google Earth — the popular satellite-mapping tool that allows you to zoom in on any spot on the planet by using just a PC.ISRO chief G. Madhavan Nair announced…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
India’s Desi Google Earth on cards
India will soon have a desi version of Google Earth — the popular satellite-mapping tool that allows you to zoom in on any spot on the planet by using just a PC. ISRO chief G. Madhavan Nair announce…
- November 7th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
A Rock in Oman Can Help Slow Global Warming
A rock found mostly in Oman can be harnessed to soak up the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at a rate that could help slow global warming, scientists say. When carbon dioxide comes in contact with…
- November 6th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
Chandrayaan-1: first images
It was another proud moment for the country. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was shown the first pictures that were taken by Chandrayaan-1 through the Terrain Mapping Camera on Friday.The TMC was operat…
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Chandrayaan-1: first images
It was another proud moment for the country. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was shown the first pictures that were taken by Chandrayaan-1 through the Terrain Mapping Camera on Friday.The TMC was operat…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Floodplain
Floodplains are landscapes shaped by running water. As streams and their larger forms, rivers, flow across the surface of land, they transport eroded rock and other material. (Erosion is the gradual w…
- November 4th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
Chandrayaan-1 enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory
The fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully carried out today (November 4, 2008) morning at 04:56 am IST. During this manoeuvre, the spacecraft’s 440 New…
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Chandrayaan-1 enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory
The fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully carried out today (November 4, 2008) morning at 04:56 am IST. During this manoeuvre, the spacecraft’s 440 New…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Chandrayaan-1 enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory
The fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully carried out today (November 4, 2008) morning at 04:56 am IST. During this manoeuvre, the spacecraft’s 440 New…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: rakhshanda's blog
- November 3rd, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
India, Russia giving final shape to Chandrayaan-2
With Chandrayaan-1 well on its way to moon without any glitch, Indian Space Research Organisation has now initiated a dialogue with its Russian counterpart of worksharing of Chandrayaan-2 which featur…
- November 2nd, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: rakhshanda's blog
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Antarctica Warms
New research shows that both Antarctica and the Arctic are getting less icy – and the best explanation is mankind’s emissions of greenhouse gases. But will that convert anyone who doubts that glob…
- October 30th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Mesa and butte
Junction Butte in Canyon-lands National Park, Utah. Part of the Colorado Plateau, the landscape of sedimentary sandstone in this area was eroded into countless canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colora…
- October 28th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
Rising CO2 accelerates coral bleaching: study
Rising carbon dioxide levels in the world's oceans due to climate change, combined with rising sea temperatures, could accelerate coral bleaching, destroying some reefs before 2050, says a new Austral…
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Rising CO2 accelerates coral bleaching: study
Rising carbon dioxide levels in the world's oceans due to climate change, combined with rising sea temperatures, could accelerate coral bleaching, destroying some reefs before 2050, says a new Austral…
- October 26th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Layers of Earth’s Atmosphere
The temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere varies with altitude; the mathematical relationship between temperature and altitude varies among five different atmospheric layers (ordered highest to…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
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WPZoom to his friends list. - October 24th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: rakhshanda's blog
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Greenhouse gas 4 times higher than thought
Levels of a powerful greenhouse gas are four times as high as previously thought, according to new measurements released on Thursday. New analytical techniques show that about 5,400 metric tons of nit…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Canyons
Canyons exist below the rim of the land, below the horizon. These ragged scars on the face of the planet descend hundreds to thousands of feet below their surrounding landscape, giving it depth. Their…
- October 22nd, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: rakhshanda's blog
India on the moon: Chandrayaan-1 Launch successful
Chandrayaan-1, India’s maiden moon spacecraft, was put into Transfer Orbit around the earth by the Polar Launch Vehicle PSLV-C11 after it blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.The 1,380 kg…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
India on the moon: Chandrayaan-1 successful
Chandrayaan-1, India’s maiden moon spacecraft, was put into Transfer Orbit around the earth by the Polar Launch Vehicle PSLV-C11 after it blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.The 1,380 kg…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
India on the moon: Chandrayaan-1 successful
Chandrayaan-1, India’s maiden moon spacecraft, was put into Transfer Orbit around the earth by the Polar Launch Vehicle PSLV-C11 after it blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.The 1,380 kg…
- October 21st, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
India on the moon: Chandrayaan-1 successful
Chandrayaan-1, India’s maiden moon spacecraft, was put into Transfer Orbit around the earth by the Polar Launch Vehicle PSLV-C11 after it blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The 1,3…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
Japan launches voluntary CO2 market
Japan on Tuesday launched a voluntary carbon market based on companies' pledged emissions cuts and hopes thousands of firms will sign up to what could become a forerunner of a mandatory cap-and-trade…
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Japan launches voluntary CO2 market
Japan on Tuesday launched a voluntary carbon market based on companies' pledged emissions cuts and hopes thousands of firms will sign up to what could become a forerunner of a mandatory cap-and-trade…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Indonesia’s tin islands: blessed or cursed?
Tin mining on these sleepy islands off Sumatra has brought wealth, but at a price; it is literally eating away at the land. The scale of the environmental damage on the Bangka-Belitung islands can be…
- October 20th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Climate Change Behind Increased Tiger Attacks in India
The number of tiger attacks on people is growing in India’s Sundarban islands as habitat loss and dwindling prey caused by climate change drives them to prowl into villages for food, experts sai…
- October 18th, 2008
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog
Delta
Deltas have long played an important role in human history. These fertile areas where rivers flow into large bodies of water have served as fishing, farming, and living sites. Of the great deltas arou…
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rashidfaridi has posted a new entry on: Rashid's Blog on Environment
Beluga whales in Alaska listed as endangered
The depleted population of beluga whales that swim off the coast of Alaska’s largest city was listed as endangered on Friday by the federal government.Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-pr…
