Mars.

Yesterday.

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सांगा!
Please reply on this post, tag your friends, post your photos and videos to remind everyone why #VetalTekdi and all other tekdis are critical to #Pune 's present and future!

Bmcc and Fergusson College campus have been recently resurfaced, but not a recharge well in sight. Such structures badly needed to compensate for loss of recharge zones due to construction (especially BMCC) at the base of hills.

#pune

Do read this. Biologist Anisha Iyer on the costs of unthinking wildlife 'rescues'. As we see with a clutch of forest departments, claims of rescue can easily be used to advance other ends. Do read. thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/…

#cartography and #STEM meet - love this! #geology what rock layer did they tunnel through? Why?

Telecom companies are laying 50,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cable per year.

Scientists are finally piggybacking critical ocean sensors on the cables. scim.ag/6xO

Humans extract and transport more sand per year than rivers.

pic - sandrp.in/2024/04/06/why…

Humans extract and transport more sand per year than rivers.

Map of wildlife corridors in India. Image source NTCA.
Corridors enable populations to sustain themselves better by way of allowing for larger scope for the breeding, feeding and migration of sub-populations across landscapes. ✒️Divya Kilikar
Read more: india.mongabay.com/2024/04/explai…

I love this simplified map separating the Tertiary System from Old Himalaya Rocks.

A lot more details are available now on the geology of Himachal Himalaya.

Download a high res version here -

gsapubs.figshare.com/ndownloader/fi…

Terrible article. Not one sentence clarifying that petitioner had not sought ban on power lines but for them to be placed underground.

Super bloom of desert gold (Geraea canescens) at Lake Hill, Panamint Valley, Death Valley National Park

Biden: ‘Israel Has An Obligation Not To Harm My Reelection Chances’ bit.ly/49js4oR

On this day, in 1905, a 7.8 Mw #earthquake in Kangra valley, killed 20000 people. There were two centres of great violence, one near Kangra & Dharmsala, where the tenth degree of the Rossi-Forel scale was surpassed, the other in Dehradun, where the ninth degree was not reached.

Defies common sense. Just mind boggling stupidity.

Great description of rock type influence on coffee taste 👇

Landslides were trigered on the northeastern coast of Taiwan during the M7.4 earthquake....👀

Pisolites from a bauxite/laterite profile. They develop during intense chemical weathering of Fe, Al rich rocks.

My recent post on pisolites from the Western Ghats, India, and the story they tell about landscape evolution.

suvratk.blogspot.com/2023/09/iron-p…

U.S. Warns A Gaza Ceasefire Would Only Benefit Humanity bit.ly/49vcQNG

Pisolites from a bauxite/laterite profile. They develop during intense chemical weathering of Fe, Al rich rocks.

My recent post on pisolites from the Western Ghats, India, and the story they tell about landscape evolution.

suvratk.blogspot.com/2023/09/iron-p…