Authors: Hina Pande, Poonam Seth Tiwari, Shefali Agrawal India’s cultural heritage is among the oldest and most diverse in the world. It includes both tangible and intangible assets passed down through generations. Built heritage forms a vital part of this legacy. Unfortunately, many monuments in India and across the globe have suffered significant damage from natural and human-induced factors. Conventional Continue Reading »

Rock glaciers in cold-arid part of northwestern Himalaya appear to be more directly and extensively a part of human settlement and land use than glaciers and have a greater and more immediate impact on livelihood. In the cold semi-arid part of Himalaya, most of the civilization has developed in the peri and paraglacial environment and thus permafrost and rock glaciers Continue Reading »

Authors- Ashutosh Bhardwaj, Hari Shankar Srivastava and Raghavendra Pratap Singh Spaceborne LiDAR datasets are contributing immensely for the topographic, ice mass-balance and vegetation related studies. It provides a global view of changes occurring in elevation over Earth. CartoDEM Version 3 Release 1 openly accessible datasets are currently the most reliable datasets for the relatively plain regions in India. The study Continue Reading »

Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime produced when massive objects accelerate, especially during some of the most energetic events in the universe. But what does it truly mean for spacetime itself to “ripple”? How can something so abstract produce measurable physical effects? The concept originates from Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity (1916), which describes gravity not as a Continue Reading »