Kuril Islands: On April 22, Japan’s Diplomatic Bluebook for 2022 described the Kuril Islands (which Japan calls the Northern Territories and Russia as the South Kurils) as being under Russia’s “illegal occupation”. This is the first time in about two decades that Japan has used this phrase to describe the dispute over the Kuril Islands. […]
Category: Geography Current Affairs
What Is Seafloor Spreading?
What Is Seafloor Spreading? According to a study that analyzed data from the last 19 million years, Seafloor spreading rates have slowed down by roughly 35% globally. For this study, researchers selected 18 of the world’s largest spreading ridges (mid-ocean ridges). A ridge or a mountain ridge is a geographical feature consisting of a chain […]
Blue Straggler Stars
Blue Straggler Stars: Scientists at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, have found support for one way to understand peculiarity about Blue Straggler Star. The researchers made use of the observations by the UVIT instrument (Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) of Astrosat, India’s first science observatory in space. Earlier in September 2021, in the first-ever comprehensive analysis of […]
Falklands Dispute
Falklands Dispute: “The Commission for Dialogue” with the United Kingdom on the Falkland Islands was recently inaugurated by India and Argentina. The commission seeks to settle the territorial dispute over the Islas Malvinas that are known as the Falkland Islands in the UK. The British, in 1765, were the first to settle West Falkland, but […]
Arunachal Pradesh – Assam Border Dispute
Arunachal Pradesh – Assam Border Dispute: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma have decided to form district-level committees for settling their inter-state boundary disputes. Recently, the Union government gave the seal of approval to an agreement to partially resolve the disputed sectors on the Assam-Meghalaya border. Assam has […]
Meteor Showers In Indian Skies
Meteor Showers In Indian Skies: Lyric Meteor showers peaked in Indian skies on April 22nd and will continuously pass through till April 29 at nearly 10-15 meteors every hour. Lyrids are debris of Comet Thatcher, which is currently traveling at a distance of 1,60,00,00,000 kilometers from the planet. Currently traveling away from the Sun, Comet […]
Western Disturbances
Western Disturbances: Variations in the intensity and locations of the Western Disturbances have brought heavy rainfall to Delhi during some months and kept the city dry and in the grip of a heat wave at other times. Western disturbances are storms that originate in the Caspian or Mediterranean Sea, and bring non-monsoonal rainfall to northwest […]
Europa
Europa: Researchers have said that there might be an abundance of water pockets beneath formations called double ridges on Jupiter’s moons Europa. Europa’s surface is mostly solid water ice. Double ridges are the formations which are most common on Europa’s surface and are similar to those seen on Earth’s Greenland ice sheet. Europa is slightly […]
Pre-Eruption Warning Signals At Volcanoes
Pre-Eruption Warning Signals At Volcanoes: New research detected pre-eruption warning signals at Whakaari White Island and other active volcanoes, majorly from New Zealand. Every volcano behaves differently, some have crater lakes while others are “dry”, they have diverse magmas and rise to different elevations. Despite these differences volcanoes such as Whakaari, Ruapehu and Tongariro in […]
Aurora Glow Observed Above Iceland
Aurora Glow Observed Above Iceland: Stunning aurora glow was recently observed above Iceland after a ‘dead’ sunspot erupted. An Aurora is a display of light in the sky predominantly seen in the high latitude regions (Arctic and Antarctic). It is also known as a Polar light. There are two types- the aurora borealis and aurora […]
