News articles tagged with 'Indian'
Research suggests strong Indian crust thrust beneath the Tibetan Plateau
— 9 Apr 2011 11:34 | Geology and palaeontologyFor many years, most scientists studying Tibet have thought that a very hot and very weak lower and middle crust underlies its plateau, flowing like a fluid. Now, a team of researchers…
The biggest crash on Earth
— 17 Sep 2010 10:00 | Geology and palaeontologyDuring the collision of India with the Eurasian continent, the Indian plate is pushed about 500 kilometres under Tibet, reaching a depth of 250 kilometres. The result of this largest…
Sea levels rising in parts of Indian Ocean, according to new study
— 14 Jul 2010 11:40 | EnvironmentNewly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, appear to be at least partly…
Deep subduction of the Indian continental crust beneath Asia
— 29 May 2010 13:48 | Geology and palaeontologyGeological investigations in the Himalayas have revealed evidence that when India and Asia collided some 90 million years ago, the continental crust of the Indian tectonic plate was…
British Indian children have better mental health
— 11 May 2010 20:47 | HealthBritish Indian children have substantially better mental health than British Whites, new research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine shows…
Mangroves save lives in storms, study of 1999 super cyclone finds
— 15 Apr 2009 02:32 | EnvironmentA new study of storm-related deaths from a super cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India in 1999 finds that villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests experienced…
Racialised communication met with silence in the classroom
— 20 Nov 2008 19:30 | HealthA new article in the journal Communication, Culture and Critique illustrates the ways some college students bear the costs of silence-mediated racialised communication in their everyday…
Climate change signal detected in the Indian Ocean
— 30 May 2007 15:24 | EnvironmentThe signature of climate change over the past 40 years has been identified in temperatures of the Indian Ocean near Australia. From ocean measurements and by analysing climate simulations…
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