The Silkyara tunnel is part of the Union governments ambitious Char Dham Mahamarg Pariyojana. It is a highway widening project for almost 900 km in Uttarakhand to provide all-weather connectivity to the Hindu pilgrimage sites of Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath. In August 2019, the Supreme Court set up a high-powered committee to examine the “cumulative and independent” impact of the project “on the entire Himalayan valleys”.
Officials with the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District and Wyoming-based Aqua Geo Frameworks are performing an electromagnetic survey that will provide officials critical information about the aquifers and underground geology of the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Designated Ground Water Basin that spans 354 miles of east-central El Paso County.
While conducting an aerial survey of northern Guatemala, researchers detected a sprawling Maya site. Geologists in northern Guatemala have discovered a massive Maya site that stretches approximately 650 square miles (1,700 square kilometers) and.