Numerous power projects vulnerable to disaster: NGOs
Shimla, Feb 9 (UNI) In the aftermath of Uttarakhand flood of Feb 7, a number of civil rights groups and environmental NGOs are posing hard questions to the state authorities over its relentless settings of new power project alleging that most of them are prone to natural disasters.
13 organisations in the state said in a collective statement issued today that many operational, as well as planned hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh, are located in areas highly vulnerable to disasters such as landslides and floods,
“Most of the projects that are to come up in Himachal are planned in the greater and trans-Himalayan regions which are ecologically fragile and vulnerable to climatic changes. These projects are proposed in the upper Sutlej valley in Kinnaur and Spiti and the Chandrabhaga or Chenab basin in Lahaul, where tribal communities are resisting them tooth and nail. These are also geologically unstable terrains prone to ea
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Vast Belts Around Earth Accelerate Particles Close to Light Speed, And Now We Know How
7 FEBRUARY 2021
When you look up at the sky, the region of space around Earth may look as clear as a song, but there s a heck of a lot going on out there that we can t see. In recent years, probes studying radiation trapped by Earth s magnetic field have found something peculiar – electrons zipping along at close to light speed.
That alone isn t the peculiar part; near-light-speed, or relativistic, electrons are well known in the cosmos, boosted by cosmic particle accelerators. The peculiar thing was that occasionally extra fast,