India News From IndoDaily.Com

June 15, 2016

Scientists use underwater robots to study India's monsoon
New Delhi (AFP) June 14, 2016
Scientists from Britain and India will release underwater robots into the Bay of Bengal in a bid to more accurately predict the Indian monsoon critical to millions of farmers, they said Tuesday. Researchers will also fly a plane packed with scientific equipment over the bay to measure the atmosphere as part of the multi-million pound study of the monsoon which hit southern India last week. Better forecasting would improve the livelihoods of India's more than 200 million farmers and agricultural ... read more

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