How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and drones be effectively used along with GIS and RS techniques in locational and areal planning?

Give a geographical explanation of the distribution of off-shore oil reserves of the world. How are they different from the on-shore occurrences of oil reserves?

How are climate change and the sea level rise affecting the very existence of many island nations? Discuss with examples.

What is a twister? Why are the majority of twisters observed in areas around the Gulf of Mexico?

What are aurora australis and aurora borealis? How are these triggered?

Why is the world today confronted with a crisis of availability of and access to freshwater resources?

Discuss the consequences of climate change on the food security in tropical countries.

Discuss the causes of depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining coastal ecology.

What are the consequences of the spreading of ‘Dead Zones’ on the marine ecosystem?

Why is India taking a keen interest in the Arctic region?

Petroleum refineries are not necessarily located nearer to crude oil producing areas, particularly in many of the developing countries. Explain its implications.

Mention the advantages of the cultivation of pulses because of which the year 2016 was declared as the International Year of Pulses by the United Nations.

“In spite of adverse environmental impact, coal mining is still inevitable for development”. Discuss

Present an account of the Indus Water Treaty and examine its ecological, economic and political implications in the context of changing bilateral relations.

The effective management of land and water resources will drastically reduce the human miseries. Explain.

What is the economic significance of the discovery of oil in the Arctic Sea and its possible environmental consequences?

How does India see its place in the economic space of rising natural resource-rich Africa?

Account for the change in the spatial pattern of the Iron and Steel industry in the world.

Tropical cyclones are largely confined to the South China Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Mexico. Why?

Explain the formation of thousands of islands in the Indonesian and Philippines archipelagos.

Bring out the causes for the formation of heat islands in the urban habitat of the world