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National Conference on Promotion of Seaweed Cultivation

For Prelims: Seaweed, Medical Food of the 21st Century, Kelp forests, Red algae, Blue algae, Major Seaweed Beds in India, Commercialised Seaweed...

03 Feb 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

2500-year-old Solution to Fight Climate Change

For Prelims: 2500-year-old Solution to Fight Climate Change, Isotopes and Radiocarbon, Monsoon Rains. For Mains: 2500-year-old Solution to Fight...

03 Feb 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Radioactive Discharges from Indian Nuclear Plants

For Prelims: Minimal Radioactive Discharges from Indian Nuclear Plants, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Nuclear Fission, Implications of...

01 Feb 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Acid Rain

For Prelims: Fossil Fuels, Acid Rain, Air Pollution, flue-gas desulphurisation, Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET). For...

01 Feb 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Wild Life Licensing Rules 2024

For Prelims: Wild Life (Protection) Licensing (Additional Matters for Consideration) Rules, 2024, Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, CITES For Mains:...

24 Jan 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Forest Fires in the Himalayas

For Prelims: Himalayan Region, Forest Survey of India (FSI), Precipitation. For Mains: Forest Fires in the Himalayas, Government Policies and...

20 Jan 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Towards Decarbonising Transport 2023

For Prelims: NITI Aayog, EU, G20, Decarbonizing transport, carbon dioxide (CO2) , Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, Nationally, Determined...

18 Jan 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

IUCN Assessment of the Himalayan Wolf

For Prelims: Himalayan Wolf, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List, Ladakh and Spiti Valley, Sustainable...

16 Jan 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Green Hydrogen: Enabling Measures Roadmap for Adoption in India

For Prelims: Net Zero by 2070, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), Gray Hydrogen, Fossil Fuels, National Green Hydrogen...

16 Jan 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Project Tiger

For Prelims: Project Tiger, Tiger Reserves, Pug-mark method, Tiger Census, Camera-trap method, The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, National Parks,...

13 Jan 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Varied Progress in Clean Air Target

For Prelims: Varied Progress in Clean Air Target, National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP), Meteorology, Central Pollution...

11 Jan 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

EU's Carbon Border Tax Impact

This editorial is based on “Understanding the EU’s carbon border tax” which was published in The Hindu on 09/01/2024. It talks...

09 Jan 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Biodiversity Credits

For Prelims: Biodiversity Credits, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), 15th Conference of Parties (CoP15), Biodiversity Credit...

05 Jan 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Balancing Climate Goals and Biodiversity Protection

For Prelims: Balancing Climate Goals and Biodiversity Protection, Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Strategies, Paris Agreement, Climate Change. For...

01 Jan 2024 Biodiversity & Environment

Illegal Sand Mining

For Prelims: Sand mining, Mines and Mineral Development and Regulation Act, 1957, Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act,...

26 Dec 2023 Biodiversity & Environment

India's Maiden Winter Arctic Research

For Prelims: National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Climate Change, Space Weather,...

23 Dec 2023 Biodiversity & Environment

Greenwashing

For Prelims: Greenwashing, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) , Carbon credit For Mains: Greenwashing & Its Challenges, Effect of...

20 Dec 2023 Biodiversity & Environment

Climate Change Performance Index 2024

For Prelims: Climate Change Performance Index 2024, Greenhouse gas emissions, Renewable Energy, G20, National Action Plan on Climate Change,...

20 Dec 2023 Biodiversity & Environment

International Energy Agency’s Coal 2023 Report

For Prelims: International Energy Agency, Coal, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Renewable Energy For Mains: Factors...

20 Dec 2023 Biodiversity & Environment

Annual Arctic Report Card: NOAA

For Prelims: Annual Arctic Report Card, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Arctic, Permafrost, Global Warming,...

18 Dec 2023 Biodiversity & Environment