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Climate Change Performance Index
Why in News India ranked 10th in Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2021. India, for the second time in a row, continued to remain in the...
10 Dec 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Narmada Landscape Restoration Project
Why in News National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Forest Management...
08 Dec 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in News Recently, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Odisha government to prepare an action plan for 14 identified elephant...
08 Dec 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Deteriorating Great Barrier Reef
Why in News Recently, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has highlighted that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in a...
05 Dec 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in News Recently, the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), in a first-of-its-kind study, has projected that numbers of the Malayan Giant Squirrel...
04 Dec 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Provisional Report on the State of the Global Climate 2020: WMO
Why in News According to the latest State of the Global Climate provisional report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the year 2020 is...
04 Dec 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in News According to a recent study commissioned by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the rate of increase in pollution levels in...
27 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in News The Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR - Uttar Pradesh) has bagged international award TX2 for doubling the number of tigers in the past four...
27 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in News Recently, Maharashtra announced the setting up of a desalination plant in Mumbai. The plant will process 200 million litres of water...
25 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in News Recently, Karnataka has announced that it would declassify 6.64 lakh hectares (nearly 67%) of the 9.94 lakh hectares of deemed forests...
19 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Anakkayam Small Hydro Electric Project
Why in News Recently, various green collectives and environmental organisations have come together to protest against the Anakkayam Small Hydro...
18 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in News Recently, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) launched a Vulture Action Plan 2020-25 for the conservation...
17 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in News Recently, the Meteor lake at Lonar in Buldhana district of Maharashtra and the Soor Sarovar at Agra have been declared Ramsar sites, a...
16 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in News Recently, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has included the Panna Biosphere Reserve (PBR)...
11 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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High Biodiversity in Ganga River
Why in News Recently, the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in its survey of the Ganga river (the main river without its tributaries), has found...
10 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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This article is based on “Biodiversity governance” which was published in The Down to Earth on 06/11/2020. It talks about the issues...
09 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Petition for Declaring ESA Unconstitutional
Why in News Recently, a Kerala-based NGO for farmers has moved the Supreme Court (SC) to declare the draft notification on the Western Ghats...
09 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in News Recently six blue or hyacinth macaws and two capuchin monkeys were released in the Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden in...
09 Nov 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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This article is based on “Time for a ‘sponge cities’ mission in India” which was published in The Hindu on 31/10/2020. It...
31 Oct 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
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Shivalik Elephant Reserve: Uttarakhand
Why in News The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has asked the Uttarakhand government to consider avoiding sensitive...
31 Oct 2020 Biodiversity & Environment
