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Last Updated: August 2022 For Prelims: Eco Sensitive Zones, Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986, National Wildlife Action Plan, National Park,...
30 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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Lancet Report on Climate Change and Human Health
Lancet’s Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change 2018 report has recommended that Indian government must take a series of...
29 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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Andaman & Nicobar Islands’ Rich Faunal Diversity
A recent publication by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) titled Faunal Diversity of Biogeographic Zones: Islands of India, has for the first time...
26 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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Atmospheric Geoengineering Experiment to Curb Global Warming
The research by scientists at Harvard and Yale universities, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, proposed using a technique...
24 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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Greenhouse Gas Levels Reach Record Highs: UN Report
Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the United Nations weather agency,...
24 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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UN Environment Award for India
Nine institutions and individuals from across Asia have been recognized by the United Nations, USAID, Interpol, and the Freeland Foundation for...
23 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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World’s First Online Climate Summit
World leaders are set to participate in an innovative climate change summit that will take place entirely online which makes it a carbon neutral...
22 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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Breathe: An Action Plan for Combating Air Pollution
Introduction NITI Aayog has developed 15 Action Points to combat air pollution across a range of industries and sectors. It calls for concerted...
21 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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21 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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BASIC Nations Push for ‘Climate Finance’
Ahead of the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, the BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, China and India) countries said that...
21 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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IMO Guidelines on Shipping Fuel
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted an amendment that supports a reduced limit on sulphur in ships' fuel oil. The IMO adopted...
21 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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Invasive Plant Species Introduced by Kerala Floods
Floods and landslides in Kerala have brought several alien invasive species of plants into the State’s water bodies, posing a threat to native...
21 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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Heat Is An Invisible Climate Risk
(The editorial is based on the article “Heat is an invisible climate risk” which appears in Livemint for 19th November 2018. It...
19 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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In a first, eight captive-reared critically endangered white-backed vultures will be released with tracking devices. The Vultures were bred in the...
12 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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Bannerghatta Park’s Eco-Sensitive Zone Reduced
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) had issued a new draft notification for Bannerghatta National Park (BNP), nearly 2.5 years after the...
10 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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The Central Zoo Authority has opposed the move to shift a tigress captured from Odisha’s Satkosia Tiger Reserve to Nandankanan Zoological...
09 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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A UN study ‘Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018’, has shown that the ozone layer is recovering at a rate of 1-3% per...
06 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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(This editorial is based on the article “Wrong Doctor, Wrong Medicine” which appears in The Hindu on 4th November 2018. It analyses the...
05 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has come out with Net Zero Energy Buildings rating system in collaboration with the World Green Building...
03 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
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Electrocution of elephants is turning out to be a critical area in the management of India’s elephant population as 461 elephants got...
02 Nov 2018 Biodiversity & Environment
