Category: Environment Current Affairs

Saunders’s Tern: Saunders’s Tern was sighted at Adyar Estuary in Chennai. Saunders’s Tern is a species of bird in the family Laridae. Saunders’s terns (Sternula saundersi) are a small, ground-nesting marine bird species. It is sparsely resident along the shores of the north-western Indian Ocean. It breeds in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf to […]

Red Fort : Pollution A ‘black crust’ is forming on the walls of the Red Fort due to high levels of air pollution, a recent study has found. The Red Fort, or Lal Qila, is a Mughal fort located in Delhi, India. Formerly known as Quila-e-Mubarak, or the Blessed Fort, the Red Fort lies along […]

Red Coral Kukri Snake: A rare Red Coral Kukri Snake species, last reported in 1936, was recently found trapped in a net in a village field near Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. Red Coral Kukri Snake is identified as Oligodon kheriensis. It is one of the rarest non venomous snake species. This nocturnal and fossorial snake is […]

Garra nambashiensis: New Species Of Fresh Water Fish Researchers recently discovered a new species of freshwater fish, Garra nambashiensis, in Manipur. Garra nambashiensis is a new species of freshwater fish which belongs to the Labeonine family. It was discovered in Taretlok, a tributary of the Chindwin River, near Nambashi Valley in Manipur’s Kamjong district. It […]

Indigenous Solar Value Chain: The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is formulating a plan to create a fully indigenous solar manufacturing ecosystem by 2028, encompassing modules, cells, wafers, and ingots. The solar manufacturing value chain encompasses the complete process of converting raw materials into a fully functional solar photovoltaic (PV) module. It is a […]

India’s Green Finance Plan: India is turning to Contracts for Difference (CfD) as a central mechanism to mobilize nearly USD 1 trillion in green finance for its 500 GW renewable energy target by 2030. CfD is a financial agreement between renewable energy producers and the government to stabilize revenues. If market prices fall below an […]

Global Plastic Pollution Crisis: Global plastic pollution is reaching alarming levels, with waste projected to triple by 2060 to 1.2 billion tonnes, posing a grave ecological threat.Global plastic production doubled between 2000–2019, touching 460 MT; this growth is driven by packaging and fast consumption.Only 9% of plastic is recycled, leading to massive leakage into landfills, […]

India’s First Bamboo-Based Ethanol Plant in Assam: Prime Minister of India inaugurated India’s first bamboo-based ethanol plant at Numaligarh Refinery, Golaghat, Assam, and laid the foundation stone of a polypropylene plant. India’s First Bamboo-Based Ethanol Plant in Assam is a bioethanol plant that converts bamboo biomass into 2G ethanol, a renewable alternative to fossil fuels. […]

Grey Rhino Event: Kerala’s Wayanad landslide (July 2024) has been described as a “grey rhino event” by scientists in the report Sliding Earth, Scattered Lives (Sept 2025), highlighting how policymakers ignored years of warnings about ecological fragility and rainfall risks. A “grey rhino” is a highly probable, high-impact event that is visible and foreseeable but […]