Middle East Green Initiative Summit 2022: Union Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change attended the Middle East Green Initiative Summit 2022 at COP 27 Egypt The Middle East Green Initiative aims to reduce carbon emissions from regional hydrocarbon production by more than 60%. It also plans to plant 50 billion trees across the […]
Category: Environment Current Affairs
New Species Of Endemic Honeybee
New Species Of Endemic Honeybee: A new species of endemic honeybee has been discovered in the Western Ghats. The finding has been published in the September issue of Entomon, a peer-reviewed journal brought out by the Association for Advancement of Entomology. The new species has been named Apis karinjodian and given the common name Indian […]
Snow Leopard Population Assessment Of India (SPAI)
Snow Leopard Population Assessment Of India (SPAI): The first-ever recording of the snow leopard from the Baltal-Zojila region has renewed the hope for the elusive predator in the higher altitudes of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Snow leopard surveys have often focused in neighbouring areas of Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The survey was expanded […]
First Edition Of The Tokhü Emong Bird Count : Nagaland
First Edition Of The Tokhü Emong Bird Count : Nagaland Nagaland is hosting the first edition of the Tokhü Emong Bird Count (TEBC) between November 4 to 7, a four-day documentation event to list birds in the state. It is the first avian documentation exercise taken by Nagaland to go beyond Amur falcons. The event […]
Bringing Back The ‘Odd-Even’ Vehicle Rationing Scheme : Delhi Govt
Bringing Back The ‘Odd-Even’ Vehicle Rationing Scheme : Delhi Govt After implementing a series of anti-pollution measures to control the plummeting air quality index (AQI) in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party government is also considering bringing back the ‘odd-even’ vehicle rationing scheme. Odd-even’ was first introduced in 2016 by the AAP government to control vehicular […]
The International Day For Biosphere Reserves
The International Day For Biosphere Reserves: November 3 will be the first ‘The International Day for Biosphere Reserves’, to be celebrated beginning 2022. Biosphere Reserve (BR) is an international designation by UNESCO for representative parts of natural and cultural landscapes extending over large area of terrestrial or coastal/marine ecosystems or a combination thereof. They are […]
Rhino Horns Are Shrinking
Rhino Horns Are Shrinking: According to a study, published in the latest edition of People and Nature by the British Ecological Society, the horns of rhinoceroses may have become smaller over time from the impact of hunting. One-horned Rhinos Also known as Indian rhino, it is the largest of the rhino species. It is identified […]
Centre For Science And Environment Report On Natural Disasters
Centre For Science And Environment Report On Natural Disasters: According to a recent CSE report, India saw natural disasters almost every day in the first 9 months of 2022. Key highlights of the report: India recorded extreme weather events on 242 of the 273 days from January 1 through September 30, 2022. These include […]
Carbon Credit Market
Carbon Credit Market: The Ministry for Power, New & Renewable Energy is taking steps to establish a Carbon Credit Market to help the country meet its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC). A carbon credit (also known as carbon offset) is a credit for greenhouse emissions reduced or removed from the atmosphere by an emission reduction project, […]
Terai Elephant Reserve
Terai Elephant Reserve: Centre has approved setting up Terai Elephant Reserve (TER) at Dudhwa-Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh. Elephant reserves are created under Project Elephant, a centrally sponsored scheme launched in 1992. Tamil Nadu and Assam have the highest number of elephant reserves with five each. Asiatic Elephant (IUCN: Endangered) is recognized as a National […]
