Category: Environment Current Affairs

India Plastics Pact The India Plastics Pact, the first in Asia, will be launched in September in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Recently, a report published on closing the plastic circular Gap, suggested that there is a dire need to make large scale global interventions to […]

EUBOEA: Wildfires are continuing to rip through the Greek island of Evia with strong winds driving flames towards villages. Greece is experiencing its most severe heatwave in 30 years in which temperatures have spiked to 45C. Euboea or Evia is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia […]

Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC): The Indian Ocean is warming at a higher rate than other oceans, said the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released. The authors of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”, said the warming of the ocean would lead to […]

Hydrogen Fuel: Under ‘Mission Net Zero Carbon Emission Railway’ by 2030, Indian Railways are set to run trains on hydrogen fuel-based technology. For this, it is considering retrofitting of existing trains. Hydrogen is the lightest and first element on the periodic table. Since the weight of hydrogen is less than air, it rises in the […]

Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change: Sixth Assessment Report: The Geneva-based Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release the first part of its Sixth Assessment Report, the periodic status check that has now become the most widely accepted scientific view of the state of the Earth’s climate. This part of the report will present the […]

Plastic-Mixed Handmade Paper: Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has secured Patent registration for its innovative Plastic-mixed Handmade Paper developed to reduce plastic menace from nature. The plastic-mixed handmade paper (which is recyclable and eco-friendly) was developed under Project REPLAN (REducing PLAstic from Nature). The project was launched in September 2018 as part of KVIC’s […]

Swinhoe’s Softshell Turtle: In recent years, a lot of efforts have been put by the conservationists to save the world’s most endangered turtle, Swinhoe’s softshell turtle from the brink of extinction. The animal is also known as the Hoan Kiem turtle or Yangtze giant softshell turtle. In Vietnam, these animals have great cultural significance as […]

‘Net Zero’ Carbon Targets: Independent charitable organisation Oxfam has said that ‘net zero’ carbon targets that many countries have announced may be a “dangerous distraction” from the priority of cutting carbon emissions. “Land-hungry ‘net zero’ schemes could force an 80 per cent rise in global food prices and more hunger while allowing rich nations and […]

New Frog Species: Minervarya Pentali: A new frog species was discovered in the Western Ghats and named after former DU Vice-Chancellor and plant geneticist Deepak Pental. The new frog species named Minervarya Pentali belongs to the family of Dicroglossidae. The family Dicroglossidae comprises 202 species of semiaquatic frogs distributed by the tropical and subtropical regions […]