Category: Environment Current Affairs

Community-Based Inclusive Development (CBID) Program: Launched recently by the Union Ministry of Social Justice. The program aims to create a pool of grass-root rehabilitation workers at the community level who can work alongside ASHA and Anganwadi workers to handle cross-disability issues and facilitate inclusion of persons with disabilities in the society. The program has been […]

Single-Use Plastic:   A report was published which gave details of who makes single-use plastic, 130 million tons a year at last count, and who makes money from it. The report was published by Minderoo, a nonprofit organization based in Australia along with academics at the University of Oxford and the Stockholm Environment Institute. Major […]

Snow Leopard: WWE Report: The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) has released a report titled “Over 100 Years of Snow Leopard Research — A spatially explicit review of the state of knowledge in the snow leopard range”. Key findings: More than 70 per cent habitat of the snow leopard, over 12 Asian countries, remains […]

Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS): Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Microsoft sign MoU on Joint initiative for Digital Transformation of Tribal Schools such as Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) and Ashram Schools. Under the affirmative action initiative, Microsoft will make AI curriculum available to tribal students in both English and Hindi at all EMRS schools […]

Red-Eared Slider Turtle: The invasive red-eared slider can become a major threat to the biodiversity of water bodies across the Northeast region of India. The Northeast region of India is home to more than 72% of the turtle and tortoise species in the country. Scientific Name: Trachemys scripta elegans Habitat: U.S. and northern Mexico Description: […]

MICE RAIN: Australia: The government of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia has extended a support package of $50 million to farmers to deal with a devastating mouse plague that has affected farmers, community members, and residents. To control the plague, the government has now authorized the use of an otherwise outlawed poison called The […]

Ocean Rewilding: Ocean Rewilding is expected to come up in COP26. A network of 68 European organizations are working together to find ways to reinvigorate the marine life of the earth. A growing number of conservationists reject the notion that mass tree planting is a “catch-all” solution to all of our climate problems. On land, […]

Beema Bamboo: The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has designed an ‘oxygen park’ within its premises at Coimbatore with Beema Bamboo. Beema or Bheema Bamboo is a superior clone, selected from Bambusa balcooa, a higher biomass yielding bamboo species. This bamboo clone has been developed by the conventional breeding method. This species is considered to […]

Animal Corridor: There are cases of clearance of forest land, digging, and construction activities on at least three animal corridors within the eco-sensitive zone of the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve. The Supreme Court of India in its 2019 order had said that “No new construction shall be permitted on private lands which form […]

Global Methane Assessment: Benefits And Costs Of Mitigating Methane Emissions: A report, titled Global Methane Assessment: Benefits and Costs of Mitigating Methane Emissions suggested that the world needs to dramatically cut methane emissions to avoid the worst of climate change. The report was released by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and the United Nations […]