Category: Environment Current Affairs

Kerala’s Protest Against ESZ Notification: Farmers in Kerala are protesting against Supreme Court’s order to establish Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZs). The SC has directed to have a mandatory ESZ of minimum one kilometre measured from the demarcated boundary of every protected forest, including the national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. The Kerala State Assembly demands the Centre […]

Varanasi Has Been Selected As The SCO Region’s First Tourism And Cultural Capital: Ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit to be held in September 2022, Varanasi has been selected as the SCO region’s first “Tourism and Cultural Capital for 2022-23. The SCO summit will be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan where Iran and Belarus […]

Forest Fires: In France, Greece, Portugal and Spain, wildfire destroys thousands of hectares of land, forces thousands from their homes and kills several emergency personnel. A wildfire is a major fire that breaks out unpredictably in combustible environments such as dry forests or bush and often burns uncontrollably over a large area and length of […]

Great Indian Bustard: Only four Female Great Indian Bustards (GIB) are left in Gujarat. According to a 2018 count, India has fewer than 150 GIBs, of which 122 are in Rajasthan Great Indian Bustard: It is the State bird of Rajasthan and is considered India’s most critically endangered bird. It is considered the flagship grassland […]

Changes In Forest Conservation Rules (FCA) 1980: The Forest Conservation Rules deal with the implementation of the Forest Conservation Act (FCA), 1980. They prescribe the procedure to be followed for forest land to be diverted for non-forestry uses such as road construction, highway development, railway lines, and mining. Aim of FCA: The broad aims of […]

District Climate Change Missions: The Tamil Nadu government has established District Climate Change Missions in all 38 districts. The missions will be headed by the Collectors as Mission Directors. The District Forest Officers will function as Climate Officers. The missions will help strengthen the government’s climate response at the grassroots, said Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief […]

India Has Achieved Clean Energy Targets: India has achieved clean energy targets nine years ahead of schedule, Union Power Minister R.K. Singh said at the Sydney Energy Forum in Sydney. India has installed 162 GW (1 GW is 1,000 MW) of renewable energy capacity, which is 41% of the 402 GW of electricity installed. “We […]

Major Economies Forum On Energy And Climate (MEF): The Union Minister for Environment, Shri Bhupender Yadav, represented India at the virtual meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF), hosted by U.S. President Joseph Biden. The Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) was launched on March 28, 2009. The MEF […]

Azooxanthellate Corals: Scientists have recorded four species of corals for the first time from Indian waters. These new species of azooxanthellate corals were found from the waters off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. All the four groups of corals are from the same family, Flabellidae. Truncatoflabellum crassum (Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848), T. incrustatum (Cairns, […]