New Courses GS Pre & Mains NCERT CSAT for UPSC Crash course for Pre 2026Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-04-06 KERALA FORESTS HOME TO NEW SPIDER SPECIES Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Wildlife Related Issues Habrocestum longispinum A group of jumping spiders that mostly occur in Eurasia and Africa, has been spotted for the first time in Ernakulam’s Illithodu forests by arachnologists from Kochi’s Sacred Heart…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-04-05 ‘AIR POLLUTION SHORTENED LIFESPAN BY 30 MONTHS’ Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Pollution – Air, Water, Soil & E-waste The current high level of air pollution has shortened the average lifespan of a South Asian child by two-and-a- half years while globally the reduction stands at 20 months,…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-21 FOR A HEALTHY PLANET Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Degradation – GHGs, Ozone Depletion and Climate Change Last week in Nairobi, governments welcomed the Global Environment Outlook 6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People (GEO-6) report. GEO-6 argues that in a business-as-usual scenario, the world will exhaust its energy-related carbon…
DetailsSource : www.pib.nic.in Date : 2019-03-20 3rd INDO-JAPAN WORKSHOP ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION HELD IN NEW DELHI Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Disaster and disaster management Ministry of Home Affairs 3rd Indo-Japan Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction held in New Delhi Posted On: 18 MAR 2019 6:55PM by PIB Delhi The 3 rd Indo-Japan Workshop…
DetailsSource : www.pib.nic.in Date : 2019-03-19 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DISASTER RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE TO BEGIN TOMORROW Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Disaster and disaster management Ministry of Home Affairs International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure to begin tomorrow Posted On: 18 MAR 2019 10:51AM by PIB Delhi An International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (IWDRI) will…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-19 FUTURE-PROOFING CITIES Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Degradation – GHGs, Ozone Depletion and Climate Change The stark statistics jump out at anyone trying to understand why resilient infrastructure is so important in a world that is urbanising at an unprecedented pace, not least here in India. Already around…
DetailsSource : www.hindustantimes.com Date : 2019-03-19 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS HAVE NO NATIONAL SOLUTIONS Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Conservation, Sustainable Development, and EIA Last week, the United Nations released a landmark report, The Global Environment Outlook (GEO), which made two important points that all national governments need to take seriously: One, environment damage (deadly…
DetailsSource : www.indianexpress.com Date : 2019-03-18 A GREENER WAY Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Conservation, Sustainable Development, and EIA In 2014, 193 countries asked the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to analyse how environmental degradation affects the social and economic well-being of people. In response, the UN’s environment body roped in 250 scientists and experts…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-17 UN MEET DILUTES INDIAN PLAN TO PHASE OUT SINGLE-USE PLASTICS Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Conservation, Sustainable Development, and EIA Wake-up call:Indian cities generate 15,000 tonnes of plastic waste daily. A file photo of a drain in New Delhi.PTIPTI An ambitious resolution piloted by India to phase out…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-16 STUDENTS WORLDWIDE SKIP CLASSES DEMANDING ACTION ON CLIMATE Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Conservation, Sustainable Development, and EIA They’re angry at their elders, and they’re not taking it sitting down. Students worldwide are skipping classes on Friday to take to the streets to protest their governments’ failure to…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-16 A FRESH WARNING: WHAT GEO-6 MEANS FOR INDIA Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Degradation – GHGs, Ozone Depletion and Climate Change The sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook from the UN Environment Programme has come as another stark warning: the world is unsustainably extracting resources and producing…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-02-22 LAKHS OF FOREST DWELLERS FACE EVICTION Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Rights & Welfare of STs, SCs, and OBCs – Schemes & their Performance, Mechanisms, Laws Institutions and Bodies A recent Supreme Court order may lead to the eviction of lakhs of persons belonging to the Scheduled Tribes…
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