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India to Co-chair Consultative Group of GFDRR
Recently, India is unanimously chosen as co-chair of the Consultative Group (CG) of Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) for...
15 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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More than 900 hectares of forest land has been gutted in wild-fire in Uttarakhand. The number of forest fires shot up to 14,107 from 4,225 between...
14 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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DNA Database for Indian Rhinos
The Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has begun a project to create DNA profiles of all rhinos in the country. The...
14 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Recently, the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii (USA), has detected the highest levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since...
14 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Kerala’s New Protocols for Managing Disasters
Picking up valuable lessons from the Cyclone ‘Ockhi’ disaster and the 2018 floods, the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA)...
13 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Cyclone Fani Creates Four New Mouths in Chilika Lake
The recent ‘Cyclone Fani’ which hit the eastern coast of India, has created four new mouths in Chilika Lake. Key points Before Fani...
11 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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The white-throated rail (Dryolimnas cuvieri) or Cuvier's rail is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Comoros, Madagascar,...
11 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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BRS Conventions COP Meet in Geneva
The “Triple COPs” meeting is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 29th to May 10th, 2019. Basel Convention...
10 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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California is banning a widely used pesticide that has been linked to brain damage in children. The state ban on Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide used on...
10 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a report, Sand and Sustainability: Finding new solutions for environmental governance of...
08 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Researchers have found that the Purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), lives almost its entire life in underground tunnels, comes out to the...
07 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Status of Conservation of Tigers
According to data released by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), poaching and electrocution were behind tiger deaths reported in the...
07 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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UN Report on Species Extinction
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has released the UN report on species extinction. It...
07 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Climate Change and Development in India
This editorial is based on the article 'Parley: Is India doing enough to combat climate change?' which appeared in "The Hindu" on May 3rd, 2019....
06 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Why in news? A 27-year-old hermit in Haridwar, Swami Atmabodhanand, has broken his 194-day fast in protest against sand mining and the upcoming...
06 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Glaciers are set to disappear completely from almost half of World Heritage Sites if business-as-usual emissions continue, according to the...
03 May 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Prayagraj on the Verge of an Epidemic after Kumbh
The NGT has reported the sad state of solid waste management during the months-long religious gathering of Kumbh. Issues raised Inadequate...
26 Apr 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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The Global Forest Watch (GFW) is released by World Resources Institute (WRI) which reveals that India has lost over 1.6 million hectare of tree cover...
26 Apr 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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An international team of scientists has published a way forward known as the Global Deal for Nature (GDN) to prevent the sixth mass extinction on...
24 Apr 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
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Recently, Olive ridley turtle eggs that were laid in March began hatching and thousands of baby olive ridley turtles have entered the bay of...
24 Apr 2019 Biodiversity & Environment
