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Climate Change alters plants’ functional traits Subject: Environment Section: Climate Change Context: ‘PhenObs’ — an open network of researchers, citizens, scientists and students studying botanist gardens across the Northern Hemisphere (studied 212 plant species across five botanical gardens in Germany) published the report in New Phytologist June 28. Content: Phenology is the study of growing, leafing, […]
Migratory monarch butterflies officially declared ‘endangered’ Subject: Environment Section: Biodiversity Context: The migratory monarch butterfly, a sub-species of the monarch butterfly that travels around 4,000 kilometres across America each year, has been classified ‘endangered’ in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species July 21, 2022. Content: Monarchs, the […]
Micronesia- the remote Pacific islands that have finally succumbed to a Covid outbreak Subject : Geography Section: Mapping The Federated States of Micronesia, a small island country in the Pacific that is home to around 110,000 people, is one of the latest places on Earth to experience an outbreak of Covid-19, after two […]
Transmission Protection Instrument Subject : Economy Section : External Sector The European Central Bank has lifted its record-low minus 0.5% deposit rate to zero, first rate hike in 11 years. It has further ended its eight-year experiment with negative interest rates, by increasing the main refinancing rate to 0.50%. As ECB rates rise, […]
Govt: No proposal to increase SC, HC judges’ retirement age Subject :Polity Section: Judiciary Context: Recently Attorney General had stressed that the need to increase the retirement age of Judges. Why increase retirement age? Huge pendency of cases Concept : The idea of increasing the age of retirement for judges has been mooted […]
Women have right to safe abortion: SC Subject : Polity Section: Fundamental right Context: The Supreme Court recently held in an order that denying an unmarried woman the right to a safe abortion violates her personal autonomy and freedom. Concept : The law could not be used to quench “notions of social morality” […]
Food security for migrant workers Subject: Polity Section: Fundamental Rights The Supreme Court on Thursday told the Centre and the State governments that no citizen should die of hunger, and food should reach the homes of every migrant worker States that right to food was a fundamental right under Article 21 of the […]
WHO reports 14000 cases of monkey pox across the globe? Subject :Science and technology Section: Disease Context: Context: The World Health Organization has confirmed 14,000 cases of monkey pox worldwide, With five deaths reported in Africa Monkeypox Virus: Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease that occurs primarily in tropical rainforest areas of central […]
The sweltering heat wave across Europe Subject :Geography Section: Climatology Context: Context: Large swathes of Europe, the U.K. and the U.S. are sweltering under extreme heat wave conditions. What is behind the extreme heat waves? The heat waves are a result of climate change caused by human activity. Global temperatures have already risen […]