Samudrayaan Mission: India set to dive to explore marine biodiversity Subject :Environment Section: Biodiversity Concept : In order to explore the potential of the seabed, the National Institute of Ocean Technology’s (NIOT) MATSYA 6000 will dive 6,000-meter into the Indian Ocean under the Samudrayaan mission. Samudrayaan Mission (India’s Deep Ocean Mission) Samudrayaan, or […]
Run-up to UN Water Conference Subject :Environment Section: International Environmental Conventions Context: Expansion of bottled water industry works against achieving the Sustaianable Development Goal to supply safe drinking water to all by affecting investments. More on the News: The rapidly growing bottled water industry is helping mask a crippling world problem: the failure […]
World Weather Attribution Subject :Environment Section: Environmental Organisation World Weather Attribution World Weather Attribution (WWA) is an international collaboration of climate scientists who conduct rapid assessments of extreme weather events to determine the extent to which climate change may have contributed to them. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, a collaboration between climate […]
Horseshoe crabs Subject :Environment Section: Species in news Context: Horseshoe crabs disappearing off Odisha has scientists alarmed. More on the News: Horseshoe crabs, medicinally priceless and one of oldest living creatures on the earth, appear to be disappearing from their familiar spawning grounds along Chandipur and Balaramgadi coast in Odisha’s Balasore district. Scientists […]
10 fishermen on board TN trawler ‘hunt’ dolphins, held Subject : Environment Section: Species in news Context: 10 fishermen on board a Tamil Nadu fishing trawler were arrested by the Porbandar wildlife division of Gujarat Forest department on Thursday for allegedly hunting 22 common dolphins off the coast of Porbandar. Dolphin: Common dolphin, […]