Light Pollution Subject: Environment Section: Pollution Context: Ladakh to have India’s first ‘Dark Sky Reserve’ to promote astronomy tourism Concept: What is a Dark Sky Reserve? A Dark Sky Reserve is public or private land with a distinguished nocturnal environment and starry nights that has been developed responsibly to prevent light pollution. According […]

    Urgency brews to foreground loss and damage at COP27 Subject : Environment Section: Climate change The progress in establishing a Loss and Damage Finance Facility (LDFF) has been slow over the years, but experts say that the UNFCCC COP27 this year might be different, as the Glasgow Dialogue has initiated important conversations on […]

    Spectre of Day Zero: How South Africa is revising its water strategy Subject : Environment Section: Climate change South Africa’s water and sanitation department is revising its decade-old National Water Resource Strategy (NWRS). Parts of the country face a water crisis, with Nelson Mandela Bay staring at a Day Zero situation. Version 2.6 […]

    Delegates come close but fail again to clinch high seas protection treaty Subject: Environment Section: Climate change Context: Treaty failed to be concluded at the Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction. What is the proposed UN High Seas treaty? Also referred to as the ‘Paris Agreement for the Ocean’, […]

    Spartech waste post-demolition Subject :Environment Section: Pollution Context: Spartech waste post-demolition Details: The Supertech Twin towers in Sector 93A of Noida, Uttar Pradesh were demolished by controlled implosion at 2.30 pm August 28, 2022. Their being located in a residential neighbourhood of Noida makes it even more essential to introduce interventions to mitigate […]

    To achieve net-zero emissions target by 2070 India needs $10-tn investment from now: report Subject : Environment Section: Climate change According to the ‘Getting India to Net Zero’ report, the investment required will be $13.5 trillion if the target is to be met by 2050. The report also says achieving net-zero by 2070 […]