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 […]
Delhi to get 1000 sandalwood trees Subject: Environment Section: Biodiversity Context:Following directions of Delhi Lieutenant Governor, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) plans to plant around 1,000 red and white sandalwood (chandan) trees across New Delhi and Lutyens’ areas. Content: The sandalwood trees will be planted in secured areas and parks such as […]
Biomedical wastes Subject : Environment Section :Pollution Context: Biomedical waste is a universal problem Concept: To protect human health and the environment, the Ministry of Environment and Forests had notified the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986) and later notified Bio-medical Waste Management […]
‘Rights of Nature’ Is a Faux Rights Revolution Entangled in Anthropocentrism Subject: Environment Section: Art and Culture Context: In three recent cases, the Madras and the Uttarakhand high courts invoked parens patriae to confer rights on natural elements like rivers and glaciers. What is Parenspatrie? Parens patriae conceives of nature as a perpetual […]
Stay away from Congo’s ‘carbon bomb’ auction, Greenpeace urges Big Oil Subject : Environment Section :Pollution Context: Greenpeace has urged major oil and gas companies to not participate in a huge auction of oil blocks in Democratic Republic of Congo at the end of July. It has called it a carbon bomb. What are carbon […]