Can planting trees mitigate climate change? Subject: Environment While trees are important carbon sinks, there is significant data that shows that the global potential for trees to mitigate climate change is grossly overestimated. Low survival of saplings, unsuitable planting sites, lack of good quality seeds, wrong trees planted in the wrong places and […]
Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests Subject: Environment Context: Disappearing Kelp forest What are kelp forests? Kelp forests grow along more than one-quarter of the world’s coastlines, and are among the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But these critical habitats are disappearing due to warming oceans and other human impacts. Kelp forests […]
Just Stop Oil Subject: Environment Context: Unique way of protest Just Stop Oil: Launched earlier this year, Just Stop Oil describes itself as “a coalition of groups working together to ensure the government commits to halting new fossil fuel licensing and production”. Led by organisers from climate groups Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain […]
Protecting Our Planet Subject: Environment It is an initiative by 9 philanthropic organizations who have collectively pledged $5 billion over ten years in support of the creation, expansion, management, and monitoring of protected and conserved areas of land, inland water, and sea. It will fund High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People (HAC) […]
EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy to brand gas and nuclear plants as ‘green’ Subject: Environment Section: Climate Change Context: EU has recently agreed to label investments in some gas and nuclear power plants as environment-friendly. What is EU taxonomy? It is a classification system, establishing a list of environmentally sustainable economic activities. It could […]
Environment ministry Proposes to soften the provisions of the Environment Protection Act (EPA) Subject: Environment Environment ministry Proposes to soften the provisions of the Environment Protection Act (EPA) by replacing a clause that provides for imprisoning violators with one that only requires them to pay a fine. However, in case of serious violations […]
Restoring Banni grasslands- Gujarat battles invasive tree species Subject: Environment Banni is the largest grassland of Asia situated near the Great Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. It is spread over 2,618 kilometres and accounts for almost 45% of the pastures in Gujarat. Two ecosystems, wetlands and grasslands, are mixed side by side in Banni. Banni […]
Nairobi flies are causing disease in Sikkim Subject: Environment It is also called Kenyan flies or dragon bugs, are small, beetle-like insects that belong to two species, Paederus eximius and Paederus sabaeus. Native to East Africa. Like most insects, the beetles are attracted by bright light. thrive in areas with high rainfall the […]