World Meteorological Congress Subject – Environment Context – World Meteorological Congress calls for international cooperation in meteorology, climatology, operational hydrology Concept – Weather, climate and the water cycle are oblivious to national borders and so global cooperation in the domains of meteorology, climatology and operational hydrology is crucial. In 2021, both the developed […]
Hornbills Subject – Environment Context – Save hornbills, for they are the gardeners of tropical forests: Study Concept – Scientists from two organisations studied how fruiting plants and hornbills influenced each other’s distribution in the Namdapha Tiger Reserve. The reserve, located in Arunachal Pradesh, is one of India’s most biodiverse protected areas. It […]
Antarctic Larsen C ice shelf break in 2017 Subject – Environment Context – NASA has an answer for Antarctic Larsen C ice shelf break in 2017 Concept – When an iceberg, more than nine times the size of Mumbai in India, split off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf July 10-12, 2017, the […]
Govt Proposes To Redefine Forests Subject – Environment Context – Last week, the Ministry for Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) published proposed amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, easing diversion of forests and exempting certain categories of development from the need to take clearance from the Ministry. Concept – Last week, […]
Gene-Edited Plants Subject – Environment Context – ‘Approve norms for gene-edited plants without delay’ Concept – With an “inordinate delay” in pronouncing safety norms for gene-edited plants delaying research, a group of pro-biotechnology intellectuals and scientists have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing concern over the undue delay. Seeking his attention to […]
Net Zero Emissions Subject – Environment Context – India needs 5,630 GW solar capacity by 2070 for net zero emissions: study Concept – India’s total installed solar power capacity will need to increase to 5630 gigawatt (GW) by 2070 in order to achieve net zero emissions, according to a new report by independent […]
Grey Hydrogen Subject – Environment Context – IOC plans to use grey hydrogen to make aviation fuel Concept – Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) will put up a ‘demo plant’ within the next two years to convert ethanol into a biogas that would be used to run aircraft. The ‘alcohol-to-jet’ fuel (ATJ) plant will […]
Carbon Footprint Tracker And Satellite Imagery Suite Subject – Environment Context – Carbon footprint tracker and satellite imagery suite unveiled by Google Cloud Concept – Alphabet Inc’s Google will tell its cloud customers the carbon emissions of their cloud usage and open satellite imagery to them for the first time for environmental analysis, […]
Bioethanol blending in aviation fuel Subject – Environment Context – ‘Bioethanol can be reliable aviation fuel’ Concept – Bioethanol can be a sustainable fuel for the aviation sector. It can provide 80% savings on greenhouse gas emissions and be blended up to 50% with conventional jet fuels without any modification. It has already […]
Sea Rise Subject – Environment Context – ‘Seas will rise for centuries to come’ Concept – Even if humanity beats the odds and caps global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, seas will rise for centuries to come and swamp cities currently home to half-a-billion people, researchers warned. In a world […]