In Australia, a land of wild extremes, recent flooding caused by Cyclone Debbie has killed at least six people.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie in 2017...
According to latest reports, mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef this year killed more corals than ever before.
The 2,300-kilometre long reef —...
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has launched a comprehensive Air Quality Index (AQI) and Air Information and Response (AIR) plan that would include an air pollution alert...
A government panel has approved that all non-cultivable hill land, rocky and sandy areas in the ecologically sensitive Aravalis in the entire National Capital...
Earth has just had the hottest January-September on record, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said today, adding that the average air and...
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a country-wide ban on “Chinese manjha”, a string used in kite flying.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson...
According to a study published journal Nature Climate Change, small natural ponds pose an overlooked danger for speeding up global warming.
Scientists in Britain found that...
Researchers have found two new endemic genera and a new species of songbird in Western Ghats of India.
Researchers has designated two new genera, the...
The Environment Ministry has reconstituted the Central Zoo Authority (CZA). The CZA is a statutory body chaired by the Environment Minister and tasked with...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed that India will ratify the Paris pact on Climate Change on October 2.
The decision is expected to give momentum...
The United Nations weather agency World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has kicked off of a two-year international effort to close gaps in polar forecasting capacity...
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has notified the revised standards for Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) operating at various industrial clusters...
Northeast and Assam Petro-chemicals, a state-owned company launched the Asia's first cannisters based and India's first "Methanol Cooking Fuel Program" in Namrup, Assam. The...
Bio Medical Waste Problem
Government of India (GoI) has notified the Bio medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986...
Severe Cyclonic Storm Mora is a currently active, but weakening tropical cyclone threatening Bangladesh.
Under the influence of a persistent area of convection, a low...
The Government of India through the National Tiger Conservation Authority has taken a number of milestone initiatives to protect and conserve tiger and other...
France’s minister of the environment Nicolas Hulot has unveiled a detailed a plan that includes ending the sale of fossil fuel-powered cars by 2040.
The...
Science Express Climate Action Special (SECAS II) was flagged off from Safdarjung Railway station in Delhi.
The SECAS II will run from February 17 to...
Tropical Storm Hermine moved towards US mid-Atlantic and northeastern states after slamming US state of Florida.
It caused two deaths, severe property damages from Florida...
New research demonstrates that the larvae not just contribute in global warming but also in disturbing the sedimentary layers at the bottom of lakes.
Chaoborus...
The Paris Agreement to combat climate change agreed in 2015 officially entered into force, putting pressure on nearly 200 countries to start executing plans...
In a massive government-run reforestation campaign, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan has grown 750 million trees.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or KP, launched the four-year...
At present National Centre of Seismology (NCS) , Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), maintains a National Seismological Network (NSN) comprising of 84 (eighty four)...
Recently, UN releases the report which tells about reducing global health risks through mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants
WHAT ARE SLCPS?
Short-lived climate pollutants (SCLPs), found...
Mali has become the first country to ratify the Kigali Amendment, a ground-breaking amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, a major...
Union Minister of Environment chaired the meeting on the issue of tackling air pollution in Delhi-NCR region.
The meeting noted that the air quality in...
Current Affairs: An historic agreement to combat climate change and unleash actions and investment towards a low carbon, resilient and sustainable future was agreed...
Japan ratified the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement to decrease emissions and prevent climate change, four days after the global pact officially entered into...
Geologists have discovered the biggest exposed fault on the earth at the Banda Detachment fault in eastern Indonesia and worked out how it formed.
The...
A typhoon Nock Ten hit the central Philippines, bringing strong winds and heavy rains.
Typhoon Nock-ten was packing maximum sustained winds of 185 kph (115...
Four people were killed in Tamil Nadu as a tropical storm VARDAH slammed into India’s southeastern coast with monstrous ferocity, uprooting trees and power...
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in association with State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) / Pollution Control Committees(PPCs) is monitoring the quality of water...
Tropical Storm Kai-Tak has hit the eastern Philippines. Kai-Tak hit the country's third-largest island Samar which was devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan four years...
Scientists have discovered undersea landslide in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
The remains of the slip, known as the Gloria Knolls Slide, were discovered 75 kilometres...
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued its first ever summer forecast which predicts a slightly higher temperature during April-June across the country in...
South Africa's Constitutional Court has removed a moratorium on the domestic trade in rhino horn.
A global ban in the horn trade, which is regulated...
Recently, the 'Trillion Trees Program' was launched by three conservation organizations – BirdLife International, the Wildlife Conservation Society and WWF.
'Trillion Trees Program' is a...
Air pollution has forced Iranian authorities to close kindergartens and all other schools in Tehran province for two days.
Decision for the school closure for...
According to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by NASA scientists, January 2017 was the third warmest January in 137 years of modern record-keeping.
January...
India has submitted a climate-change policy statement, to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ahead of a UN summit in Paris in December.
Environment...
60 people have been killed in huge forest fires in central Portugal. Portugal’s prime minister, António Costa, described these fires as “the greatest tragedy”. Three...
The steps taken by the Union Government to mitigate air pollution in cities in the country include the following:-
(i) Notification of National Ambient Air...
US President Barack Obama designated the country's first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean that aims to protect fragile deep-sea ecosystems off the...
India Met Department has proclaimed that the deep depression over East-central Bay of Bengal has strengthened into typhoon "Kyant."
'Kyant' lay focused around 620 km...
India has the largest participation of people living in the forests towards conservation efforts. National Wildlife Action Plan has been made landscape-based, rather than...
Recently, Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) has been signed between Green Climate Fund (GCF) and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
Several of the...
Scientists have discovered the first European cave fish. It was found in the north in Southern Germany.
Despite that relatively short period of evolutionary time, the...
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) urged world leaders to take note of the profound implications of record-high carbon dioxide readings...
Coccolithophores (tiny calcifying plants) have been increasing in relative abundance in the North Atlantic over the last 45 years, as carbon input into ocean...
Drought monitoring is important for characterizing the timing, extent, and severity of drought for effective mitigation and water management.
Researchers at the University of California...
Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave has launched the Stage-II of Phase Out Management Plan of Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HPMP).
Minister also discussed the implementation of HPMP Stage II,...
Two new species of parasitic plants have been discovered on the main island of Okinawa, Japan.
They have been named Gastrodia nipponicoides and Gastrodia okinawensis.
A new frog species was discovered in the Peruvian Andes, has been named after noted British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
The frog is...
Genetically modified crops (GMCs, GM crops, or biotech crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering...
Cornell atmospheric scientists have developed the first-of-its-kind, high-resolution Caribbean drought atlas, with data going back to 1950.
Concurrently, the researchers confirmed the region’s 2013-16 drought...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to roll back his predecessor Barack Obama's climate change measures.
The decree's main target is former...
Accroding to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), global emissions of mercury from man-made sources fell 30 percent from 1990 to 2010, in part from decreasing...
India launched an International Solar Alliance (ISA) at the CoP21 Climate Conference at Paris, with an announcement by Prime Minister Modi that the revolution...
Apple Inc. has joined a global renewable energy initiative RE100, a collaborative, global initiative of influential businesses committed to 100 per cent renewable electricity.
Launched...
Noting the significant impact climatic activities have on African people and countries, the World Bank Group announced today a new plan outlining actions required...
India and the UK have joined hands to start an observational campaign from June 8 till end-July to better understand small-scale processes that drive...
24 countries and the European Union agreed to create the world's largest marine park in the Antarctic Ocean.
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic...
Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has become the first airport in the Asia-Pacific region to achieve carbon neutral status.
DIAL is a GMR Group-led...
Current Affairs: According to a study released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and a partner agency on International Mountain Day,...
Union Minister for Environment released the ‘National REDD+ Strategy India’. In simple terms, REDD+ means “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation”, conservation of forest...
Three sub-species of snow leopard differentiated by geographical location:
1. the Northern group, Panthera uncia irbis, found in the Altai region,
2. the Central group, Panthera uncia...
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai Framework) is the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda, with seven targets and...
Global Land Outlook (GLO) report by the secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) was launched in Ordos, China.
This United Nations report warns...
The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached yet another new record high in 2014, continuing a relentless rise which is fuelling climate...
Current Affairs: Climate change is rapidly warming lakes around the world, threatening freshwater supplies and ecosystems, according to a new NASA study.
Using more than...
In the first-ever release of endangered species of vultures eight vultures from the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre in Panchkula, Haryana was released into the...
