The Amazon basin is the world’s largest repository of biodiversity producing about twenty percent of the world’s flow of freshwater. However, it has been under threat due to...
Model Answer: The rise in global demand of palm oil has led to higher production and higher global acreage under its production at the costs of forests. Deforestation,...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published a special report on the implications of a 1.5 degrees C rise in average global temperature. Key Findings of...
The WHO has released a report on air pollution and Child health on the eve of the WHO’s first ever global conference on Air Pollution and Health. WHO...
A paper published in the “Journal of Hydrology” has found a spatial variation in ecosystem’s ability to sustain drought. The researchers used biomass and evapo-transpiration to understand how...
India accounts for 16 percent of the world’s population while it has just 4 percent of the world’s water resources. With the rise in population, the demand for...
World Bank calls India’s urbanisation process as messy. Improper solid waste management had immensely contributed in making the process of urbanisation messy. Loopholes in Urban solid waste management...
The Bharat Stage norms are standards set by the government to regulate emission of air pollutants from motor vehicles. The norms set the limit for the release of air...
