A major portion of the territory of India experiences flood during monsoon season in June-July. And several other places like Uttarakhand experience the same due to abrupt rainfall....
The South Asian Himalayan system is critical for the survival of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. Factors responsible for glacier melting: Global warming has led to increase...
Recent deaths of children who consumed Mid-day meal in Bihar due to high level of pesticides has again brought the attention to pesticide regulation. Pesticide management bill would...
Arsenic is a heavy inorganic metal pollutant that causes great damage to humans and various other ecosystems. Sources: Iron and steel smelting plants. Car plants. Mining sites due...
Human Stampedes are sudden rush of a crowd of people usually resulting in many injuries and deaths. Most deaths during stampede occur due to suffocation and trampling. Stampedes...
Ocean salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt present in the water body of the ocean. Salts compounds present in the water are sodium chloride, magnesium sulfate,...
At the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit in New York in October 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the launch of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure...
Due to climate change and variation in rainfall pattern, Monsoon season in India sometime leads to floods in the northwest and the northeast region, on the other hand,...
Stubble burning is an agricultural practice used by farmers to prepare the field for sowing next crop, by burning the residue of the last crop. The issue with...
