The high-altitude yak, feeling the climate change heat across the Himalayan belt, will now be insured.The National Research Centre on Yak (NRCY) at Dirang in Arunachal Pradesh’s West Kameng district…
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National Green Tribunal
Observing that all five zonal Benches of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) are equally powerful and that their orders would be applicable pan India, the Madras High Court has disapproved…
Last Ice Area
WWF-Canada coined the Last Ice Area, a polar region above Nunavut and Greenland where scientists project sea ice will persist the longest in the face of a warming world. •It’s…
‘Heat Dome’ Effect
Canada and parts of United States are experiencing extreme temperatures, due to which hundreds of people have died. The weather is due to heat dome, a climate phenomenon behind sudden…
Summer Solstice
Equinox and Solstice occur because Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted about 23.4 degrees relative to Earth's orbit around the sun. This tilt drives our planet's seasons, as the Northern…
Turkey’s Challenging ‘Sea Snot’
The sea of Maramara, which lies within Turkey and separates Istanbul between Europe and Asia, is festered with a new challenge- sea snot. The sludge has also been seen in…
Operation Pangea XIV
A record number of fake online pharmacies have been shut down under Operation Pangea XIV targeting the sale of counterfeit and illicit medicines and medical products. The operation coordinated by…
Black Carbon
In a report titled “Glaciers of the Himalayas, Climate Change, Black Carbon and Regional Resilience", the World Bank said that the Black carbon (BC) deposits produced by human activity which…
Niti Aayog’s SDG India Index
India saw significant improvement in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to clean energy, urban development and health in 2020, according to the NITI Aayog’s 2020 SDG Index. The country’s…