Important Editorials on Environment
Environment – ASAN | Uttarakhand’s First Ramsar Site !!!
The state of Uttarakhand has got its first Ramsar Site—a wetland of international importance. The Asan Conservation Reserve, located on the banks of River [...]
Environment-Sustainable Ecotourism in India !!!
Ecotourism in India:- Ecotourism as a term first emerged during the late 1980s with growing global concern for sustainable practices with regard to ecologies [...]
EcoEconomics-Economics in Environmental Sustainability.
The Brundtland Commission in its report titled Our Common Future in 1987 defined the concept of sustainable development as development addressed towards the needs [...]
Environment-Biodiversity-Conservation and Threats !!!
Thomas Lovejoy in 1980 coined the term ‘Biological Diversity’ which was later modified by E. O. Wilson in 1986 who coined the term ‘Biodiversity’ in his [...]
Environment-Global Warming and Impacts of Glacial Meltdowns on Indian Rivers !!!
Other than the polar regions, the Himalayas follow as the largest deposit of frozen water in the world, especially in the case of Himalayan [...]
Environment-Global Warming and Impacts of Glacial Meltdowns on Indian Rivers !!!
Himalayan glaciers make up about 17 per cent of the Himalayas and about 37 per cent of the Karakoram Range. […]
Environment-The Basic Possible Impacts of Climate Change in the Himalayas !!!
Climate Change in the Himalayas is a major topic of worry for climate watchers in the Subcontinent and across the world. The Himalayas have [...]
Environment- India’s Solar Dilemma !!!
Parties to the historic Paris Accord on climate change signed in 2015 meet in Bonn next week, and their discussions will inevitably veer toward [...]
Environment-Climate Change and Antarctic Biodiversity !!!
Not being residentially inhabited by human populations and instead being a place where largely scientific research is the mainstay, one would expect Antarctic biodiversity [...]
Environment/Geography-Desertification in India, a disturbing truth !!!
The terms desertification refers to degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. [...]
Environment-Governmental initiatives on climate change !!!
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) in its Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report published in 2015 states that increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions [...]
Environment/Geography-Approaches for Landslide Mitigation !!!
Why landslide mitigation is important:- […]
Enviroment-The Environment and Atomic Policy of the United Nations !!!
Changes in Global Atomic Policy The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed El Baradei [...]
Environment-Black Carbon as an Important Climate Change Challenge !!!
Black carbon is a substance responsible for up to 40 per cent of the effects of global warming till date (Philadelphia Tribune, 2017), most [...]
Geography- How data can heal our oceans
How data can heal our oceans […]
Environment-A sixth mass extinction is underway !!!
The disappearance of the dinosaurs is probably the world’s most famous example of a mass extinction, but it’s certainly not the only one. [...]
Environment-The age of Anthropocene !!!
Upcoming geological periods With climate change ruling the environment discourse, the sudden warming of the Earth in contemporary times prompted an official expert group [...]
Environment-Understanding ecosystem services and ecological niche !!!
Demystifying ecosystem services […]
Environment-GLOF threats to the Indian Subcontinent and its Monitoring !!!
Climate change has led to increased temperatures, sea level rise, increased natural hazards, etc. Glaciers are the very sensitive to climate change and its [...]
Environment-Acid Mine Drainage and its Environmental Repercussions !!!
Water is considered mining’s biggest casualty of all time given the huge scale at which mining of different types are advancing in today’s [...]