2017-10-06T23:12:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Black carbon is a substance responsible for up to 40 per cent of the effects of global warming till date (Philadelphia Tribune, 2017), most of it made up of soot. Black carbon is a form of particulate matter that can be airborne and can be suspended in the atmosphere and [...]
2017-09-22T06:10:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
How data can heal our oceans […]
2017-08-27T21:42:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
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. […]
2017-08-14T13:24:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
Upcoming geological periods With climate change ruling the environment discourse, the sudden warming of the Earth in contemporary times prompted an official expert group to present a recommendation to the International Geological Congress to declare the geological period beginning since 1950 as the Anthropocene epoch. Since 2009, the Working Group [...]
2017-08-14T13:19:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Demystifying ecosystem services […]
2017-08-14T12:56:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
Climate change has led to increased temperatures, sea level rise, increased natural hazards, etc. Glaciers are the very sensitive to climate change and its affects can be seen in glaciated zones around the globe. […]
2017-08-03T13:55:45+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
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 world. Acid mine drainage (AMD) is one of the largest repercussions of mining on water resources. It is a risk associated with all kinds of hardrock [...]
2017-08-02T10:30:07+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by 2 Aug 22017, a report said. […]
2017-08-01T12:18:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
Background:- The tragedy of the monsoons is often floods and landslides — 2017 was no different. The Government of India claims that by July 28, 2017, a period by when the monsoons had made their onset over most of India, about 600 deaths have occurred across the country due to [...]
2017-07-28T15:58:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Article 1 of the UN Convention to combat desertification defines land degradation as a “reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain-fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a [...]
