2017-11-01T06:45:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
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 together with other anthropogenic drivers such as aerosols, land cover and solar radiation are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause of the observed warming [...]
2017-10-17T00:08:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
Why landslide mitigation is important:- […]
2017-10-06T23:14:57+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Changes in Global Atomic Policy The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed El Baradei in lieu of their work in preventing military use of nuclear energy and for their efforts towards the safest possible standards of the use of nuclear [...]
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 [...]
