Important Editorials on Environment
[Environment]Development vs Conservation<>Railway vs Wildlife
The world is pursuing a path of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, keys to human development. India is walking the same track, targeting a five trillion [...]
[Environment] Chipko Movement
Sunderlal Bahuguna with his wife, Vimla […]
[Environment] IPCC Report-“Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”
Context The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), titled ‘Climate Change [...]
[Environment] Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules
Context:- The Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules notified by the Centre on August 12 acknowledge the gravity of pollution caused by plastic articles of everyday [...]
Afghanistan’s centuries-old ‘Karez’ system of irrigation
The resurgent Taliban is on the victory march to Kabul. It has already taken provincial capitals as well as Afghanistan’s third-largest city of Herat. As [...]
[Environment] IPCC and the Science, Politics and Economy around Climate Change
Context Earlier this week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported on climate science, warning against the folly of a business-as-usual development model. Past [...]
EU’s Fit for 55 and Indian industry
European Union introduced new legislation, Fit for 55, to cut its GHG emissions by 55 per cent by 2030 and to net zero by 2050. [...]
India’s Solar Salvation
As India’s economy and population continue to grow, so too does its demand for energy. India is also particularly vulnerable to climate change. Solar power [...]
[Environment] Beat the climate crisis by investing in nature
In Paris in 2015, leaders from 192 nations committed to limit the increase of global average temperatures since pre-industrial levels to well below 2°C, while [...]
Ganga and Microplastics
The Ganga might have stood witness to many stages of India’s civilisation, as Mahatma Gandhi once noted, but in recent decades it has become a [...]
South Asia lightning Report ,2020
Important Points 1. According to South Asia lightning Report ,2020 by Earth Networks, a global weather intelligence agency -West Bengal received the highest number of lightning [...]
Gross Environment Product in Uttarakhand
Context The Uttarakhand government recently announced it will initiate valuation of its natural resources in the form of ‘Gross Environment Product’ (GEP), said to be [...]
[Environment] Mangroves, Mumbai and Climate change
THE occurrence of two cyclones in consecutive seasons—Cyclone Nisarga in 2020 and cyclone Tauktae in 2021—is highly unusual for the west coast of India but [...]
[Environment] Case Study-From Poachers to Protectors
Several residents of villages around Odisha’s Chilika lake have turned a new leaf in the past few years. They hunted and poached birds in the [...]
[Environment] Rooftop rainwater harvesting
India’s rapid urban growth is putting pressure on its already crumbling base of public service arrangements — especially its management of water and sanitation services, [...]
[Environment] How our detergent footprint is polluting aquatic ecosystems
Contamination and pollution of water are serious problems today. Many of the chemical substances that are disposed in water bodies are toxic and hazardous. Disease-causing [...]
[Environment] Only 25 cities responsible for 52% of global urban GHG emissions
Just 25 cities worldwide are responsible for 52 per cent of urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a recent study. Megacities in Asia such [...]
History of Conservation in India
Conservation in India found its roots when the killing of animals were strictly prohibited in and around the Ashramas (hermitages) allotted to Brahmanas. [...]
Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-30) by UN
The announcement by the United Nations terming 2021-30 as the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration could not have come at a more appropriate time. […]