2017-01-31T03:35:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Polity|Tags: environment, policy|
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests, under the Chairpersonship of Renuka Chowdhury, Member of Parliament presented its Two Hundred and Ninety-third Report on ‘Forest Fires and its Effect on Environment, Forests, Bio-diversity and Wildlife and remedial/preventive measures’ to both the Houses of Parliament on [...]
2017-01-31T03:53:56+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|Tags: environment|
By 2050, India will experience a temperature rise of 1-4°C and rainfall will increase by 9-16 per cent. This will have a detrimental effect on farmers. Sensitivity 12 states* have districts that are highly sensitive to climate change Sensitivity is the degree to which a region gets affected by climate-related [...]
2017-01-31T03:54:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|Tags: environment|
WHENEVER a dictionary of green terms is written, even if it is in English, it will contain at least one Hindi word. And that word is Chipko. The idea that people are prepared to hug trees to save them from being felled excited and enthused [...]
2017-01-03T22:34:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|Tags: environment|
A tale from the banks of Ganga:- Winters are extremely hectic for Sushma Patel, a vegetable grower in Uttar Pradesh’s Chunar town. Her farm is in the fertile plains of Ganga where people grow three crops a year. But this is the only season when she can grow vegetables. And [...]
2016-12-21T23:00:44+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|Tags: environment|
The study of coral reefs have had a late beginning. Earlier studies had accounted for only 218 species. Successive surveys made between 2008 and 2013 have reported the occurrence of 519 hard corals in India. […]
2017-02-13T21:23:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|Tags: biodiversity, environment, india|
Biodiversity Profile Of India:- […]
