Ecology and Environment Current Affairs

Govt mulls policy to promote wind energy projects

AC Team 1 - March 9, 2016 0

Climate change could kill 500,000 adults by 2050

AC Team 1 - March 9, 2016 0

New Snake species discovered in Western Ghats

AC Team 1 - March 7, 2016 0

Japan To Stipulate 80% Emission Cut Goal By 2050

AC Team 1 - March 2, 2016 0

Sea sponge probably the first animal to have evolved in Earth

AC Team 1 - February 26, 2016 0

High sediment mercury levels reported in Arctic region

Sheerin - February 25, 2016 0

CPCB’s National AQI: Delhi is not the Pollution Capital

Puneet Kaur - February 9, 2016 0

UN exhorted maiden Gas Emissions Standards for Planes

Puneet Kaur - February 9, 2016 0

IARI releases seven new varieties of crops

Sheerin - February 8, 2016 0

Birds of 11 rare species found in Jharkhand

Sheerin - February 6, 2016 0

ISIS has destroyed Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery

Sheerin - January 21, 2016 1

Seven Ancient Buddhist Caves Discovered In Mumbai National Park

Sheerin - January 21, 2016 0

World’s largest canyon spotted by Chinese scientists

Sheerin - January 20, 2016 0

Global warming causes $1.5 trillion loss on middle-class

Puneet Kaur - January 13, 2016 0

U.S. places Indian Lion in endangered species list

U.S. listed Indian Lion in “endangered” species

Puneet Kaur - December 28, 2015 0

New Eel species discovered in West Bengal

Puneet Kaur - December 22, 2015 0

Glaciers in Mount Everest shrink 28% in 40 years: Report

Puneet Kaur - December 10, 2015 2

Beijing issued first-ever Red Alert on “Air Pollution”

Puneet Kaur - December 9, 2015 0

Indian Long Term Ecological Observatories (I-LTEO)

8 different biomes to be monitored through I-LTEO programme

Puneet Kaur - December 9, 2015 0

FSI - India’s forest and tree cover increased by 5081 sq km

FSI – India’s forest & tree cover increased by 5081 sq...

Puneet Kaur - December 7, 2015 1

Drought in 14708 Villages of Maharashtra

AC Team 1 - October 19, 2015 1

Science Express Special Train on Climate Change

AC Team 1 - October 17, 2015 0

National Watershed Management Project – Neeranchal

AC Team 1 - October 9, 2015 1

Programme for the Conservation of Eastern Hoolock Gibbon Launched

AC Team 1 - October 8, 2015 1

Indian scientists decode Tulsi plant genome

SenDhil - September 17, 2015 2

GFRA 2015 – India losing green cover more rapidly

SenDhil - September 17, 2015 1

Homo naledi: New species of human ancestor discovered in South Africa

SenDhil - September 13, 2015 4

Experts discovered existence of thriving port town in Thanjavur district in Sangam Era

Excavations reveal existence of thriving port town in Sangam era

SenDhil - September 13, 2015 0

WHO: Tobacco kills 1.3 million every year

SenDhil - September 11, 2015 0

India lost 41 tigers in 7 months: NTCA & Traffic India...

Sheerin - August 14, 2015 2

New frog species named ‘Indirana Salelkari’ discovered in Goa

SenDhil - August 3, 2015 1

Researchers spotted Six new species of spiders in Kerala

SenDhil - July 28, 2015 2

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Environment

Six New Odonate Species Discovered in Silent Valley National Park, Kerala

Four New Plant Species Discovered in the Western Ghats

New Dragonfly Species ‘Lyriothemis abrahami’ Discovered in Western Ghats

ZSI Discovered 4 New Species of Microscopic Parasitic Wasps in West Bengal

India Added 683 Faunal Species and 433 Flora Taxa to Biodiversity Records in 2024