Ecology and Environment Current Affairs

Japan To Stipulate 80% Emission Cut Goal By 2050

AC Team 1 - March 2, 2016 0

ISIS has destroyed Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery

Sheerin - January 21, 2016 1

Govt mulls policy to promote wind energy projects

AC Team 1 - March 9, 2016 0

Fossil of 250 million year old reptile species discovered

AC Team 1 - March 14, 2016 0

Third Tortoise Festival Organized in Assam

AC Team 1 - February 24, 2015 0

Global warming causes $1.5 trillion loss on middle-class

Puneet Kaur - January 13, 2016 0

UN exhorted maiden Gas Emissions Standards for Planes

Puneet Kaur - February 9, 2016 0

Wildlife trafficking threatens 30% world natural Heritage Sites: WWF

AC Team 1 - April 20, 2017 0

Algae with umbrella-like head, discovered on Andaman Island

Acetabularia jalakanyakae: New algae species discovered on the Island of Andaman...

AC Team - August 21, 2021 0

High sediment mercury levels reported in Arctic region

Sheerin - February 25, 2016 0

World’s first fully warm-blooded fish discovered

SenDhil - May 16, 2015 0

World Ocean Science Congress Concluded in Kerala

AC Team 1 - February 9, 2015 0

ISRO’s GSLV F-10 rocket fails to put EOS-03 Satellite into Orbit

AC Team - August 13, 2021 0

Earth has lost 53% of its wildlife since 1970: WWF...

AC Team 2 - August 16, 2019 0

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

Puneet Kaur - December 9, 2015 0

Quality Unknown- The Invisible Water Crisis

World bank reports economic growth to be affected by water pollution

AC Team 2 - August 22, 2019 0

UN General Assembly asks Israel to pay Lebanon over $850 million for oil spill

Researchers develop eco-friendly oil spill solution

AC Team 1 - June 29, 2015 0

Scientists in China discovered 600 million year old animal fossil

AC Team 1 - March 11, 2015 6

Two rare tree species discovered in Western Ghats

SenDhil - May 12, 2015 0

Koima: A new genus of freshwater fish discovered in Western Ghats

Ashwin AC - December 4, 2024 0

India is the top emitter of sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the...

AC Team 2 - August 19, 2019 0

GFRA 2015 – India losing green cover more rapidly

SenDhil - September 17, 2015 1

Periyar Tiger Reserve bags the NTCA Award

AC Team 1 - January 21, 2015 0

Volcanic Eruptions in Mexico’s Colima

AC Team 1 - February 8, 2015 0

‘Animal Discoveries 2016, New Species and Records’, brought out by the Zoological Survey of India and ‘Plant Discoveries 2016’, by the Botanical Survey of India

India’s biodiversity riches grow by 499 species

AC Team 1 - June 6, 2017 0

IPCC “special report” on oceans and Earth’s frozen zones warns of...

AC Team 2 - August 30, 2019 0

Researchers discover 6 new ginger species in Meghalaya, Mizoram

Six New Ginger Species Discovered in West Bengal, Meghalaya & Mizoram

AC Team - September 11, 2024 0

ZSI team discovers new pangolin species in Arunachal (1)

New Pangolin species discovered in Arunachal Pradesh by ZSI team

Ashwin AC - January 11, 2025 0

Nepal’s “Towards Zero Poaching in Asia” Symposium concluded

AC Team 1 - February 7, 2015 2

Losgna Occidentalis, a new Wasp Species Discovered in Chandigarh

Ashwin AC - June 10, 2025 0

Serbian scientists name new species of beetle after Djokovic

Serbian scientists named new species of Beetle after Novak Djokovic

AC Team - October 18, 2022 0

Olive Ridley turtle rescued in Mumbai: About Oliver Turtles

AC Team 1 - June 28, 2015 1

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Environment

‘Agasthyamala’ included among UNESCO’s new 20 Biosphere Reserves

Drought in 14708 Villages of Maharashtra

North Pole’s largest-ever ozone hole, 620,000 square miles, finally closes

North America Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake

Indian Scientists discover 3 new species of fishes under genus ‘Dawkinsia’ in western ghats