Mains Specials

Bio–Diversity And Environment

Sustainable Development

1 Environmental Flows of Ganga

2 Eastern Ghats Face Loss of Forest Cover, Endemic Plants

3 Global Geopark Network Status

4 India Bans 18 Pesticides

5 eDNA

6 Kerala Floods and the Fragile Ecosystem of Western Ghats

7 Impact of Sand Mining and Alternatives to Sand

8 Notification on Clean Fuel

9 Law to Define a River’s Edge

10 e-Mobility Programme

11 SC Seeks Details of Green Funds

12 Joint Research Projects for Clean Water, Energy

13 Tiger Extinction Risk

14 Questions in Parliament on Plastics

15 Development of Solar Cities

Disaster Management

1 Drought in Maharashtra

2 Role of Water & Ecological Systems in Drought Resilience

3 New Trend in Floods

4 Classifications of Disasters

5 Apps for Disaster Info

6 National Disaster Risk Index

7 Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project

8 Moss : A Cheap Pollution Monitor

Pollution

1 Formaldehyde in Fish

2 Clean Air is a Human Right: WHO

3 Biomass Pellets

4 Cleaning the Ganga

5 SATAT Initiative to Promote Compressed Bio-Gas

6 WAYU: New Device to Tackle Pollution

7 CFC-11 in Atmosphere

8 Shale Oil or Gas Extraction by Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)

9 Herbicide Glyphosate

10 Plastic Road Surfacing

11 Protecting Bay of Bengal

12 Uranium Contamination of Water

13 Iron Ore Mining Leases in Goa

14 National Aquifer Mapping Programme (NAQUIM)

15 Dust Mitigation Plan

16 Ambient Air Quality Standards in India

17 Moss that can Remove Lead from Water

18 Global E-waste Monitor 2017

19 Soil Crisis in India

20 Sensor Network to Map and Predict Pollution, Effluents in Godavari

21 Black Carbon

22 Chemicals in Firecrackers

23 Bharat Stage Norms

24 National Air Quality Index (AQI)

25 Methanol as Cooking Fuel

26 Furnace Oil and Pet Coke

27 Bio-CNG

28 Carbon Capture Utilization Storage (CCUS)

29 Microbeads

Biodiversity & Conservation

1 Odisha Beach is Asia’s first to get ‘Blue Flag’ Tag

2 Just Six Sub-species of Tiges Remain

3 Eight Captive-Reared Vultures to be released with Tracking Devices

4 Genes of Machhli to be Mapped

5 Agarwood Facing Extinction

6 Kulik Bird Sanctuary

7 Woolly Mammoths to be brought from the Dead

8 Gene Banks of Wild Animals

9 Ocean’s Dead Zones

10 Biodiversity of Manipur’s Loktak Lake under Threat

11 Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve (KBR)

12 First Inter-State Tiger Translocation Project

13 Nilgiri Hills

14 World’s Smallest Land Fern in Western Ghats

15 Illegal Wildlife Trade Restrictions Recognised

16 Conservation of Animals: Smaller Species are Neglected Lot

17 Orang Tiger Reserve

18 Three New Sites Recognised as Biodiversity Hotspots in Goa

19 Nine more Bird, Biodiversity Areas in Kerala

20 SECURE Himalaya

21 National Wildlife Action Plan

22 Floating Treatment Wetland

23 Celebration of World Wetlands Day at Deepor Beel in Assam

Animal Diversity

1 Climate Change Threatens Nilgiri Tahr

2 Survival Threat to Sher Mahi Fish

3 Rise in Population of Asiatic Lions

4 Snow Leopard

5 Olive Ridley Sea Turtle

6 Sawfish

7 Flamingo

8 Chiru Goat

9 Nilgiri Marten

10 Zygaenid

11 New Species of the Genus Nasikabatrachus

12 A New Snake found in Western Ghats

13 New Species of Large Gecko Discovered from Eastern Ghats

14 New Ant Species Discovered in the Western Ghats

15 New Night Frog Species

16 Rare Sub-species of Hog Deer

17 Two New Gecko Species Discovered

18 Black-necked Cranes

19 Hornbill Watch Initiative

20 Red Data Book

Plant Diversity

1 Discovery of Nine Plants in Western Ghats

2 New Plant Species Found in Western Ghats

3 Gandheli Rediscovered

4 Gleadovia konyakianorum

5 Retrotransposons

6 Musa paramjitiana

7 Sunderbans is Losing its Mangrove Forest

8 Cobra Lily

9 Bihar’s Shahi Litchi gets GI Tag

10 GI Tag for Alphonso Mango from Konkan

11 Nilambur Teak

12 Kirunji Flowers Bloom
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