What are invasive species? An invasive species can be any kind of living organism—an amphibian, plant, insect, fish, fungus, or bacteria—that is not native to an ecosystem and causes harm. Not all non-native species are invasive. For example, most of …
About Ganges River Dolphin The Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) is one of the five river dolphins found in the world. The species is found in the Ganga and Brahmaputra river basins of India, Nepal and Bangladesh. They feed …
About CPCB The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), statutory organisation, was constituted in 1974 under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. Further, CPCB was entrusted with the powers and functions under the Air (Prevention and Control of …
About EBP Government has been implementing the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme wherein Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) sell petrol blended with ethanol up to 10%. This programme has been extended to the whole of India except Union Territories of Andaman …
Background Fertilizers are crucial productivity augmenting inputs. To meet the challenge of rising demand for food, feed, and fibre with limited land and water resources, it is imperative to augment land productivity and one way to do this is to …
What’s in the news? Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to launch a global initiative ‘Lifestyle for the Environment, LiFE, Movement’. The initiative aims to promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle that focuses on ‘mindful and deliberate utilisation’ instead of ‘mindless …
IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) has so far published two installments of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The first report, “The Physical Science Basis” released in September 2021, unequivocally attributed extreme weather events to …
Evolution of Pastoralism By the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, which began 2.6 million years ago and lasted until 11,700 years ago, both settled agriculture and pastoralism had begun. The latter, an expansive grazing system for livestock production, evolved as …
About World Earth Day The World Earth Day, also known as the International Mother Earth Day, is celebrated every year on April 22 under which countries across the globe come together to create more awareness about the dire need to …
What’s the news? A February report commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme on the environmental challenges posed by noise, wildfires and the disruption of biological rhythms of plants, animals and ecological cycles became controversial on account of the mention …