Hot Ocean Water Led To Mass Extinction: Study

Environment

Source : www.thehindu.com  Date : 2018-12-09 OPINION Relevant for: Environment & Disaster Management Topic: Environmental Degradation – GHGs, Ozone Depletion & Climate Change Scientists think they’ve figured out the falling dominoes that led to the earth’s largest mass extinction and worry that human-caused climate change puts the planet on a vaguely similar path. Some 250 million…

384 Tigers Killed In Last 10 Years

Environment

Source : www.thehindu.com  Date : 2018-12-08 OPINION Relevant for: Environment & Disaster Management Topic: Environmental Degradation – Wildlife related issues As many as 384 tigers have been killed by poachers in India in the last 10 years, according to the reply to a question under the Right to Information. Between 2008 and 2018 (till November), 961…

Still On The Last Chance Saloon

Environment

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2018-12-07 OPINION Relevant for: Environment & Disaster Management Topic: Environmental Conservation, Sustainable Development & EIA The world is in deep trouble. Average global temperatures have crossed a degree Celsius above preindustrial levels and such concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (410 ppm) has never been seen by humans before. The…

Air Pollution Cause Of 1 In 8 Deaths

Environment

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2018-12-07 OPINION Relevant for: Environment & Disaster Management Topic: Environmental Pollution – Air, Water, Soil & E-waste India, with 18% of the world’s population, has a disproportionately high 26% of the global premature deaths and disease burden due to air pollution. Moreover, one in eight deaths in India was attributable to…

Accounting Methods Of Climate Fund Questioned

Environment

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2018-12-05 OPINION Relevant for: Environment & Disaster Management Topic: Environmental Conservation, Sustainable Development & EIA Charting the way:Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan at the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland, on Tuesday.AFP The Finance Ministry has issued a ‘discussion paper’ that has criticised the accounting methods used by developed countries to report how…