KERALA FORESTS HOME TO NEW SPIDER SPECIES

Environment

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-04-06 KERALA FORESTS HOME TO NEW SPIDER SPECIES Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Wildlife Related Issues Habrocestum longispinum A group of jumping spiders that mostly occur in Eurasia and Africa, has been spotted for the first time in Ernakulam’s Illithodu forests by arachnologists from Kochi’s Sacred Heart…

FOR A HEALTHY PLANET

Environment, Environment & Disaster Management

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-21 FOR A HEALTHY PLANET Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Degradation – GHGs, Ozone Depletion and Climate Change Last week in Nairobi, governments welcomed the Global Environment Outlook 6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People (GEO-6) report. GEO-6 argues that in a business-as-usual scenario, the world will exhaust its energy-related carbon…

FUTURE-PROOFING CITIES

Environment

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-19 FUTURE-PROOFING CITIES Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Degradation – GHGs, Ozone Depletion and Climate Change The stark statistics jump out at anyone trying to understand why resilient infrastructure is so important in a world that is urbanising at an unprecedented pace, not least here in India. Already around…

A FRESH WARNING: WHAT GEO-6 MEANS FOR INDIA

Environment

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-16 A FRESH WARNING: WHAT GEO-6 MEANS FOR INDIA Relevant for: Environment | Topic: Environmental Degradation – GHGs, Ozone Depletion and Climate Change The sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook from the UN Environment Programme has come as another stark warning: the world is unsustainably extracting resources and producing…