Climate Environment and Science

From 30 million cases to zero: China is certified malaria-free by WHO Geneva, 01st July 2021. Following a 70-year effort, China has been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO – a notable feat for a country that reported 30 million cases of the disease annually in the 1940s. “Today we …

PM Modi to address the lead event on the occasion of International Yoga Day tomorrow The 7th International Day of Yoga will be observed tomorrow. The main theme of International Day of Yoga, 2021 is – Yoga for Wellness, which is aligned to the current pre-occupations. International Day of Yoga: …

Steps were taken by the Government to ensure drug availability for treatment of Mucormycosis A sudden increase in the demand has been observed in some States for Amphotericin-B, which is being actively prescribed by the physicians to the patients suffering from Mucormycosis, which has been seen as a post COVID …

Nitrogen pollution: Humanity’s failure New Delhi, Jun 01: Humanity’s failure to stop nitrogen pollution could limit the safe operating margin for many other issues facing our planet earth, say, scientists. This latest finding was reported by Professor Johan Rockstrom, former director of the Stockholm resilience centre at the Stockholm University, …

Abha Tewary / Rajeev Kumar Mehajan / Mahaveer Golechha / Dileep Mavalankar New Delhi, May 26th: There is very high confidence within the scientific community that the “health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change”. IPCC’s ‘Special Report on Global Warming …

Cebu City (Philippines) 26 March 2021 – Waste pickers from Barangay Inayawan, Cebu City, demand inclusion into the city’s solid waste management system by offering to accept and manage the recyclables collected daily prior to disposal in a private landfill. All types of waste generated daily, however, goes to the …

New Delhi, Mar 02 (India Science Wire): India is the third-largest producer of e-waste and has generated 3.23 MMT E-waste in 2019 alone. Paltry e-waste management makes the situation even more challenging.  Notably, e-waste contains several toxic materials such as lead, cadmium, chromium, brominated flame retardants, or polychlorinated biphenyls. Therefore, …

High spatial accuracy geospatial data finer than 1m horizontally and 3m vertically can now be acquired and owned only by Indian entities and stored in servers physically located in India Government agencies, and others will collaborate and work towards open-linked geospatial data.

analysis shows that organic speciation of PM2.5 identified 3 majorregional air corridors from which heavy metals and industrial pollutants mix with the city’s air

Over 85 per cent of districts in Uttarakhand, which are home to over nine crore people, are hotspots of extreme floods and its associated events, according to an independent analysis released today by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).

The study explains that complex chemical reactions involving Hydrochloric Acid (HCl), which is directly emitted in the atmosphere from plastic contained waste burning and few industrial processes, is primarily responsible for high PM2.5 chloride level.

New project of DBT-NIAB to upscale subsistence-level goat production to a viable, profitable model New Delhi, Jan 12:  Goat husbandry in India is essentially an endeavor of millions of small holders who rear animals on crop-residues and common property resources. Goats play a significant role in providing supplementary income and …

New Delhi, 11th December 2020. On the completion of five years of the Paris Agreement, environmental activist Greta Thunberg has said that ‘We are speeding in the wrong direction’ on the climate crisis. Greta Thunberg has published a 3-minute video about what gives her hope in the climate crisis fight. …

Once a lifetime opportunity:  About 30 minutes after the local sunset, in the southwestern direction, low in the sky, two giant gas plants, Saturn and Jupiter will appear so close that we will not be able to distinguish them apart. The last time Jupiter and Saturn were this near was …

India is among the most vulnerable countries when it comes to climate change impacts with an average of 2,925 deaths annually due to extreme weather events. These events are estimated to cost the country $14bn in economic losses.

Global water consumption will increase to ≈3,800 km3/ year by 2025 GUWAHATI, 8 December 2020: It is estimated that global water consumption will increase by ≈3,800 km3/yr by 2025, and much of this water will have to be obtained from natural systems. Scientists from across the globe have been trying …

New Delhi, Dec 05: In a major boost to efforts to help meet the growing need for high-quality hybrid rice seeds, a team of Hyderabad-based researchers has developed a new method to assess the genetic quality of the seeds that are used in their production. How is a hybrid seed …

India: One of the world’s most water-stressed countries New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 December 2020: India is among the world’s most water-stressed countries, today. Per capita water available is set to decline to 1465 cubic meters by 2025 from 1544 cubic meters in 2011, according to a 2018 Niti Aayog study. …

New Delhi, Nov 25: In a significant boost in efforts to find better anti-cancer drugs, a team of Indian scientists has found a way to control the expression of a cancer-inducing gene called cancer myelocytomatosis (c-myc), using a synthetic derivative of Curcumin obtained from Turmeric. In every organism, there are …

New Delhi, 23rd November 2020. Industrial slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has not curbed record levels of greenhouse gases which are trapping heat in the atmosphere, increasing temperatures and driving more extreme weather, ice melt, sea-level rise and ocean acidification, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The lockdown …