Contents1 What is the News?2 What are the key findings of the study?2.1 Increase in Tropical Cyclones3 Opposite Impact on the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea What is the News? A study has been published in the Science Advances estimating the impact of Climate Change on Cyclones. What are the key findings of… Continue reading Climate change is real: Strong cyclones to reduce in Bay of Bengal, rise in Arabian Sea by 2050, says study
Category: Factly: Environment
This category contains all Current Affairs Factly Articles for Prelims, related to the Environment. You can find all relevant Environment related updates on this page. This page is specifically useful for UPSC Prelims exam.
Fulfilling CoP26 promises can limit global warming to 2°C: Study
What is the News? According to a study, Global warming can be limited to 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels if all the conditional and unconditional pledges to the Paris Agreement are implemented in full and on time. What is the study about? The study has analyzed 154 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and 76 long-term… Continue reading Fulfilling CoP26 promises can limit global warming to 2°C: Study
Explained: Can climate change be solved by pricing carbon?
Contents1 What is the News?2 What are the different approaches adopted by countries to address climate change?3 What is the Carbon Pricing Approach?4 What is the difference between the Social Cost of Carbon and Carbon Pricing? What is the News? Pennsylvania has become the first major fossil fuel-producing state in the US to adopt a… Continue reading Explained: Can climate change be solved by pricing carbon?
Seafloor spreading that creates crust slowed 35%, growing mountains may be driving it: Study
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Sea Floor Spreading?3 How did the researchers find out the seafloor spreading rate?4 What did the researchers find out?5 Why has the sea floor’s spreading rate slowed down? What is the News? According to a study that analyzed data from the last 19 million years, seafloor spreading rates… Continue reading Seafloor spreading that creates crust slowed 35%, growing mountains may be driving it: Study
Explained: What constitutes ‘noise’, and how can noise pollution harm you?
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Noise?3 What do The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 say?4 What is the acceptable level of noise?5 What are the rules around the use of loudspeakers?6 What is the impact of noise pollution on Health? What is the News? A political party in Maharashtra has raised… Continue reading Explained: What constitutes ‘noise’, and how can noise pollution harm you?
Prunus dinabandhuana: New plant species of ‘Cherry Blossom’ found in Manipur
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Cherry Blossom?3 About Prunus dinabandhuana4 Why was this plant species named after Scientist Dr Dinabandhu Sahoo? What is the News? Scientists from Manipur have found a new plant species of ‘Cherry Blossom’. They have named the plant species as ‘Prunus dinabandhuana’ as a mark of respect and for… Continue reading Prunus dinabandhuana: New plant species of ‘Cherry Blossom’ found in Manipur
Expert body needed on Man-Animal Conflict: Panel
Contents1 What is the News?2 What are the suggestions given by the committee?3 Standing Committee of the State Board for Wild Life(SBWL) 4 On Human-Animal Conflict What is the News? The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment, Forests and Climate Change has submitted its report on the proposed Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021. The Bill seeks to… Continue reading Expert body needed on Man-Animal Conflict: Panel
What is the Blue Blob?
What is the News? According to a study, the Blue blob may have helped temporarily stall the melting of Arctic sea ice. However, the study has also stated that the effects of climate change will catch up to the massive ice chunks if temperatures are not kept in check. What is Blue Bob? It is… Continue reading What is the Blue Blob?
Scientists discover new eel species from Kerala, Bengal
What is the News? A group of Indian scientists have discovered a new species of eel named “Ariosoma indicum” from the Kalamukku and Digha Mohana fishing harbours in Kerala and West Bengal respectively. What is Ariosoma indicum? Ariosoma Indicum is an eel species that belongs to the Congrid eels group. The term Indicum means that… Continue reading Scientists discover new eel species from Kerala, Bengal
Sea may inundate many cities by 2050
What is the News? According to a study conducted by a consulting firm RMSI, a significant number of population, property and infrastructure in parts of Chennai, Kochi, Visakhapatnam, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai will be underwater due to rising sea levels by the year 2050. What is the study about? A study was conducted by RMSI,… Continue reading Sea may inundate many cities by 2050
