Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto's image of a bird at the US-Mexico border wall has won a prestigious photo contest. Mr Prieto was named the grand prize winner of the Bird Photographer of the Year competition after his image was selected from 22,000 entries. His winn…
Showing posts with label ENVIRONMENT & NATURE. Show all posts
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Hurun Future Unicorn List 2021.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates9/04/2021 11:30:00 PMENVIRONMENT & NATURE, SOCIAL & CULTURAL
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The Hurun Research Institute has released the Hurun Future Unicorn List 2021, a ranking of start-ups founded in the 2000s. As per the report, number of Unicorns in USA and China is at 396 and 277 respectively while India follows at number three with 51 unicorns. UK is numbe…
Air pollution shortens life expectancy in India.
Air pollution is likely to reduce the life expectancy of about 40% of Indians by more than nine years, according to a report released by a U.S. research group on Wednesday. More than 480 million people living in the vast swathes of central, eastern and northern India, includ…
New island created by underwater volcano in Japan.
An underwater volcano has erupted in Japan, creating a new tiny island. The new island is around one kilometre in diameter, and is located near to the volcanic island Iwo Jima, about 1.2 kilometres south of Tokyo. It was spotted by the Japan Coast Guard after a nearby underw…
World's Most Polluted Cities - 2020.
According to a report prepared by HouseFresh, a British company, Ghaziabad was the second most polluted city in the world in 2020. As per the report, Bangladesh was the most polluted country in the world in 2020. The report has stated that after Bangladesh, Pakistan, India …
July was Earth’s hottest month on record.
July was the hottest month globally ever recorded, a US scientific agency said Friday (13), in the latest data to sound the alarm about the climate crisis. July is typically the world's warmest month of the year, but July 2021 outdid itself as the hottest July and month …
Indonesia's most active Mount Merapi in New Eruption.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates8/17/2021 09:55:00 AMENVIRONMENT & NATURE, SOCIAL & CULTURAL
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Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted Monday (16) with its biggest lava flow in months, sending a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing 3.5 kilometers (more than 2 miles) down its slopes on the densely populated island of Java. The rumbling sound could be heard seve…
Three volcanoes are erupting at the same time in Alaska.
The simultaneous eruptions have been going on for more than a week but do not currently pose a threat to nearby communities or air travel. Along a remote, roughly 800-mile stretch of Alaska's Aleutian island chain, three volcanoes are erupting at the same time, with at l…
New UN report on climate change.
The U.N.-appointed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a new report Monday summarizing the latest authoritative scientific information about global warming. Here are five important takeaways. BLAMING HUMANS The report says almost all of the warming that has oc…
Thailand bans coral-damaging sunscreens in marine parks.
Thailand has banned sunscreens containing chemicals that damage coral from all of its marine national parks. Concerns are growing that lotions tourists use for sun protection are harming slow-growing corals. The Thai Department of Conservation said four ingredients commonly f…
Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina, in the United States.
A fish with human-like teeth has been caught in the United States. A photo of the fish was shared on Facebook this week by Jennette's Pier, a fishing destination in Nag's Head, North Carolina. It was identified as a sheepshead fish, which has several rows of molars fo…
Greenland’s vast ice enough ice melted on single day to cover Florida in two inches of water.
Greenland’s vast ice sheet is undergoing a surge in melting, with the amount of ice vanishing in a single day this week enough to cover the whole of Florida in two inches of water, researchers have found. The deluge of melting has reached deep into Greenland’s enormous icy i…
The U.N. General Assembly has approved its first-ever resolution on vision.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates7/26/2021 11:30:00 PMENVIRONMENT & NATURE, SOCIAL & CULTURAL
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The U.N. General Assembly has approved its first-ever resolution on vision. It calls on the assembly’s 193 member nations to ensure access to eye care for everyone in their countries, which would contribute to a global effort to help at least 1.1 billion people with vision …
Hayleys Fabric cuts carbon footprint by 15% with Sri Lanka’s largest solar roof.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates7/23/2021 11:30:00 PMENVIRONMENT & NATURE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, SRI LANKA
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Contributes 6,241,500kWh of power per annum to the National grid Largest single rooftop solar installation in Sri Lanka 9,000 solar panels installed across 18,000 square metre rooftop Carbon footprint reduced by 4,065.45 tCO2. Leading textile manufacturer, Hayleys Fabric furthe…
Biodegradable lunch sheets compulsory from August 01.
The Environment Ministry has made the use of biodegradable lunch sheets compulsory from August 1, Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said. Addressing the media, he said biodegradable lunch sheets should be made available in shops from the said date. Non-perishable lunch …
EU proposes world’s 01st carbon border tax for import.
The European Commission on Wednesday 14 July 2021 put forward plans for the world’s first "carbon border tax" on imports of carbon-intensive goods, including steel, cement, fertilisers and aluminium, as part of a programme to meet its new climate target. The border…
Human-wildlife conflict one of the greatest threats to wildlife species - WWF and UNEP report.
Conflict between people and animals, from China’s famed wandering elephants raiding farms for food and water to wolves preying on cattle in Idaho is one of the main threats to the long-term survival of some of the world’s most emblematic species, warns a new report from WWF…
China announced that it had removed giant pandas from its endangered list.
According to an article posted on the Ministry of Ecology and Environment's website, the population of giant pandas living in the wild in China had risen to 1,864 by 2013, up from 1,596 in 2003. The head of the ministry's Department of Nature and Ecology Conservation…
The 130-Degree Fahrenheit Reading in Death Valley Ties for the Hottest Temperature Ever Reliably Recorded.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates7/11/2021 11:59:00 PMENVIRONMENT & NATURE, SOCIAL & CULTURAL
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There’s one thing that many Americans can affirm right now: It’s freaking hot. In case you still had any doubts, Death Valley, California—the hottest, driest, and lowest place in the country—experienced a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius) on Frida…
Hemantha Withanage elected as new chair of Friends of the Earth International.
Hemantha Withanage, Executive Director of the Centre for Environmental Justice in Sri Lanka has been elected as the chair of Friends of the Earth International. Hemantha follows Karin Nansen of Uruguay, whose two terms as chair ended in June 2021. A science graduate from the…
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