Topics for Prelims 2017-Environment (November 2016-February-2017)

  1. Kerala becomes open defecation free state
  2. MARRAKECH Action Plan — CoP 22
  3. NASA satellite spots stunning view of northern lights
  4. Scientists give new lease of life to endangered fish species
  5. Conservation of Loktak Lake
  6. IATA hopes India will join CORSIA soon
  7. UNESCO World Heritage Tag For Bhitarkanika National Park
  8. Paris agreement
  9. Candida Auris
  10. Montreal Protocol of the Vienna Convention
  11. Tamil Nadu gets world’s first salt-tolerant plant garden
  12. Brazilian free-tailed bat is the fastest flying animal: study
  13. Sessions at COP 22 Focus on Afforestation, Ecosystem and Climate Change
  14. Magmatic lake’ found; may help predict volcanic eruptions
  15. ‘272 products registered as geographical indication so far’
  16. Final notification on Eco-Sensitive Zone in Sanjay Gandhi National Park
  17. Cancel illegal salt pans in Sambhar Lake: NGT
  18. Majuli to be India’s first ever carbon neutral district:
  19. Kerala to seek Union government’s approval for using deer antlers in Ayurveda medicines
  20. Cabinet approves International Solar Alliance (ISA): Signing of the Framework Agreement
  21. Newly discovered snake has rainbow-hued head
  22. Amur falcons, which undertake one of the longest migrations, spotted in Kerala
  23. Agricultural Biosecurity
  24. Ammonia detected for first time in upper Troposphere
  25. What Marrakesh achieved, what’s ahead in climate change fight now
  26. Harmful Algal Blooms
  27. Organic farming on the Banks of Ganga River
  28. What are the different parts of a cyclone’s structure?
  29. Earthquake Prone Areas
  30. Koyna Deep Borehole programme
  31. LIGO India, Meant to Study Gravitational Waves, To Be Ready By ’24
  32. Silicon identified as ‘missing element’ in Earth’s core
  33. A sunspot with centre twice the size of Earth
  34. Fossil fuel formation linked to rise in atmosphere’s oxygen
  35. Ken-Betwa river-linking project faces new hurdle
  36. New Ginger species with medicinal properties found in Andamans
  37. New species of gibbon discovered in China:
  38. Second Commitment Period of Kyoto Protocol
  39. ‘Green Bonds’
  40. World Heritage sites & human interference
  41. West Bengal to give legal protection to Hilsa Fish:
  42. Scientists discover 163 new species in Greater Mekong region: WWF
  43. World heat shatters records in 2016 in new sign of global warming
  44. 2016 was warmest year on record: Study
  45. Huge Antarctic ice block set to break off: Scientists:
  46. Sea-surface temps during last interglacial period like modern temps
  47. Shailesh Nayak Committee on the Coastal Regulation Zone
  48. Primates facing extinction crisis: Study
  49. Glass-coated ‘manja’
  50. Zingiber
  51. Montane laughing thrushes are endemic to the Western Ghats
  52. Striped Hyenas bred at Visakhapatnam Zoo
  53. Endosulfan
  54. Three-spined stickleback fish
  55. Environmental Emergency
  56. Pilikula Biological Park stops admitting injured birds
  57. Swachh Bharat Survekshan
  58. Zealandia: 8th continent under New Zealand
  59. Enrolment of Non-Mechanical Propelled Vessels Under New Proposed Bill
  60. India to frame policy on synthetic biology:
  61. New birds species discovered in Nepal
  62. Rare leaf-nosed bats sighted after 37 yrs
  63. Great Himalayan National Park
  64. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush
  65. Ecologically crucial Wetlands
  66. Pitcher Plants
  67. Neurocalyx calycinus
  68. Plastic pyrolysis:
  69. Notifications on wetlands baffle green activists
  70. Greater flamingoes spotted in Himachal’s Pong wetlands
  71. ‘Conservation Status’ To Kappatagudda Tiger Reserve:
  72. World’s smallest porpoise vaquita marina close to extinction
  73. Ireland  became the world’s first country to stop investing in fossil fuels
  74. Endangered Irrawaddy dolphins species
  75. Corbett gets nod to kill poachers
  76. Olive Ridley turtles march to Gahiramatha for nesting
  77. World Wetlands Day celebrated at Bhoj Wetlands, Bhopal
  78. India’s first floating elementary school:
  79. Clouded leopard
  80. Record olive ridley nesting baffles wildlife experts:
  81. Critically Endangered Impatiens Plant Species
  82. Second capital of Himachal Pradesh
  83. Hope Island
  84. Anthropocene, International Commission on Stratigraphy, Holocene
  85. India’s only volcano active again
  86. Bangladesh pushes on with Rohingya island plan
  87. Thai cops seize record three tonnes of pangolin scales:
  88. Hundreds of Pilot Whales Returned to the Water:
  89. Seven new species of night frogs from India:
  90. Green Building Performance Monitoring Platform -‘Arc’ Adopted by IGIA

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