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