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• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 25, Nov 2021

In News- Recently, Scientists from the Bombay Natural History Society published a research paper on the forgotten butterflies of Matheran in the community peer-reviewed ‘Biodiversity Data Journal’.Scientists found 140 rare species of 

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 23, Nov 2021

The Narendra Modi government’s National Hydrogen Mission is kick-starting with the Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) floating a global tender to set up green Hydrogen generation units at two of its big refineries in North India. IOCL is India’s largest commercial und

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 23, Nov 2021

Developed countries have an extremely poor track record on climate action. In keeping with this trend, the recently declared enhanced pledges for climate action, including declarations of net-zero emissions by 2050, also fall woefully short of what is required to ensure the safety of

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Nov 2021

Delhi’s Chief Minister has announced a six-point action plan to completely clean the Yamuna by 2025.Timelines are set for every small aspect of the project and they will be revisited every 15 to 30 days to ensure that it is completed on time.Action planNew sewage trea

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 17, Nov 2021

Reference News:Among the winners of this year’s Padma awards is Rahibai Popere, popularly known as Seedmother, from Akole taluka of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.Her Padma Shri is a recognition of her work that has helped save hundreds of landr

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 16, Nov 2021

Why in News?Among the winners of this year’s Padma awards is Rahibai Popere, popularly known as Seedmother, from Akole taluka of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.Her Padma Shri is a recognition of her work that has helped save hundreds of landrace

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 13, Nov 2021

Why in News?       A lot of factors were held responsible for bringing around green crackers.In the last couple of years, major legal battles have been fought for complete ban on the traditional firecrackers which have intensely polluted the en

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 12, Nov 2021

Reference News:In what has become a repeat occurrence in the city, a layer of froth was seen floating over parts of the Yamuna river near Kalindi Kunj recently, with Chhath devotees standing in toxic foam-laden water to offer prayers.The froth is a sign

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 12, Nov 2021

Reference News:The 17th edition of the Climate Change Performance Index was released recently.About CCPI:It is compiled by Germanwatch, the New Climate Institute, and the Climate Action Network.It monitors climate mitigation progress of 60 countries and t

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 11, Nov 2021

Reference News:Impact of agricultural expansion on global deforestation almost 90%, says FRA remote-sensing survey.More than half of global forests (52.3 per cent) has been converted to croplandAnother 37.5 per cent was lost to livestock grazing between 2000 and 2018Around 5