Many animals and plants unique to the world’s most scenic natural places face extinction if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, according to a new study published in the journal Biological Conservation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Climate change will negatively affect most native ...

Uttarakhand has witnessed over 1,000 incidents of forest fire over the last six months, including 45 in the last 24 hours alone, and has reached out to the Centre for helicopters and personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Since the start ...

India has pushed back deadlines for coal-fired power plants to adopt new emission norms by up to three years, and allowed utilities that miss the new target to continue operating after paying a penalty. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 India had initially set a 2017 deadline for thermal power ...

The much-vaunted inter-state tiger translocation drive ended in a whimper after Sundari, the four-and-half year-old tigress relocated from Madhya Pradesh in 2018 to Satkoisa tiger reserve in Odisha’s Angul district was sent back to the Kanha reserve in Madhya Pradesh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz ...

Six tigers have been unaccounted for since March 2020 in the Ranthambore tiger sanctuary, Rajasthan. However, State forest officials are not willing to label them “missing” and denied reports that they may have been poached. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The National Tiger Conservation ...

According to the report from IQ Air, Delhi remained the most polluted capital city in the world but India, on the whole, had improved its average annual PM 2.5 (particulate matter) levels higher in 2020 than in 2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 IQ Air is a Swiss air quality technology ...

World Energy Transitions Outlook report, brought out by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says that the COVID-19 crisis offers an unexpected opportunity for countries across the world to decouple their economies from fossil fuels and accelerate the shift to renewable energy ...

The Supreme Court swooped-in to intervene on behalf of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustards over the birds falling dead after colliding with power lines running through their dwindling natural habitats in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Scientific Name: ...

Members who were part of the Commission for Air Quality Management said they were taken aback by the sudden dissolution of the body, constituted last October and via an ordinance. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The commission was headed by M.M. Kutty, a former Secretary in the Ministry of ...

The ‘gregarious flowering of bamboo’ inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) and the nearby Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and Gudalur forest division in Tamil Nadu may pose a threat to wildlife in the Nilgiri biosphere, a major tiger and elephant habitat. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 ...