New Zealand’s government will decide next week if a climate emergency should be declared in the country or not. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In 2019, the Oxford dictionaries declared “climate emergency” to be the word of the year, a word that reflects “the ethos, mood, or ...

Recently, Karnataka has announced that it would declassify 6.64 lakh hectares (nearly 67%) of the 9.94 lakh hectares of deemed forests in the state and hand it over to Revenue authorities. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points While the concept of deemed forests has not been clearly ...

The isolated UK Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha, which is home to the world’s most remote human settlement, declared the largest fully protected marine reserves in the Atlantic Ocean at 687,000 square kilometres. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This will close over 90 ...

As 28-year-old filmmaker, Varchasva Dhunta, steered his camera through a vast crowd cheering “Jungle jyaada jaroori hai” (forest is more important), several demonstrators hugged the Thano forest trees along Dehradun’s Jolly Grant Airport Road, enacting the famous “Chipko Aandolan.” Daily ...

The air quality in Delhi continues to remain in 'severe' category. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the city's air quality index was recorded 487 at 11 A.M. An Air Quality Index between 201 and 300 is considered poor, 301 to 400 very poor and 401 to 500 severe. Daily Current ...

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that India is on the way forward towards achieving its commitments done at the Paris agreement and the country is acting on its Nationally Determined Contributions(NDC’s). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

Union Minister of Science and Technology released the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) Report on "Estimating the economic benefits of Investment in Monsoon Mission and High Performance Computing (HPC) Facilities". “ Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A total ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said that the country will achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  Japan had come under pressure to strengthen its climate commitments after initially saying that it would achieve an 80% reduction ...

As per a new report released by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), some areas in the UK could experience greater levels of air pollution due to large numbers of people working from home due to the pandemic this winter season. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points During ...

Declaring the environmental clearance (EC) granted to the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation system in Telangana as ex post facto (retroactive, after it is done) and illegal, the National Green Tribunal has directed the Telangana government to stop all work, except the drinking water component of the ...