Mains Specials

Bio–Diversity And Environment

General Studies Paper III

1 Environmental Flows of Ganga

2 Eastern Ghats Face Loss of Forest Cover, Endemic Plants

3 Global Geopark Network Status

4 eDNA

5 Kerala Floods and the Fragile Ecosystem of Western Ghats

6 Impact of Sand Mining and Alternatives to Sand

7 Notification on Clean Fuel

8 Law to Define a River’s Edge

9 e-Mobility Programme

10 SC Seeks Details of Green Funds

11 Joint Research Projects for Clean Water, Energy

12 Tiger Extinction Risk

13 Questions in Parliament on Plastics

14 Development of Solar Cities

15 Drought in Maharashtra

16 Role of Water & Ecological Systems in Drought Resilience

17 New Trend in Floods

18 Classifications of Disasters

19 Apps for Disaster Info

20 National Disaster Risk Index

21 Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project

22 Formaldehyde in Fish

23 Clean Air is a Human Right: WHO

24 Biomass Pellets

25 Cleaning the Ganga

26 SATAT Initiative to Promote Compressed Bio-Gas

27 WAYU: New Device to Tackle Pollution

28 CFC-11 in Atmosphere

29 Shale Oil or Gas Extraction by Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)

30 Herbicide Glyphosate

31 Plastic Road Surfacing

32 Protecting Bay of Bengal

33 Uranium Contamination of Water

34 Iron Ore Mining Leases in Goa

35 National Aquifer Mapping Programme (NAQUIM)

36 Dust Mitigation Plan

37 Ambient Air Quality Standards in India

38 Moss that can Remove Lead from Water

39 Global E-waste Monitor 2017

40 Soil Crisis in India

41 Sensor Network to Map and Predict Pollution, Effluents in Godavari

42 Black Carbon

43 Chemicals in Firecrackers

44 Bharat Stage Norms

45 National Air Quality Index (AQI)

46 Methanol as Cooking Fuel

47 Moss : A Cheap Pollution Monitor

48 Furnace Oil and Pet Coke

49 Bio-CNG

50 Carbon Capture Utilization Storage (CCUS)

51 Microbeads

52 Odisha Beach is Asia’s first to get ‘Blue Flag’ Tag

53 Just Six Sub-species of Tiges Remain

54 Eight Captive-Reared Vultures to be released with Tracking Devices

55 Genes of Machhli to be Mapped

56 Agarwood Facing Extinction

57 Kulik Bird Sanctuary

58 Woolly Mammoths to be brought from the Dead

59 Gene Banks of Wild Animals

60 Ocean’s Dead Zones

61 Biodiversity of Manipur’s Loktak Lake under Threat

62 Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve (KBR)

63 First Inter-State Tiger Translocation Project

64 Nilgiri Hills

65 World’s Smallest Land Fern in Western Ghats

66 Illegal Wildlife Trade Restrictions Recognised

67 Conservation of Animals: Smaller Species are Neglected Lot

68 Orang Tiger Reserve

69 Three New Sites Recognised as Biodiversity Hotspots in Goa

70 Nine more Bird, Biodiversity Areas in Kerala

71 SECURE Himalaya

72 National Wildlife Action Plan

73 Floating Treatment Wetland

74 Celebration of World Wetlands Day at Deepor Beel in Assam

75 Climate Change Threatens Nilgiri Tahr

76 Survival Threat to Sher Mahi Fish

77 Rise in Population of Asiatic Lions

78 Snow Leopard

79 Olive Ridley Sea Turtle

80 Sawfish

81 Flamingo

82 Chiru Goat

83 Nilgiri Marten

84 Zygaenid

85 New Species of the Genus Nasikabatrachus

86 A New Snake found in Western Ghats

87 New Species of Large Gecko Discovered from Eastern Ghats

88 New Ant Species Discovered in the Western Ghats

89 New Night Frog Species

90 Rare Sub-species of Hog Deer

91 Two New Gecko Species Discovered

92 Black-necked Cranes

93 Hornbill Watch Initiative

94 Red Data Book

95 Discovery of Nine Plants in Western Ghats

96 New Plant Species Found in Western Ghats

97 Gandheli Rediscovered

98 Gleadovia konyakianorum

99 Retrotransposons

100 Musa paramjitiana

101 Sunderbans is Losing its Mangrove Forest

102 Cobra Lily

103 Bihar’s Shahi Litchi gets GI Tag

104 GI Tag for Alphonso Mango from Konkan

105 Nilambur Teak

106 Kirunji Flowers Bloom

Sustainable Development

1 India Bans 18 Pesticides
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