14 dead sperm whales found beached on Australian island #GS-03 Environment and Ecology For Prelims About Sperm Whales: Sperm whale, (Physeter catodon), also called cachalot is the largest of the toothed whales. It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of […]
Arth Ganga Context: Asok Kumar, the Director General of the National Mission for Clean Ganga, spoke about the Arth Ganga model during his virtual keynote address to the Stockholm World Water Week 2022 recently. Background: During the first National Ganga Council meeting in Kanpur in […]
Mishap at Meghalaya coal mine leaves one dead, another hurt For Prelims About Rathole mining: Rat-hole mining is a dangerous technique involving digging narrow vertical tunnels into the earth to extract coal. It is done by digging deep vertical shafts with narrow horizontal tunnels of […]
What is causing Arctic warming? For Prelims Locations of Arctic Region in News Barents Sea and Kara Sea which are connected by Kara strait. Laptev Sea and Kara Sea are separated by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. About Arctic Region: The Arctic region is the north […]
Status of Groundwater The Dynamic Ground Water Resources of the country are being periodically assessed jointly by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and State Governments. As per the 2020 assessment, Annual Extractable Ground Water Resource and Annual Ground Water Extraction for all uses are […]
Cabinet nod for climate pledges For Mains Pledges India has made: Five commitments, or Panchamrit: India will increase its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW (gigawatt) by 2030. will meet 50% of its energy requirements from “renewable energy” by 2030. will reduce the total projected […]