Environment & Ecology Current Affairs

India’s power infrastructure is emerging as a big threat to vultures

By assigning a monetary value to marine fish stocks (found in both coastal and inland within exclusive economic zones or EEZs), India is moving towards measuring the wealth contained in oceans.

Natural outbursts in hilly terrain are rising amid climate change

India-EU relations are stronger than ever due to increased strategic understanding and comfort. The India-EU Free Trade Agreement negotiations progressed with realism and pragmatism from both sides. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism aims to prevent carbon leakage and incentivize lower emissions. Both India and the EU seek to de-risk supply chains and build greater resilience. Cooperation will be strengthened through agreements and the India-EU Trade and Technology Council.

As climate-finance needs surge and the old global financial order comes under strain, the country could help build an inclusive, multipolar system for green development

During the conference in Mongolia, Minister Bhupender Yadav advocates for integrating predictive technologies, localised early-warning monitoring, and proactive land management policies

El Nino typically results in drier conditions across southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, and northern Brazil, and wetter conditions in the Horn of Africa, the southern U.S., Peru and Ecuador

India’s emerging agrivoltaics model enables farmers to grow crops beneath solar panels, offering a way to generate electricity while diversifying income. Vanita Bhatnagar speaks to farmers and agri-researchers to find out how high upfront costs, financing constraints, and uneven policy support are preventing more farmers from taking up projects beyond the pilots

On Great Nicobar Island, local Nicobarese communities are already opposing the Union government’s ₹91,000-crore mega-infrastructure project that involves building an airport, a transshipment port, and a tourism-led township

Calls for a significant increase in international funding to help developing countries adapt to climate change

Impeding elephant corridors is not a solution to human-animal conflicts, says SC; it directs Centre to conduct a national survey to remove obstructions from routes and ensure a ban on the use of fireballs and spikes to drive away elephants

India is counting trees when it should be restoring forests

The audit attributed the shortcomings to several factors, including inadequate convergence with other programmes, insufficient funding, deficiencies in planning and weak monitoring mechanisms

The amendment removes the "construction-free zone" wording and instead says that the banks of the Ganga and its tributaries and their floodplains shall be maintained to reduce pollution sources and pressures, and preserve their natural groundwater recharge functions through necessary measures.

Glacier slowdown has long-term implications for the Indus basin, where glacier melt contributes significantly to river flows during the summer. More melting may temporarily increase runoff, a phenomenon called peak water — but once glaciers lose a substantial fraction of their stored ice, the meltwater contributions are expected to drop

The population of Gyps vultures in India has declined by 99% over the last 20 years due to the use of veterinary painkiller drugs

The Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana targets 5,000 MW of installations on water bodies by 2030-31

The population of Gyps vultures in India has declined by 99% over the last 20 years due to the use of veterinary painkiller drugs

The scheme aspires to increase domestic production of CBG ten-fold and mobilise large-scale private investment.

What prompted the Supreme Court to dwell on this question? What are Ramsar sites? What does the law say about mining in Ramsar wetlands?