Grasslands play an important role in helping the big cats survive in their natural habitat and they are also indirectly dependent upon it. Elaborate in the light of importance of grasslands.

The Saurashtra region has with 106 reserved vidis (grasslands) maintained by the forest department and 434 non-reserved vidis which are controlled by other agencies. They make 20 percent of the total grassland cover in Gujarat.  Most of the vidis are ..

With solar and wind now being the cheapest sources of electricity, India needs to take charge and join industrialised nations in becoming net carbon neutral. Elaborate.

Climate change can be experienced across the world and time is running out for mankind to get to zero carbon emissions. France, UK have a legislation to become net carbon neutral by 2050, while The EU is also moving in ..

What is the link between mortality and pollution ? Comment on whether evidence provides a relation between the two.

The Union Environment Minister recently mentioned that no Indian studies have shown a direct correlation between mortality and pollution and International studies which estimate that thousands will die from causes linked to air pollution has caused a fear psychosis among ..

How the Energy Management Centre (EMC) of Kerala has achieved a status of energy positive campus?

The Energy Management Centre (EMC), an autonomous institution under the Kerala government has achieved the status of energy-positive campus. The ‘Global Status Report 2017: Towards a zero-emission, efficient, and resilient buildings and construction sector,’ published by the United Nations Environment ..

What are the objectives, features and significance of the recently announced GOBAR-Dhan initiative?

The government introduced new scheme Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan (GOBAR-DHAN) in the budget of 2018-19. The Scheme aims to manage and convert cattle dung and solid waste in farms to compost, bio-gas and bio-CNG. Objectives of the scheme: Keeping the ..

What is ozone hole? How the world has been successful in reducing the size of ozone hole?

Ozone is made up of three oxygen atoms. Ozone occurs naturally in small amounts. Manufactured chemicals such as chlorine, fluorine deplete the ozone layer. Every year during spring over Antarctica the atmospheric ozone is destroyed by chemical processes. This creates ..

Vulnerability is an essential element for defining disaster impacts and its threat to people. How and in what ways can vulnerability to disasters be characterized? Discuss different types of vulnerability with reference disasters.

Vulnerability is the measure of the proneness of people to succumbing under the aftermath harmful effect of disasters. In the absence of robust disaster preparedness the vulnerability increases. Characterizing the Vulnerability Geographical Vulnerability The geographical location may be in the ..

In respect of the ill effects of climate change, discuss about the recent IPCC report pointing to the impact of global temperatures.

In respect of the ill effects of climate change, discuss about the recent IPCC report pointing to the impact of global temperatures.  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a report on the ill effects of higher global ..