by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 23, 2022 | Ecology and Environment
On January 13, 2022, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) released the 17th India State of Forest Report 2021 (ISFR-2021), prepared by the Forest Survey of India (FSI), which is an organisation under the (MoEFCC) and has been...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 20, 2021 | Ecology and Environment
In the Climate Summit held in Glasgow, Scotland in October-November, 2021, there was a debate on how the world’s wealthiest nations were disproportionately responsible for climate change and therefore they should compensate poorer nations for the damages caused by...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 15, 2021 | Ecology and Environment
A University of Arizona-led effort conducted a research to reconstruct Earth’s climate since the last ice age, which was about 24,000 years ago. The study highlighted the main drivers of climate change and underlined how the human-caused global warming over the last...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 3, 2021 | Ecology and Environment
On September 17, 2021, President Joe Biden of the US and the President of the European Commission, Von der Leyen, announced a joint agreement titled the ‘Global Methane Pledge’ at the Major Economies Forum (MEF) meet. The pledge is essentially an agreement to reduce...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 12, 2021 | Ecology and Environment
Four sites from India—two from Haryana (Sultanpur National Park and Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary) and two from Gujarat the Thol Lake Wildlife Sanctuary and the Wadhvana Wetland) have been added to the list of wetlands of international importance in August 2021. There...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 12, 2021 | Ecology and Environment
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first part of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), titled Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis on August 9, 2021. It was prepared by more than 750 scientists of Working Group-I, after reviewing...
