by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 29, 2020 | Ecology and Environment
On October 10, 2020 (the world migratory bird day, 2020) organised Biodiversity by the Bay’ campaign, initiated by ministry of Mumbai’s Magic, a citizens group. On this occasion a webinar, titled ‘The Flight of the Pink—How can Mumbai Protect the Lesser Flamingos’ was...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 18, 2020 | Ecology and Environment
India is planning a ‘decadal forecast’ system along the lines of the United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office to ensure better predictability in the climate time scale. The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) made this announcement at the sidelines of the 6th...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 18, 2020 | Ecology and Environment
It was reported in February 2020 that researchers found a premolar tooth of about 6 cm width and 7 cm length at Kutch, Gujarat which belonged to an extinct ancient elephant called Deinotherium indicum. The finding increases our understanding of the variations in...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 31, 2020 | Ecology and Environment
The Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) Council, on May 6, 2019, launched a rating tool, ‘GRIHA for Existing Day Schools’, to evaluate the environmental performance of schools across India. This green rating tool would evaluate performance and...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 15, 2020 | Ecology and Environment
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted in 2005 to improve the rural infrastructure, augment land and water resources, and strengthen the livelihood resource base of the rural poor. It envisioned to provide at least one hundred...
by Pradeep Gautam | Jun 30, 2020 | Ecology and Environment
The high-level committee formed by the centre had recommended declaring identified geographical areas falling under the six states as Ecologically Sensitive Areas. Six states, through which the Western Ghats pass, have asked the Centre to expedite the process...
