The report by a UN body on environment has made a strong pitch for vegetarianism.
Global warming cannot be tackled by cutting fossil fuel emissions alone, the UN body on climate change (IPCC) warned in a special report, adding that changing climate was threatening the world's food production and calling for vegetarian food habits as well as sustainable farm practices
Average land temperature has already crossed a redline mentioned in the Paris Agreement according to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Climate Change and Land report's summary for policy makers that also warned that measures to tackle global warming will be found wanting unless they focus on land-use, agriculture, and food.
Average land temperature has increased by 1.53 degree C since the pre-industrial period and the global mean temperature, which includes land and ocean, is higher by 0.87 degree C, according to the summary of the IPCC report released in Geneva.
9-Year-Old Now Face Of Manipur Green Mission
A nine-year-old Manipuri girl, Valentina Elangbam who shed copious tears after two trees she planted were cut down has been named brand ambassador of the chief minister's Green Manipur Mission.
The chief minister of the state, N Biren Singh and H Balkrishna, director, public relations department, released an order appointing her ambassador of the green mission
The chief minister's Green Manipur Mission is a move to restore greenery across Manipur.
Less Plastic, More Jute Bags At Van Mahotsav
Polythene bags, which are used to grow saplings from nurseries, will this year see a reduction in their numbers, for more eco-friendly jute bags during the government's Van Mahotsav drive that will be launched on 09th august,2019.
The drive will be launched by Kailash Gahlot, forest minister of Delhi, from Isapur forest in west Delhi. More than 1,000 schools, both government and government-aided, would be participating in the initiative.
Forest officials said some saplings will still come wrapped in plastic cover. However, these polythene pouches will be collected and sent to waste-to-energy plants for disposing them in an environment-friendly manner.
The forest department and other greening agencies would be undertaking their mass plantation drive during which more than 3.1 lakh saplings would be planted across 128 locations. Citizens and RWAs can collect free saplings from 14 forest department nurseries across Delhi.
Aug 08, 2019
Rapid and disturbing increase in deforestation across Amazon jungle in Brazil
New data from the Brazilian space institute published point to a surge in deforestation in the Amazon, fuelling fears that President Jair Bolsonaro's pro-agrobusiness policies will accelerate deforestation.
Figures of the National Institute for Space Research, a federal agency, show that more forest was lost between May and July in 2019 than during the same period in 2018, 2017 and 2016.
In July,2019 alone, the rainforest lost 2,254 square kilometres of vegetation, between three and five times the surfaces lost the same month in the past four years.
This is the biggest surge in deforestation rates since the institute adopted its current methodology in 2014.
Brazil contains about 60% of the Amazon rainforest, a key regulator in the planet's living systems. Its trees take in as much as 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year and release 20% of the planet's oxygen.
Ancient Bird That Stood a Metre Tall
Scientists have discovered fossils of the world's largest parrot, standing up to one metre tall and weighing 7kg with a massive beak able to crack most food sources.
The new bird, described in the journal Biology Letters, has been named 'Heracles Inexpectatus' to reflect its Herculean myth-like size and strength - and the unexpected nature of the discovery.
New Zealand is well known for its giant birds.
The fossil is about the size of the giant 'dodo' pigeon of the Mascarenes and twice the size of the critically endangered flightless
New Zealand kakapo, was previously the largest known parrot.
The new parrot was found in fossils up to 19 million years old from near St. Bathans in Central Otago, New Zealand, in an area well known for a rich assemblage of fossil birds from the Miocene period.
Aug 05, 2019
 Goa govt to push for eco-sensitive zones
The Goa government will write to the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF&CC) to designate low-lying coastal lands and mudflats ,known as "khazans," as ecosensitive zones, under the Coastal Zone Management Plan.
All khazans, aquaculture ponds and salt pans should be demarcated and categorised as eco-sensitive zones.
The Coastal Zone Management Plan is a mandatory requirement under the CRZ (Coastal Regulation Zone) notification with areas within 200 metres from the point of the highest water level during the yearly spring tide designated as eco-sensitive and earmarked as "no development" zones.
Lands falling with 500 metres of the high tide line are earmarked as "regulated."
In plantation campaign, govt aims at 3 lakh plants in a day
The Delhi government will conduct its mega plantation drive for this year on August 9, 2019 and has aimed to plant over 300,000 tree saplings and shrubs across the national capital.
Scarcity of land has forced the forest department to reduce the overall plantation target of 2019 to 2.4 million from 2018's 3.2 million.
Isapur village near southwest Delhi's Najafgarh has been identified as the main site for the mass drive to be launched by environment minister Kailash Gahlot.
Aug 04, 2019
Tigers in India face lurking threat from virus
A potential virus — Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) — that can be transmitted from CDV-infected dogs living in and around wildlife sanctuaries has started to raise concern among wildlife biologists.
Canine distemper is a contagious and serious disease caused by a virus that attacks the respiratory, gastrointestinal and nervous systems of puppies and dogs.
Aug 03, 2019
First Action Plan to Curb Noise Pollution
The Delhi government came up with its first action plan to curb noise pollution in the city.
The plan comprises various measures such as identifying noise pollution hotspots in the city, procuring hand-held devices for the police as well as civic agencies to better monitor sound pollution, and installing noise mufflers and noise curtains at various industrial and construction sites, among others.
The responsibilities of various government agencies, such as the Delhi Police, civic agencies, Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. (DSIIDC) and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) were fixed. All the agencies have been given deadlines by when they have to accomplish their tasks.
According to the plan, all civic agencies would have to identify noise hotspots within their jurisdiction by September 2019. The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 would be strictly implemented in these areas, along with the silence zones. An area of 100 metres around schools, hospitals, courts and government offices has been designated as silence zone.
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