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ENVIRONMENT - December 2018

Dec 2018

Nov 27, 2020

India to Achieve Target of Reducing 35 pc Emissions Intensity before 2030

According to Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, India will achieve its target of reducing 35 per cent emissions intensity of its GDP well before the year 2030. The minister made the remarks while signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Finland to develop cooperation between the two countries in the field of environment protection and biodiversity conservation.
The MoU was signed virtually by Javadekar and Finland's Environment Minister Krista Mikkonen.
India has achieved its voluntary target of reducing emissions intensity of its GDP by 21 per cent over 2005 levels by 2020.
Emission intensity is the volume of emissions per unit of GDP.

Nov 26, 2020

Antrim Dinosaur Bones Belong to Different Species

The only dinosaur bones ever found in Ireland have been confirmed to belong to two different species.
The bones were previously discovered on the east coast of County Antrim.
But a new scientific study from the universities of Portsmouth and Queen's in Belfast has confirmed the origins of the bones for the first time.
One is part of the lower leg bone of a carnivore similar to Sarcosaurus; the other is from the upper leg bone of a Scelidosaurus, a four-legged herbivore.
The two fossil bones, confirmed to be from early Jurassic rocks, were discovered in Islandmagee during two separate finds in the late 19th Century and the 1980s.

Nov 25, 2020

Drying Habitat Makes Australia's Platypus Vulnerable

Australian scientists pushed to list the platypus as a vulnerable species after a report showed the habitat of the semi-aquatic native mammal had shrunk more than a fifth in the last 30 years.
Severe drought brought by climate change, land clearing for farming and dam-building are to blame.
According to Richard Kingsford, director of the university's Centre for Ecosystem Science, there is a real concern that platypus populations will disappear from some of our rivers without returning, if rivers keep degrading with droughts and dams.
The animals, unique to Australia, cannot live outside water, and as the continent dries further and people draw more water from rivers, some permanent pools could get even smaller.

Nov 23, 2020

India to Soon Launch Deep Sea

According to a top official of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, India will soon launch an ambitious 'Deep Ocean Mission' that envisages the exploration of minerals, energy and marine diversity of the underwater world, a vast part of which still remains unexplored.
The required approvals are being obtained for the futuristic and game-changing mission.
The mission is expected to cost over Rs. 4,000 crore, will give a boost to efforts to explore India's vast Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf.

Nov 22, 2020

Sentinel-6: 'Dog Kennel' Satellite to Measure Sea-level Rise

A satellite that will be critical to understanding of climate change was launched from California.
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will become the primary means of measuring the shape of the world's oceans.
Its data will track not only sea-level rise but reveal how the great mass of waters are moving around the globe.
The Sentinel is a joint endeavour between Europe and the US, and will continue the measurements that have been made by a succession of spacecraft, called the Jason-Topex/Poseidon series, going back to 1992.
These earlier missions have shown unequivocally that sea levels globally are rising, at a rate in excess of 3 mm per year over the 28-year period. And their most recent data even suggests there is acceleration under way, with levels recorded as going up at over 4 mm per year.

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