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ENVIRONMENT - December 2018

Dec 2018

Oct 17, 2020

October Downpour Sees UK's Wettest Day on Record

October 2020 saw the wettest day for UK-wide rainfall since records began in 1891.
The downpour followed in the wake of Storm Alex and saw an average of 31.7mm (1.24ins) of rain across the entire UK.
The deluge was enough to exceed the capacity of Loch Ness - the largest lake in the UK by volume - the researchers added.
The previous record wettest day was in August 1986.
It has been a year of stark contrasts across the UK when it comes to rainfall.
Two named storms, Ciara and Dennis, helped push February to the top of the records as the wettest ever in the UK.
This was followed by a very dry and bright spring that saw May break the record for sunniest calendar month with 266 hours of sunshine.
But a middling summer has been followed by a drenching autumn across much of the UK.

Oct 16, 2020

Asan Conservation Reserve becomes Uttarakhand's first Ramsar site

Asan Conservation Reserve has become Uttarakhand's first Ramsar site, making it a 'Wetland of International Importance', announced the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
The Reserve is located on the banks of Yamuna river near Dehradun district in Garhwal region of the Himalayan state.
Ramsar declares Asan Conservation Reserve as a site of international importance. With this, the number of Ramsar sites in India goes up to 38, the highest in South Asia and Uttarakhand gets its first Ramsar site

Oct 15, 2020

Great Barrier Reef Might Lose Ability to Recover from Warming

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half its coral in the last three decades and scientists fear the loss caused by frequent bleaching will compromise its ability to recover.
Record-breaking temperatures that triggered bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 have meant fewer small, baby corals and breeding adult ones.
That means the resilience of the reef, its ability to bounce back from recurrent mass bleaching events, has been compromised.

Oct 14, 2020

Pernod Ricard India Foundation and WWF India Aim to Conserve Asian Elephant

Pernod Ricard India Foundation and WWF India aim to conserve the Asian elephant through effective human-elephant conflict management in Assam.
The project will work across 150 villages in Kamrup, Sonitpur, Biswanath, and Nagaon districts and train community members on effective situation management by developing a toolkit and forming anti-depredation squads, which would help them protect their property, crops, and lives.
The project will build on WWF India's experience on human-elephant conflict management in Assam, developed over the last two decades.

Oct 13, 2020

Exotic Dragon Fruit Gets Added to Anantapur Basket

The first-ever commercial crop of the exotic dragon fruit is being harvested at the farm of Gutty Narayana Reddy, a progressive farmer from Kuragani Palli in Narpala mandal of Anantapur district.
This will be yet another prestigious addition to the fruit bowl of Andhra Pradesh with the best quality of bananas, sweet lime, papaya, mangoes, pomegranates, grapes, watermelon, musk melon and fig (anjeer), already getting exported from the district.

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