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ENVIRONMENT - August 2019

Aug 2019

Sep 16, 2021

Niti Aayog Launches 'Shoonya' Programme to Promote Zero-pollution Delivery Vehicles

Government think tank Niti Aayog and Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) launched an initiative to promote zero-pollution delivery vehicles by working with consumers and industry.
The campaign, Shoonya, aims to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in the urban deliveries segment and create consumer awareness about the benefits of zero-pollution delivery.
Initially, close to 30 companies including Mahindra Electric, Tata Motors, Zomato, Ashok Leyland, Sun Mobility, Lightning Logistics, Big Basket, Bluedart, Hero Electric, and Swiggy among others attended the kick-off meeting chaired by Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.
Subsequently, additional industry players will be invited to join the initiative.

Sep 15, 2021

India's Largest Open Air Fernery in Ranikhet

The country's largest open air fernery was inaugurated at Ranikhet in Uttarakhand's Almora district by well-known expert on ferns Nilambar Kunetha.
The fernery has been developed by the research wing of Uttarakhand Forest Department over a period of three years under the Centre's compensatory afforestation scheme CAMPA.
It has a collection of 120 different types of fern with only Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI), Thiruvananthapuram having a larger number of fern species.

Sep 14, 2021

Rain, Floods Killed 6,800 People in India in Last 3 yrs; Bengal Tops List

India has lost 6,811 people in the last three years to hydro-meteorological disasters such as heavy rain, lightning, flood and cyclones till March this year, according to government information to Parliament.
West Bengal topped the list of states with at least 964 such deaths, revealing the state's vulnerability to climate change. This means one in every seven such deaths were reported from the state between April 2018 and March 21, according to data placed in the Lok Sabha in August this year.
Madhya Pradesh came a close second with 917 deaths and Kerala was placed third with 708 deaths during the same period. Madhya Pradesh alone recorded 674 deaths in 2019-20, mostly due to floods. Data of some states like Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana and Bihar were missing for some years.

Sep 13, 2021

Scientists Unearth Prehistoric Winged Lizard in Chile

Chilean scientists have discovery the first-ever southern hemisphere remains of a type of Jurassic-era winged lizard known as a pterosaur.
Fossils of the dinosaur which lived some 160 million years ago were unearthed in what is today the Atacama Desert.
As per researcher Jhonatan Alarcon of the University of Chile, the creatures had a wingspan of up to two meters, a long tail, and pointed snout.

Sep 11, 2021

Iceland Creates Plant that Sucks Carbon Dioxide from Air and Turns it into Rock

The world's largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turning it into rock started running in Iceland.
The plant, named Orca, after the Icelandic word "orka" meaning "energy", consists of four units, each made up of two metal boxes, similar in appearance to the containers used for maritime transport.
Constructed by Switzerland's Climeworks and Iceland's Carbfix, when operating at capacity the plant will draw 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air every year, according to the companies.
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that equates to the emissions from about 870 cars.

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